Weekend Wrap-Up

Another busy weekend was enjoyed by all at Casa De La Crazy. Our neices stayed with us for a few days as Mommy was in Napa and Daddy got a break. In the past 6 months, their mommy has been to New York City, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and now Napa for a little spa time and wine tasting. Granted, I went to NYC with her but I think the rest of it is a touch excessive don't you all?

I had asked the girls ahead of time what they wanted to do and both said bowling and roller skating. Being the awesome auntie that I am, I delivered. Bowling with the bumpers up is awesome! There is nothing more fun than getting beat by a three year old! My 3 old was ahead for a good amount of the game and then my friend's 3 and 5 year old took the lead and won. Everyone had a great time....roller skating is another story.

Our first hint of what was to come should have been the fact that there was a police officer standing inside the doorway as we walked in via the metal detector. Our innocent little neices didn't even know what the metal detector was but they knew they saw a police officer and were starting to wonder (as was I looking wide-eyed at my husband who plays hockey at this establishment every Wednesday night until 12am) what they were getting into. There were plenty of tweens there so I thought it couldn't be that bad could it?...I realized when we were inside that there were probably 4 parents there and we made up half of the parental force. Okay, so the next hour was spent trying to convince my soon-to-be 9 year old neice, who IS having a roller skating birthday party next week, to get out on the floor and give it a try. She kept insisiting that it was the skates so we tried three different pairs on to see if that helped. First, she didn't like the quad skates and needed inline...well, the inline didn't really fit right so we needed to get the quad skates again...Finally, we think we have the right pair on and we're headed to the skating floor and then, of course, she has to go to the bathroom. I kid you not - this was an hour after we got there. Now I don't know about all of you, but back in the day when we went roller skating we had our cool red striped shorts or Jordache jeans and rainbow shirts on and were jazzed by the fact that the white part of our clothing glowed when the black light was on. We skated for hours on end to K.C. and the Sunshine band or Shaun Cassidy and tried to "shoot the duck" and/or worried about who we were going to skate with when the "snowball" sign lit up...Remember? My neices will have this awesome memory of their skating childhood... I have my 8 and 10 year old, catholic-school-going, little neices with me as we try to push our way through a gang of girls in the bathroom, sobbing and reapplying make-up to their 11 year old faces, because some other girls just threw a few punches out on the rink. They were plotting how they were going to &*!#$%! get those &*!#$%$^ back etc... one of my neices counted the number of swear words she heard in that conversation...I think we left it at 10 in one sentence. 10 year old kids were out on the floor pushing other kids down as they were skating and then would skate up behind other kids and pull those poor kids pants down. Gone was the idyllic shoot-the-duck contest only to be replaced by a speed skating competition with kids flying around the rink, pushing each other down and crashing on the floor. Good times... Needless to say, I think we went around the rink once and then were out of there. It was $30 well spent I would say! The rest of their time was luckily uneventful and fun.

We bid adieu to the girls on Saturday afternoon and then had a fun evening out with our friends that night. It has been quite some time since we have closed a place down on a Saturday evening. We were having so much fun that we didn't even notice that we were the last ones in the place. No wonder our waiter and the bussing staff kept looking at us so anxiously...they even told us not to worry about paying for the last minute port and coffee that we ordered...through gritted teeth we were told "no problem" which traslates to "just get the hell out.."

Brunch Sunday with a friend and a brother-in-laws bday celebration Sunday night wrapped-up a fun and busy weekend.