This weekend the entire family spent Sunday morning volunteering at the Southern California Special Olympics Regional event at Cal State Long Beach. The best part (other than the popcorn), was that we were volunteer fans at the basketball events in the big blue Pyramid. We see the Pyramid almost every day as we drive around the East Side of Long Beach, but we rarely get to go inside. It is huge! Christopher and I were very impressed with the practice courts where they had three different basketball games going at the same time, because they had the giant bleachers raised to the ceiling. The last time I had been there we sat on the bleachers for the game. This time, they were standing up on their sides. It was a great event and we did our best to cheer for the basketball players and track athletes.
Another one of our current passions is to watch roller coaster movies on the computer, draw, and then build them in the backyard. Christopher has mastered the sound effects of the roller coasters at Knott's Berry Farm and will sometimes stand in the backyard or living room and make the sounds of people screaming as he traces the path of the roller coaster in the air with his hands. This has become a fight between he and I because I can only take so much of the screaming before I hit him and get sent to time out. Our favorite is the Wind Seeker, the new $5 million ride at Knott's. We are not allowed to go on it, but our fascination with the ride and the videos available online has become borderline obsession.
We also get into many fights these days over building roller coasters in the backyard using irrigation tubing and garden stakes. Essentially, the tubing is perfect for roller coaster building because it naturally curls into a cork screw. We use the stakes in the grass to shape it and hold it down. The biggest challenge now is finding the stakes after we have planted them into the ground. They get lost so easily in the grass and will either end up puncturing the water slide when it is blown up or breaking someone's toe when we are running around the yard bare foot.
This weekend the entire family spent Sunday morning volunteering at the Southern California Special Olympics Regional event at Cal State Long Beach. The best part (other than the popcorn), was that we were volunteer fans at the basketball events in the big blue Pyramid. We see the Pyramid almost every day as we drive around the East Side of Long Beach, but we rarely get to go inside. It is huge! Christopher and I were very impressed with the practice courts where they had three different basketball games going at the same time, because they had the giant bleachers raised to the ceiling. The last time I had been there we sat on the bleachers for the game. This time, they were standing up on their sides. It was a great event and we did our best to cheer for the basketball players and track athletes.
Another one of our current passions is to watch roller coaster movies on the computer, draw, and then build them in the backyard. Christopher has mastered the sound effects of the roller coasters at Knott's Berry Farm and will sometimes stand in the backyard or living room and make the sounds of people screaming as he traces the path of the roller coaster in the air with his hands. This has become a fight between he and I because I can only take so much of the screaming before I hit him and get sent to time out. Our favorite is the Wind Seeker, the new $5 million ride at Knott's. We are not allowed to go on it, but our fascination with the ride and the videos available online has become borderline obsession.
We also get into many fights these days over building roller coasters in the backyard using irrigation tubing and garden stakes. Essentially, the tubing is perfect for roller coaster building because it naturally curls into a cork screw. We use the stakes in the grass to shape it and hold it down. The biggest challenge now is finding the stakes after we have planted them into the ground. They get lost so easily in the grass and will either end up puncturing the water slide when it is blown up or breaking someone's toe when we are running around the yard bare foot.
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