What I Did This Weekend
by: Rue DeDay
Age 34 3/4
Saturday dawned bright and clear, if a little nippy. I sprang from my bed and roused my first born progeny and readied us both for the Fall Hike. Shibb and his Boy showed up and we motored off for a day of…
That’s when my alarm went off. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I pulled myself out from under my covers to look out the window. What a craptastic day! Grey clouds, sprinkley rain and blustery wind. Yay! But maybe, just maybe it’s an isolated weather pattern. You know, just over my house. Oh yeah, it was “isolated” all right. Isolated to the Earth! But that’s OK, we had a back-up plan. When Shibb (trivia: Shibb is smarter, nicer and taller than me) gets here, we’ll just round up FisherQueen and go over to the Museum of Flight. When Shibb gets here.
“No, no!” I said. “Don’t get doughnuts. It’ll slow us down!”
“Ha ha!” he said. “I know what I’m doing, and we shall have doughnuts!”
The downside was it really slowed Shibb down and he was LATE! On the upside there were doughnuts, so it was pretty OK after all. Then we piled into the car (trivia: my car smells like dogs), all four of us: Shibb, the Boy, Soupo and me, and off to Glen Helen we went. Before we even got out of the driveway “are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?”. Man! Shibb wouldn’t shut up! Luckily it wasn’t that long a drive to the park.
And there was FisherQueen waiting for us. We knew it was she (her?) because of the crown and she smelled like bait. Ha! I kid! Fisher didn’t smell like bait, she smelled all girl-like. Not that I made a point of sniffing her or anything. Really. She was wearing hip waders, but then who doesn’t like a woman in rubber pants with buit-in boots? I ask ya? And it was really more of a tiara. (trivia: FisherQueen watched Adult Entertainment in her classroom before school started one day. At least she said it was only the one time.) I got the stove ready to heat up some water so we could have hot chocolate with the doughnuts and the boys (Boy and Soupo) ran around making sure there was no one else around that was supposed to be with us and maybe hiding behind the big rock. There wasn’t, by the way. Shibb chatted with Fisher. Man, was he smooth.
After we quaffed hot chocolate and nibbled upon a doughnut or two, we came to the conclusion that yes, it IS a craptacular day! And we really don’t need to see Nature in such a craptacular setting (the park is nice, when it’s not raining and really cold) so we drove off to the Museum of Flight at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Shibb went with Fisher to navigate (trivia: that was my idea) and I took the boys. On the drive over, the boys were mining the subject of “poop” for all the comedy gold it was worth. The children. (trivia: At the Air Force Museum there’s this WWI German plane, the Fokker, it’s painted pink. The grown-ups in the party mined the “Pink Fokker” for all the comedy gold it was worth.)
The Air Force Museum is really nice. It has a bunch of planes and stuff. (trivia: for a mere 75¢ you can rent a locker big enough to fit a six year old boy AND a five year old boy at the same time!) We walked around and looked at the planes and stuff. I think we all learned something that day. But it was all an accident! Really! OK, it wasn’t all accidental, the learning stuff. Someone just had to ask what you call a girl Airman. (“Airman”) And I had to ask what the heck the difference is between a Nissen hut and a Quonset hut. (Quonset huts are better.) Other than that, all learning was purely accidental.
Sunday wasn’t so exciting. I chased Lucy around the living room with a skillet. Not because she was bad or anything, it was just funny to chase my small dog around the living room with a skillet.
-Rue.