Willie and Teddy's Excellent Adventure: 2/24/2008

Willie and Teddy's Excellent Adventure

Willie
and Teddy's Excellent Adventure

We can't believe Mid-Winter break is over, how did it go so fast?? We think breaks should be longer and school weeks should be shorter.

We tried to stay in our pajamas the entire time and just play with our legos and Bionicles and occasional computer games, but lo and behold, sometimes other things just come up. Sometimes they are things we want to do -- like go to Science World, see the pictures! -- and sometimes they are things we have to do, like take a shower or eat a meal.

But also this week we have BOTH been working on Scratch (that we told you about last week). Teddy has worked on his first programs today, and Willie has been making improvements to some of his. We are learning this thing WAY faster than Mommy is, but every once in a while she comes up with a helpful hint or suggestion (thank you mommy) and Papa upgraded Teddy's computer so he could even run Scratch in the first place (thank you papa). We told Mommy and Papa we would try to be cooperative with each other about learning this program instead of competing with each other.

We actually went outdoors for a while yesterday and it was kind of fun, we have to admit. It's OK for a while anyway.

Mommy used a new-to-her cookie recipe for goodies for her singing group this week and papa said he thought they were store-bought. Apparently to some people this is an insult and to some people this is a compliment, but I'm not really sure which is which. When we got home from Science World late one night we had found she had started a really huge puzzle -- it says it is 1,000 pieces, we haven't counted for sure but Teddy and Mommy estimated around 950 by multiplying the number of pieces on one long edge by the number in one short edge, pretty tricky huh? But anyway the puzzle is still not quite finished, though it's getting close. We all help a little.

So after getting on the road at 7:00 am which meant that we had to wake up at 10 minutes to seven, and watching 3 hours of Looney Tunes and crossing an international border, we finally rolled up to SCIENCE WORLD for a full day of rock em sock em F-U-N!

No, we don't want to go it--we want to stand out here and just watch the Tower of Bauble forever.

Even More Contraptions are inside you say? Well then, what are we waiting for? Tally ho men and lead on. Blood and vinegar. Wot wot. Which is to say that this is the special attraction of Science world, although the bottomless pit of doom is certainly worth a look, and the other exhibits are always good for a laugh.

But at the end of the day, and the beginning and in between, this is where we choose to play and play and play.

And play some more. You should have seen how many blimps I made and then they all exploded and the then the guys were on springboards and the laser was firing. I guess you had to be there.

But now through the magic of youtube, you can be there--here it is in all of it's shaky and questionable glory.

Okay, there are other things to do at Science World as you all know, and we did do them, contrary to the misguided impression put forth by the webmaster.

We even ate, twice. One of the great things about Costco in Canada is that they have chicken strips and fries at the cafe. But they don't have plain cheese pizza--what's the deal with that?

Three other comments about Costco in the great white north--their prices are higher than the USA, even though Canadian money is worth more than ours. They offer the french fries with gravy or poutine--what the heck is poutine? They have the metric system in Canada yet the pizza is 18 inches and the pop is 20 ounces--what's a Canadian to do? UPDATE: According to wikipedia, poutine is a quintessential Canadian comfort food consisting of French fries topped with fresh cheese curds and covered with gravy. We'll stick to plain, thank you.