Yesterday I drove down to my four-year-old niece’s birthday party. My brother and sister-in-law pretty much rocked it out for a kid’s birthday party. It was about 95 degrees but the kids had a two pools (with slides), one squiggly water hose thingie, a giant beach ball that also shot water out of it and a blowup moonbounce. Occasionally I would venture out of the protection of the two tents erected for the adults, but a quick trip back was always in order; it was too bloody hot. So while the kids ran around and had fun, I think most of the adults enjoyed the shade and the ice water and sodas.

In between the cake & ice cream and the bbq that was to happen later I scooted down the road to visit my aunt & grandparents. My 85 (?) year old grandfather has been having some anxiety attacks recently so I wanted to spend some time with them, even if we did just chat over the television and make fun of the spaghetti western that was showing.

Later back at the party the bbq was getting worked out in full force. And the beers came out too. That’ll beat the heat! Then the most fun part of the day (selfish) happened when my brother told me they had a Wii! You mean we were outside in the heat all day and we could have been inside in the aircon Wiiing? We played with Mario Kart (they had several steering wheels) and some bowling with the kids. They had a bunch of other games, too, I hear the tennis is really fun. I think I need to plan a Wiikend to go down there and overload on all the video games.