Marie - and- Today's Adventure...

I realize this will be a shocker, but it was raining today in Austin (I'm still planning on that ark building party, people!). So, let me catch you guys up...

My niece, Marie, who is 8, is here visiting for 2 weeks. She got here on Tuesday. My kids have been talking about taking her to the pool, to Volente Beach, playing outside, etc. Ha! It is STILL raining here in Austin. It rains at least every 24 hours so nothing can dry up. It's insane. We've been avoiding downtown with all the rain, so we've been just doing little things here and there. Poor kid, she's going to have memories of visiting us in Seattle Austin.

So, anyway, this is how she looked when I picked her up. She told me her name was Tom. Hey, don't ask me, she's my sister's kid... LOL *waves to Ginger*

Anyway, so she's a jokester (sometimes not such a good thing - we had a rubber cement incident with the dog - oy vey!)... anyway... so, what we did today...

First we went to Jamie's favorite place to eat, the Spicy Pickle. Here's some pics from that outing - I don't know why, but Cassie wanted me to make the pepperoni in her mouth blue. Whatever.



... ut uh... already turning her into an alky...

(It's Pellegrino water, Gin... chill out!)

Then it was off to Main Event... first, we played Lunar Golf - not great pictures here because it's all glow in the dark and hey, my camera sucks (HINT FOR TOM)



And THEN we went bowling... whew! What a day!




Cassie won! 'Course she was using the kid's thing and Marie wasn't... I think we can safely call it a tie ;)