...Let The Good Times ROCK and Roll

Saturday

December 27, 2008

San Diego, California

Suggestion #1:

While staying at the beach

start each day,

as much as possible,

with a walk along the waves...

...and pose daintily on the rocks.

Then get busy using the San Diego Go Card

using-doing-seeing

all the

museums-sights-attractions.

Stop #1?

Why, the Museum of Making Music, of course.

After going through the museum

and learning all sorts of things

there was a room in which to

play around with instrument

quietly.

Jake on the silent cello

Sam silently spinning and scratching

(That's what you're supposed to do; notice John Denver in the background. 

Yes, John, it has come to this.)

Abbie on the silent violin

Nick and Fred on the not-so-silent guitars

It was fun. It was educational.

***************

I have a few regrets as a mother.

Some weigh more heavily on my heart than others.

One of the heavy regrets I have carried

all these many years

was finally made right yesterday.

Unfortunately I am about

14 (+/-) years late.

But the important thing is that I have made it right.

We finally took our sons...

...to Legoland.

We needed more time, but the essence of the experience was good.

Even Abbie got into it here

...and there.

But she would NOT get into it here...

...but all the boys did.

And were willing to wait in quite a line

for the experience,

short, fast, but thrilling,

I'm sure.

So we're walking along, it is starting to get dark

and cold,

and we come to a most curious ride

which immediately captured everyone's

Lego imagination.

It had something to do with a dragon

and being captured in one of it's claw-like grips

and being swung all over the place.

And it was hilarious to watch!

They all went back for seconds.

Unfortunately, we didn't go to

Mini Land, USA

until it was dark and it was a little hard to see it all.

But it was pretty impressive nonetheless.

Sam back in DC

Abbie embracing Shakespeare

(I'll have to remind her of this if she complains about reading our next play.)

Abbie in front of the Capitol Building.

Pretty amazing that it is all Lego-built.

I may have been late getting the older three boys to LegoLand

but Jake is on the LegoLedge

and still enjoys Bionicle.

So we ended the night in Bionicle-imagination-land

everyone using their imagination

putting together pieces to create a

something-or-another.

So. Okay. Whew.

Now I can check that mothering-thing

off my list.