The Queen's Rambles

If you remember awhile back, we let Erik take an old fan and have his way with it. He spent many, many minutes taking that thing apart. He says he collects technology so he can build a car and a robot.

I mentioned the fan and technology on my FB page and a semi-local friend offered up an old computer for the boy. Since she is semi-local, it took some time to find a time to get together, but today was the day! I really needed a day away from the kids after having them on my own for almost two straight days. Mike needs a day off too, but I guess today was my day. I was really proud of Mike–he actually took the kids out to lunch by himself. They went to a buffet, so that always helps since it eliminates wait time. I guess it went well.

But back to my fun day! We entered our two towns in Google so we could find a good half-way point. We were both surprised when Frederick, MD came up as our best option. And it was exactly half-way. It took me 35 minutes and it took her 36 minutes plus a few extra minutes for a farm equipment induced traffic jam.

I printed out some touristy information since I wasn’t exactly sure what was on offer and we enjoyed several hours of exploring. Its a cute little downtown area with some world class restaurants. We skipped Volt, a restaurant owned by a “Top Chef” competitor because of the price. And honestly? I don’t think I can go to a top quality restaurant. I took a look at the menu and couldn’t find a single thing I would want to try. I am not adventurous enough. I don’t like seafood or mushrooms, so that takes out a lot of the gourmet options.

We had a great lunch and a fun time going into weird little shops. I bought a new fair trade silk bag! So pretty! I’ll have to post a pic when I find my camera battery charger. We also bought some fancy-pants chocolates and some ice cream. Yummmmmmm. . .

The chocolate store was very small and there were a couple of other people in there. I wasn’t really paying attention because I was looking at all the chocolate, but apparently the employee was cursing on the phone. I don’t think it must have been the f-bomb or anything to terrible, but when he hung up the phone the other customer, an older lady, scolded him and told him to watch his language. I thought that was pretty bold.

We had our eye on the sky the whole time, and sure enough–a big thunderstorm started as we were walking back to our car. We were about four blocks away on a creek bank, so we were able to take shelter under a bridge. There was a bicycle rickshaw driver who offered us a ride (I’m sure it would have cost dearly) to our cars, but we chose to stand around and wait. Amazingly enough the storm passed only after a few minutes.

When I got home and presented Erik with his new technology he was over the moon. He literally spent four hours unscrewing everything and taking it apart. Towards the end he came down and told me that Mike and I needed to wrestle.

Ummmm.

Whaaaaa?

Ohhhhhh. . .we should wrestle to see who is stronger. He needs a strong person to help him remove a few stubborn screws. Ahhhhhhh. .. .

It all makes sense in the mind of a five year old.

Anyway. . .

I thought I was going to like “Torchwood: Miracle Day” but now I’m just confused. It had a lot of promise, but it really makes no sense. Suddenly they have a pedophile and murderer as some kind of media darling. Do they really think the people would flock to him? I think not. They are doing a lot of telling about what would happen to society, but very little showing. It makes no sense and most of the characters are not very likeable. I’ll probably finish out the series and will even enjoy parts of it, but I will give up on trying to make any sense of the whole political scene.