TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVEN

Saturday and it was Dan's turn to go out with Mom and Dad. We headed off to the free movie and watched MISTER MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM. A little sappy, but I thought it was very well done. It was an intimate film without a lot of acotrs and, sure they had some special effects, but it felt like a movie they would have done thirty years ago. I thought they did a great job.
After that we were on our way to fanfare where Dan got some Yu-Gi-Oh cards and other stuff. Then he wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese. I got some coupons off the internet the day before so we saved some serious coin there. Dan had a blast and got some cool prizes with his tickets. He's very good at some of those games.
After that we went and saw FORBIDDEN KINDGOM with Jet Li and Jackie Chan. It was great! Truly a kick butt film. Nothing but pure action and very entertaining at the same time.
After that we headed to Walmart for phone cards and stuff. Martha has this new obsession with kites so we picked up some kites as well. Then, Dan wanted more food so we headed to MCDonalds for soem fast food crap. Hey, it was the kids' day, so what ya gonna do?
Then we headed home for a minute before Dennis and Delia went to their friends' house and Martha and I took Dan and Dandelion to Dino's Coffee Lounge. Seems that the littles' music teacher was going to perform and Dandelion's little friend, Helen was going to be there.
Dino's used to be the coolest record/head shop in the tri county area. It was called Boogie records and it was the place to go for, well everything. Having spent a lot of my misspent youth there I was sad when it got converted to a coffee shop.
Now, I don't mind so much. It had that cool, hippy feel that Boogie had and the music was a lot of tribal percussion and we all loved that. I spotted Paul Sizer there, but it was too crowded to go bother the man. He looked like he was having a good time though. Even Dandelion went out to dance.
After that it was time to head home and wind down. Got church tomorrow.