A Spring Break Outing

Since Bregon has been cooped up all Spring Break inside, helping me with our little people, I decided that he needed an outing.

The weather promised to be beautiful and spring-like, so we decided that a movie at the Boardwalk might be in order.

It's amazing how compliant, efficient and helpful a 13 year old can become when an outing seems imminent!

He was very speedy in helping me get the babies lunch together and served, and even in helping me get everyone dressed for the day.

We managed to get out of the house a whole fifteen minutes earlier than I had planned, even!

The babies were okay with the car ride because "Cars" are the order of the day now in trio-land, making the interstate a fun place for them to be.

Exiting the interstate was another matter entirely, however. That is when the waterworks kicked in.

Bregon very smoothly popped in the Beatles CD with "Hey Dude" on it and magically everyone started "La-la-ing" along to the Beatles.

I even found a parking spot without having to go all commando and defensive for once!

We had a few minutes, so Bregon and I thought we would give Vivie-shoe shopping a try.

It was much easier said than done. Today, I don't know what it is, but the crowds were just not as nice as they usually are.

I had trouble getting into The Children's Place, even, and it is a big store. I ended up having to park my limo to keep the kids from getting mowed over by shoppers.

Next, we tried Carters. the wind held the door open for everyone but me for some reason.

Thank you's were in order to the nice gentleman who found the irony as funny as I did and helped me get my limo inside the store.

Bregon had a brain-fart and realized that he had quite forgotten to feed himself during lunch-time at the house.

I sent him on to the Pretzel shop for his lunch while I tried Vivie-shoe-shopping some more.

We never did find any shoes that would work for her. I was going to pop into the Stride-Right shop, but we just did NOT fit inside logistically, so we passed on that one.

But, we did manage to get to the movie theater in time for leisurely ticket and popcorn acquisition!

By this time, I had managed to acquire a few new toys from a quick swing through the toy store, and was trying to open and distribute the toys while standing in the popcorn line.

We ended up having to trade out duties, and Bregon did popcorn duty for me successfully.

We finally found the right theater (Horton was showing on no less than 3 screens this day) and landed our seats in the handicapped section.

Thankfully, I had remembered to bring the little cups so that I could distribute popcorn to the hungry little people in there limo.

Everyone really enjoyed the Speed Racer trailer, but Vivie fell asleep about mid-way through Horton Hears A Who.

The boys did okay until Horton ran into trouble with the vulture, so Kian had to be set free on his leash to make him feel better.

Of course, Kaiden wasn't too far behind his brother in that respect! Soon, Bregon and I were trading leashes back and forth in some effort to keep the kids from tying themselves into knots!

Then, Kian got smart, and decided that he wanted to check out the stairs going down to the front of the screen.

He knew that his leash didn't reach far enough to allow him to check out the territory, so his faithful sidekick, Ted, had to go where no little people were allowed to go.

Yep, Ted took one for the team today, and was tossed down the stairway repeatedly in some effort to bring back information on what was beyond to his buddy, Kian.

This only resulted in Bregon having to play the age-old game of "Step&Fetch-It" pioneered by toddlers of years gone by.

We must have retrieve Ted a zillion times in the 15 minutes or so left of the movie.

Meanwhile, we also learned that Kaiden can drink from a straw. He had some Icee and some Dr. Pepper while Bregon and I weren't looking.

Luckily, Vivienne had long since tired of everything, and had decided to snooze the rest of the way through the movie.

It was when the credits began to roll that we REALLY had a bit of trouble, though. You would think that the presence of my very large, very cumbersome stroller would alert the general populace of the presence of little people, but not so.

There are just some folks out there who hold their heads up high, and do not recognize that there is a whole other world out there, living under their line of site.

This one lady was one of those people, apparently. I found it sort of ironic, actually, given the nature of the movie that we had all just seen.

But, she either wasn't looking or just did not care to notice that there was a tiny boy standing next to his stroller on his little toddler leash, because she knocked Kian straight back into the stroller.

He was okay, he only whimpered a little, but that lady didn't even break stride or even seem to take notice of what she did to him.

I am guessing that this lady must have missed the point of the movie and was more on the side of the Kangaroo than anything. Ah well, no real harm done.

The ushers were super nice and offered to turn the lights up for Bregon and I so that we could make sure that we had everything that we had come in with.

I thought that was really nice of them to do so! We managed to find all of our sippy cups, all of our popcorn cups, and even the black police matchbox car that we had just gotten at the toy store!

Over all, it was a successful outing. We still need some Vivie-shoes, but we will just have to try somewhere else!

After we got everyone loaded into the van, and were headed towards the interstate, Bregon put on "Hey Dude" and the babies slept the rest of the way home.