While Janelle was at work (getting trained as a gas station attendant) today, the boys and I supplemented our normal Saturday trip (dump, post office, and sometimes library and shopping) by going to the Winter Games held at the Soldotna Sports Center. The event was created to give children something to celebrate in the middle of winter.
Sponsored by local businesses, families are provided with free corn dogs, chips, apples, oranges, pop or water, hot cocoa, and icy pops. I personally avoided the cocoa, pop, and icy pops, but still heaped a few too many carbs into my daily diet (I didn't succeed in resisting the second corn dog or the sour cream and onion chips). Events included a hayride (which Rowen originally resisted, but then gave his "thumbs up" approval), ice sleds, archery, a bouncy house (which only Rowen could enter, and he did so hesitantly), bingo, a scavenger hunt, engineering with spaghetti and marshmallows, and toy helicopter building. They didn't have enough hammers for the last, so we took the kits home to complete them (mine was the only thumb injured in the process). The boys also each received gift bags with a variety kid-appropriate goodies.
We ran into no fewer than four of my coworkers as well as a couple families from church and a number of my students, so I got to show off my boys several times. I also received my severance check from Lincoln this week, and was kissed by a beautiful gas station attendant. So I had a pretty good day too.
Sponsored by local businesses, families are provided with free corn dogs, chips, apples, oranges, pop or water, hot cocoa, and icy pops. I personally avoided the cocoa, pop, and icy pops, but still heaped a few too many carbs into my daily diet (I didn't succeed in resisting the second corn dog or the sour cream and onion chips). Events included a hayride (which Rowen originally resisted, but then gave his "thumbs up" approval), ice sleds, archery, a bouncy house (which only Rowen could enter, and he did so hesitantly), bingo, a scavenger hunt, engineering with spaghetti and marshmallows, and toy helicopter building. They didn't have enough hammers for the last, so we took the kits home to complete them (mine was the only thumb injured in the process). The boys also each received gift bags with a variety kid-appropriate goodies.
We ran into no fewer than four of my coworkers as well as a couple families from church and a number of my students, so I got to show off my boys several times. I also received my severance check from Lincoln this week, and was kissed by a beautiful gas station attendant. So I had a pretty good day too.
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