Let's Get Out of Here!
We walked into the buffet breakfast at the Hyatt on Friday morning. Eli 4.4 was wearing his Superman pajamas, at his request. He wore them for a Halloween costume, so we figured they're passable. Maybe no one would notice.We walked right up to the greeter and he said "How are you, young man?"
Eli 4.4 said "I'm WEARING my PAJAMAS."
You'd think he couldn't top himself after that, but you'd be wrong. We went to one of those drive-through wildlife parks (Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch) on the way home. The last time we went to one of these parks, ostriches started pecking the roof of the car after we ran out of food.
Aggressive bastards, those ostriches.
So the first thing we see as drive into this park are ostriches. Eli 4.4 has a big of food in the back seat, but there's no way in hell he's feeding an ostrich. That's fine, but somehow that reluctance gets transferred to ALL the animals in the wildlife park. So after we get past the ostriches, we see some sort of African/South American/European/Whatever kind of deer, and Eli yells "I think I see an animal! LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!"
He got over it, of course, and proceeded to throw food pellets out the windows with abandon. He'd start with an entire bag of food, then five minutes later we'd hear "Out of food!'
On the way home, we stopped at a big outlet mall in San Marcos. 200+ stores. It's the outlet mall with everything, including a tax refund store where you can get a cash advance on your refund so that you can immediately spend every penny. And it was located right next to the main restrooms. Vegas has nothing on these people.
Gloria went to shop for shoes and we looked for some rides. We found several, including a purple donkey that bucked mildly to the theme from "Gunsmoke." Then there was the official NASA command module with what sounded like real voice samples from actual moon missions.
We were driving slowly through the road next to the stores, the sidewalk jammed with people, and I said "Eli, this is just like the wildlife park."
"What do you mean, Daddy?" he asked.
"We're driving through with our windows up, looking at all the animals, except this time they're people," I said. "Do you have any M&M's?" I asked. "We can throw a few out the window and maybe they'll come right up to the car."
He liked that. Maybe we'll try it next time.
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