Adventure Day
Child #1 and I left the house at 7:45 am to pick up Child #2 (who decided last night @8 she wanted to spend the night elsewhere). After picking her up we set off for the beach. I have to say, I LOVE this Garmin. I am no longer afraid of getting lost because it WONT let me! HA! So I punch in the address and half an hour later Child #2 says "I gotta pee." Geeeez. So we pull off and the only thing I can find is a grocery store. Turns out it was a stroke of good luck.......theres a STARBUCKS inside. Jesus does love me. Hehe.
Back on the road. This is an 80 mile trip. One way. Ok, so we make it to the beach around 10. Its lovely, just the way I remember it.......until we actually get ON the beach. Holy Mack, its FREEZING. The wind is whipping and its just not sunny enough to balance the two out. Cold. Child #2 could care less. She swims and digs in the sand and frolics (and turns several shades of blue....."Nuh Uh MahM, I'm REALLY warm, I swear.") Meanwhile Child #1 and I huddle on the beach, trying to keep warm. I find out one picture into the trip that my batteries are dead. Grrrrr. I end up having to spend 3.99 for crappy 7-11 batteries. So, we leave the beach around 11:30.
She's the speck in the center. And the one dead asleep 5 minutes after leaving.
We stop at Wendys because Child #1 is chanting "hamburger" incessently. 10 bucks later we leave.
The Pungo Strawberry Festival sounded like a little thing, I mean they advertised it going from 12-2pm. Christ I thought when we got there it would be shutting down. I was mistaken. HUGE. Seriously huge. We parked, for 5 dollars (ripoff) and walked down the crowded road. You absolutely can not get the sheer magnitude of this thing from my pictures.
I'm only 5'3" so I take my crowd shots by holding the camera as high up as I can and shooting. There was funnel cakes, fried twinkies, every type of fried potato you can dream of, BBQ, corn, ice cream, gyros, FISH (uh, fish? ewww), lemonade out the whazoo, cotton candy, sno-cones, meat of every persuasion and strawberries on EVERYTHING. This was like a giant yard sale/thrift store/folk art sale/biker rally/music fest/ food extravaganza. Wow. Oh man and that was just the first half-mile.
There was at least 4 band stands.
Of course Child #2's tongue was lolling out of her mouth (Mahm, it loooooks soooo goooood. Plah-eeeezzzzz. Just one funnel cake. PLEEEEEZZZZZZ.) Uh, dammit. No, I stood my ground with reasoning. Honey, its all fat and calories and you know you arent really hungry, we just ate, blah blah blah. So we bought a corn. Man was it GOOD! Very sweet and the kernals popped when you bit it. Worth all 3 bucks. Kept her busy so she didnt think about the other junk. Joe would have been in hog heaven if he had been there.
We walked and walked and walked and I really thought it may go on forever. Jewelry, handbags, wooden crafts, tattoos sprayed on by carnies( either carnies or hillbillies), airbrush t-shirts, organic foods, skateboards (alittle out of place), and tons of clothes. In the distance I hear canival music.....huh......the tinkle of a carosel.....oh crap. On the left hand side of the street emerges a FAIR.......over-priced and gaudily-lit.........suddenly my kids eyes lit up and they became possessed. CARN-I-VALLLLLLL......MAHM!!!
Shit. I turn around and slowly start walking back the way we came. I HATE those fucking death-traps. Not only are they hastily thrown up but theyre run by morons. So now I have to defend myself from Child #2 who is mezmerized by theblinky lights. I point to the ticket booth, "Tickets cost 1 buck a piece. Do you have a dollar?" I look her in the eye. "Yeah, I do." She smiles, thinking she has just out-smarted me. I point to the first ride I see. "5 tickets per ride. I pause. You got 5 dollars?" Her face dissolves and although I feel bad, its a lesson that has to be taught. Five bucks for 30 seconds on that rickety ride. Does that seem like a good deal to you? She shakes her head. We leave the area. Dammit. Stupid carnival.
She didnt bother to ask me to do this. She knows I'm not very likely to humiliate myself in front of so many people, at least not without a few drinks. We stood and watched 5 or 6 people eat the mat. No one could manage to hang on longer than a few seconds. Keep in mind, you're PAYING to get on this thing. Idiots, HA!
We hobbled back to the car. I ended up impulsively buying 10 dollars worth of fresh strawberries......very good by the way. We sucked a few down walking back to the car. Getting home was faster (it seemed) and we pulled in around 5:30 pm. I found gas for $3.69 on the way home so I filled up. The station by my house is up to $3.90. I hate gas.
Anyway, that was it. Oh, I failed to mention that we all got severely sunburnt too. My fault. Once they bathed I hit them with the aloe so hopefully tomorrow they wont be so red.
My weight this morning: 145......huh? weird.
Breakfast: a Venti Latte
Lunch: crispy chicken sandwich, plain......ketchup, honey/mustard
Snack: 6 strawberries
Dinner: 1 cup salad with tomato, honey mustard dressing, handful of chex mix, strawberries (8), Lite Cool Whip
Snack: Popcorn
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment