SOAKED

We drove up to my Mom's house to see Sandra and her boyfriend who are visiting from Germany. They're our friends from when we were young and going to school in Bielefeld.

Mutti spent some time peeling corn on the cob while Jamie made some garlic bread, Becky made her yummy fruit salad with fruit dip and Hagen grilled steak, chicken, shrimp and bratwurst.

I skated around in the driveway for a bit on my old skateboard. 
I got this board for one of my birthdays in Germany.
Frauke didn't want to play. 
She was wearing a new shirt and didn't want the water to stain it. 

She should've come up with a better excuse... I got her anyway.
The food was good.
The kids spent most of the day in the sandbox. They loved it.

Axel wasn't wearing a brand new shirt.
After getting Axel the fight was on.


Hagen ruined my shirt.


Then this little kid from down the street showed up. Kid, you just walked into the wrong part of town.
Axel thought the kid could be trusted. He felt bad that Hagen got him wet so he gave the kid one of our water cannons and filled it for him.

Then the kid turned on him and let him have it.
It was hilarious.
Hagen thought it was funny that he was the only one who wasn't wet.





I think I got it the most out of everybody. I was soaked.


It was a blast and thanks to Mutti for shooting pictures of the fun.

WALL-E and Optimus

Today I spent the day with Emily and Parker while Becky served as an usher at the temple open house. We stopped at Target first to look at the new Transformers for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Alphagraphics gave me a Target gift card to say thank you for all the business I send their way. We had fun until we noticed that Parker was missing his favorite sunglasses. He was really sad and I felt bad. It reminded me of when I lost my favorite sunglasses in Disneyland.

After comforting Parker we went to the Army/Navy store to get a treasure chest for Emily. She wanted a big one at first but I convinced her to get something a little smaller.
Emily had a $3.00 gift card to Toys 'R' Us so we went there next. They have a giant remote control WALL-E.

Smart? This sounds very familiar. I remember Kyle Reese saying, "They got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then they saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination." Then John Connor learns from the Terminator sent back in time to protect him that Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. When it becomes self-aware it spreads into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It's software; in cyberspace. There's no system core; it can not be shutdown. Judgment Day, the day the human race will almost be destroyed by the WALL-Es they built to play with. It's all going to start at Toys 'R' Us. 

James Cameron wasn't just making an awesome science fiction movie. He knows the future and he was using his movies as a warning. WALL-E looks cute but he's just the beginning of the Terminators that are going to eventually turn on us. You might want to load up on ammunition, magma and liquid nitrogen just in case.
While we were there I met up with my friend Chris, who is one of the original crew that still works there. I told him about Skynet and he immediately threw WALL-E in the trash compactor and then dumped the scraps into the magma vat in the back of the building.

After doing everything we could to prevent Judgment Day he hooked me up with the newest Hot Wheels and a Treasure Hunt car. Awesome!
It was a great day to be out and about. Great clouds.



Here are the Transformers that the kids bought with their saved money. Emily bought Knock Out.

Parker bought Robot Heroes. Megatron and Autobot Skids.

This is the Trea$ure Hunt car.


Here's the Optimus Prime Daddy bought. 

He lights up and says, "I am Optimus Prime."

Objects may appear bigger than they are

Today Jeff took charge of getting several balloons attached to the roof of the Megaplex 17 to promote Disney/Pixar's UP which opens tomorrow. Seeing the balloons on the ground made us think is was going to be pretty cool. Although once the balloons were on the roof it was a different story.

It reminds me of when they hung that IMAX banner on the side of the theatre.