We had a great weekend. Since we did our big party last week, we decided to eat leftovers and hide at home this weekend. Both of us had Friday the 3rd off so we took advantage of the 4th of July weekend sales and purchased the mattresses for the bunk bed. We found out that we have become spoiled on our latex mattress. Anything with a spring felt horrible! It took us 3 stores before we found a set we liked and had a price we could afford.
We headed home and Anthony became head Jam maker. 3 batches of raspberry Jam of our own bushes! And one batch of Watermellon jelly! We are set for the year when it comes to P&J.
Sunday we took Shawn to OMSI. What a blast! If you have never been, it’s like a smaller version of EPCOT’s Innoventions. We picked him up at 9:30am and headed straight to the museum. We didn’t tell him where we were going, and since he had never been, he had no clue where he was for the first 10 mins even when we had arrived. But how cool it was to see his face light up when he figured out what type of place we had come to.
At 11:30am we watched a show at the Planetarium, Stars… hosted by Mark Hamill. Which is not a traditional Planetarium show, but rather a loud overhead movie. But, he loved it…. it was loud…. had cartoons and was (thankfully for the adults) wonderfully short.
We spent the rest of day playing and learning. Breaking only for a quick lunch.
After lunch and since Shawn was being such a good kids we even bought tickets for the Submarine tour. We Hadn’t planned on doing the sub, but when we arrived we found out that we had over paid since OMSI was having a special sale on admissions. (Anthony got the tickets at full rate online) So the refunded us back $23.00 and the sub tour only cost $15.00 so we came out ahead! The Sub was smelling and cramped, and everything else little boys love. Shawn was completing into it. He got to drive the Submarine and try out one of the crew beds. He was also the only kid to ask questions! A proud respite caregiver moment!
We only had one moment of unhappiness when Shawn figured out that his $2.10 in change was not enough to purchase anything at the Science store (gift shop). It was like all the joy in the world had gone away. As soon as we entered the shop I knew nothing good would come if it as he ran right to the $50.00 and up item wall. But to Shawn’s credit, he did not ask for money or for us to buy him anything.
A great weekend!