Dum-de-dum-da dadada-dum-de-dum-de-dum-da dadadada....

My mom got a new LAN line phone. It sings, and talks to you. It just rang. I set the song to that organization of dees, a's, yous, ees, and ems that you saw earlier. Also the hyphens. It's apart of the song. Weird.

Anyway, I've been watching the Olympics often. I always seem to get stuck watching volleyball. I've discovered sand volleyball is much more exciting than the normal court kind. It's faster first of all, and they make more exciting plays more often. Plus playing in the sand is just really hard.

I've still just been watching the kids up at the Jones' house. Nothing all that exciting, although a couple of weeks ago we went power tumbling. Everyone had a lot of fun, and Cameron even stopped by. Although he didn't do anything the entire time he was there. He opted for just sitting on the sidelines. It was funny though because he got to watch everyone, so he was telling me all the observations that I missed because I was busy throwing kids into the foam pit.

Last week wasn't all that exciting. I can't really remember anything in particular that happened to report. So far this week, though, I've been swimming and to Lagoon. It was Steph's birthday on Monday, and she chose to go to Lagoon with the family. It was crowded - there were a lot of lines in most to all of the rides. I went on all of the exciting ones that I like, like Wicked. I also went on Spider for the first time. That one is awesome! I've never been before, and I don't know why we didn't go last time we went. When we first got to the park, Nathan and I broke off from Richard, Kevin, and Stephany. Our first ride was the White Rollercoaster. Nathan said he wanted to get used to it, so immediately after that I took him on Wicked. That one is still very awesome. I can't really remember the other ones we went on after that, mostly what stood out in my mind was The Bat (sucked), Rocket (hurts), Wicked (still fun), and Spider (also fun). They need to smooth out the track to The Bat or something, because every turn felt like the White Rollercoaster. I also felt like I was going to hit my feet on everything that came by.

We met up with Torie after at about 7:00, when I was already incredibly tired. I took some motion sickness pills - those seemed to help a lot. I began to wonder if it was because of the pills that I was getting so tired. I couldn't tell. I also have these weird wristbands that are supposed to help with the motion sickness. I couldn't tell if it was those that worked, or the pills. Either way, I felt better than I usually do after coming home from a theme park.

Why do they call it a theme park anyway? What's the theme to Lagoon? Rollercoasters? That's kind of lame theme, because there're a lot of other "theme" parks in the world with the same theme! Technically a normal park could be called a theme park. The theme to a normal park is recreational activity. A parking lot could also be called a theme park. The point to the theme is to park. That's about the same thing.

Uhm... Anyway.

I met up with Torie first at Rocket. I tried to make Nathan go on it, but as he got closer and noticed how incredibly high up it was, it started to make him sick. I thought it was really funny, but he ended up not going on it. He said while he was waiting for us he was holding back some stomach acid burps. So it's good he didn't end up going on it, because I'm sure we would've gone vomit chasing. After that we met up with Linda and Steph waiting in the Wicked line. I kind of wanted to stay with Linda to watch he reaction as we went on Wicked, but also liked sticking with Torie. So I decided to follow Torie and her family and go to Rattlesnake (I just wrote Rattlesnack. What kind of ride would that be? :D) Rapids. At like 8:45 PM. It was cold! But, still pretty fun. Torie's dad stayed with the littler kids, and the rest of the family went on the ride. I thought it was funny how everytime Torie's parents started to come near, she'd let go of my hand. It happened like four times. I also thought it was funny how if I'd been near Torie at all, her dad wouldn't look me in the eye to talk to me. Not like we talked much at all anyway, but the couple of times did, he still wouldn't.

Anyway, so after (I also just wrote fat. I'm not quite so sure what my fingers are doing...) Rattlesnack Rapids we did... something else. At some point we ended up going to Spider. It's a spinning... twirly, twisty... always moving and dropping very fun ride. That first hill got me both times - we went on it twice because when we got off the first time we checked the line to Wicked and found it to be closed. The first time we were facing forward as we exited the gate. The second time we weren't, and that wasn't as much fun. Chelsea said she didn't like it, but enjoyed it more the second time as she was facing forwards. I think it's just more fun in general if you get to face forwards. That was my exciting Lagoon trip, anyway. At least as much as I can remember. I'm looking forward to going to Frightmares in a couple of months.

The next day was Linda's birthday, so for that we went swimming. I don't think she had ever been, and it was fun to have a little more company there. It's usually just me and the kids, so to see Annie and Susanne with Linda there also was pretty fun. Once Torie and Chelsea got off work they stuck around and played around with us. That was a lot of fun! I haven't been dunked since Mandi was here when we ran into Ashley at the pool. They dunk nice, though. Except for when Torie splashed me. I think a full cup of water went straight into my eyeball. I was getting pretty good at keeping my ground, too, except for when we were in the lazy river. That's when I got dunked the most. After that I went home and bummed around for a while.

But speaking of bumming around, I've discovered a gaming thing online called GameTap. I know it's not new nor very unknown, but I always thought it was just a stupid collection of lame games that were put onto a database online. Wrong! I've been playing it like a fiend. I want to sign up for Gold Membership - there are a lot of games that I really want to play and haven't had the opportunity to. I need to find a credit card, though. Or a PayPal membership. I'll give you a dollar, because that's all it costs! :D Feeeed my addiction!

School also starts today for everyone else. I think it's funny watching everyone else go back to school, but knowing that I don't have to prepare for something like that. Not this year, anway! I still get to watch the kids, but I just don't have to be up there until later in the day. Which means like, two hours. I haven't strangled any of them yet, too! Goal achieved!

I've been hearing from Chris and Jessica, too. They're still doing great and learning the language really well. Chris seems like he has been doing wonderfully at it - something I was wondering about considering how unwell he was doing at it in high school. 63 days left for me!

'til next time. :D

(I'm not listening to any music! Oh no! Still watching the Olympics. Volleyball: USA-2 Serbia-2. Tie-breaker match!)