Fairyland:
This weekend we were very busy with many different activities, one of them being a trip to a place called Fairy Land. First off, Fairyland is in Oakland and everyone knows or at least assumes that Oakland is where the crime is. But surprisingly enough when we got there it was in a really nice area, or so we thought (I’ll come back to that later). We parked and were happy to use our free tickets from a raffle through Reggie’s school last year. Once we were in, we started to look around at what there was and the first thing that popped into my mind was ghetto amusement park! There were all of these random attractions/scenes from really old childhood books and stories that we really didn’t recognize like Willy the Whale? As Trina and I we’re walking around scratching our heads, the kids were running around jumping and playing on everything.. They absolutely loved it! That had tunnels, slides, a ferris wheel, merry-go-round, and a trolley train you could ride on. Not to mention they had a couple of different pirate ships that you could climb on. You would think that with all of these things and with a puppet theatre, we would spend all day there. Wrong, we blazed through the entire park in roughly an hour and a half, so it was good the tickets were free. One of the highlights was when Ainsley hopped on the ferris-wheel all by herself because Reggie didn’t want to have anything to do with it… She’s a brave little girl sometimes. After playing at the park we went down to a lake that was really close and had a picnic. There were people jogging, kayaking, and enjoying the sunshine. As we were eating our sandwiches, we watched a lady get pooped on by one of the 100 seagulls that we’re swarming us for our food. The kids couldn’t get enough of that entertainment as they were looking for all of the poop spots on her. Then, we were being stalked by one seagull in particular as he was scaring off any other bird within a 10 feet radius from us. If we we’re going to drop any food, he was going to be the one to grab it. And you could tell as he was twice as fat as any of the other birds. Trina was starting to get irritated with the bird so she started feeding the other birds when the mean bird wasn’t watching. But this created a different problem and now we had all of the seagulls in the park at our feet. They finally went away and we headed back to the car so that we could get back home for Ainsley’s nap. Remember how I was telling you that this seemed to be in a nice area. Well I asked one of my employees about the niceness of it because he lives in Oakland and he began to tell me that he really doesn’t hang out down there as there we’re 14 muggings/robberies just not too long ago by a guy that was carrying a knife. Glad we got out of there alive!
Same day (bounce house adventure)
After recovering from the Fairyland adventure, we headed northeast to Brentwood (20 miles from us) to pick up a new Thomas the Train bounce house. You see when Riley starting getting really sick he decided to use our bounce house as his litter box! No poopies but he urinated all over that thing. We even thought at first that we had a leak in the roof as it was everywhere. But the smell was not adding up to that theory and finally Trina caught him with his pants down as she saw him relieving himself. Needless to say that bounce house is in the landfill somewhere and that is the reason for the new one. Anyhow, one big bonus for going out to Brentwood to pick up the bounce house was that there was a Taco del Mar there. We have withdrawals for Taco del Mar because there aren’t any located near us. So any chance we get to hit one we’re all over it. And this was no exception because Trina has been craving it for weeks…. Bless her heart, she has cut out all sweets for lent this season so any chance she has to treat herself with something other than sugar is a blessing. So we picked up the bounce house (it was like brand new & the kids tested it out in their front lawn just to make sure). We then headed to Taco Del Mar and as we were pulling up Trina says “it looks pretty dark in there, do you think it’s closed?” Of course I’m Mr. Optimistic, stating that no it can’t be closed. And whamo bamo, CLOSED ON SUNDAYS!! She was crushed!! She had been saving herself all day, only to be let down… We did however see a Red Robin just down the street so we ate dinner there and everyone was happy.. We got home late (7PM) and the kids had to test it out again so we set it up in the house.. Check out these two crazy kids enjoying the jumper. Oh how I love to hear them laugh.
This weekend we were very busy with many different activities, one of them being a trip to a place called Fairy Land. First off, Fairyland is in Oakland and everyone knows or at least assumes that Oakland is where the crime is. But surprisingly enough when we got there it was in a really nice area, or so we thought (I’ll come back to that later). We parked and were happy to use our free tickets from a raffle through Reggie’s school last year. Once we were in, we started to look around at what there was and the first thing that popped into my mind was ghetto amusement park! There were all of these random attractions/scenes from really old childhood books and stories that we really didn’t recognize like Willy the Whale? As Trina and I we’re walking around scratching our heads, the kids were running around jumping and playing on everything.. They absolutely loved it! That had tunnels, slides, a ferris wheel, merry-go-round, and a trolley train you could ride on. Not to mention they had a couple of different pirate ships that you could climb on. You would think that with all of these things and with a puppet theatre, we would spend all day there. Wrong, we blazed through the entire park in roughly an hour and a half, so it was good the tickets were free. One of the highlights was when Ainsley hopped on the ferris-wheel all by herself because Reggie didn’t want to have anything to do with it… She’s a brave little girl sometimes. After playing at the park we went down to a lake that was really close and had a picnic. There were people jogging, kayaking, and enjoying the sunshine. As we were eating our sandwiches, we watched a lady get pooped on by one of the 100 seagulls that we’re swarming us for our food. The kids couldn’t get enough of that entertainment as they were looking for all of the poop spots on her. Then, we were being stalked by one seagull in particular as he was scaring off any other bird within a 10 feet radius from us. If we we’re going to drop any food, he was going to be the one to grab it. And you could tell as he was twice as fat as any of the other birds. Trina was starting to get irritated with the bird so she started feeding the other birds when the mean bird wasn’t watching. But this created a different problem and now we had all of the seagulls in the park at our feet. They finally went away and we headed back to the car so that we could get back home for Ainsley’s nap. Remember how I was telling you that this seemed to be in a nice area. Well I asked one of my employees about the niceness of it because he lives in Oakland and he began to tell me that he really doesn’t hang out down there as there we’re 14 muggings/robberies just not too long ago by a guy that was carrying a knife. Glad we got out of there alive!
Same day (bounce house adventure)After recovering from the Fairyland adventure, we headed northeast to Brentwood (20 miles from us) to pick up a new Thomas the Train bounce house. You see when Riley starting getting really sick he decided to use our bounce house as his litter box! No poopies but he urinated all over that thing. We even thought at first that we had a leak in the roof as it was everywhere. But the smell was not adding up to that theory and finally Trina caught him with his pants down as she saw him relieving himself. Needless to say that bounce house is in the landfill somewhere and that is the reason for the new one. Anyhow, one big bonus for going out to Brentwood to pick up the bounce house was that there was a Taco del Mar there. We have withdrawals for Taco del Mar because there aren’t any located near us. So any chance we get to hit one we’re all over it. And this was no exception because Trina has been craving it for weeks…. Bless her heart, she has cut out all sweets for lent this season so any chance she has to treat herself with something other than sugar is a blessing. So we picked up the bounce house (it was like brand new & the kids tested it out in their front lawn just to make sure). We then headed to Taco Del Mar and as we were pulling up Trina says “it looks pretty dark in there, do you think it’s closed?” Of course I’m Mr. Optimistic, stating that no it can’t be closed. And whamo bamo, CLOSED ON SUNDAYS!! She was crushed!! She had been saving herself all day, only to be let down… We did however see a Red Robin just down the street so we ate dinner there and everyone was happy.. We got home late (7PM) and the kids had to test it out again so we set it up in the house.. Check out these two crazy kids enjoying the jumper. Oh how I love to hear them laugh.
They go in this several times a day!
1 comment:
Thanks for the update! I can't believe how big the kids are! Spring is beginning to emerge here in Oregon. Maybe we can come out of our holes too! Happy Spring and tell everyone hello!
Monique
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