Sunday
Monday
The Reckoning
2 tickets to The Decemberists concert, in Vancouver= $80
2 return Bus tickets from Victoria to Vancouver=$126
Lunch for two at the buffet on the ferry=$30
Hotel room for one night=$100
Getting to the venue only to see a sign posted on the door stating that the concert has been reschedualed due to illness=heartbreaking
(second try)
Return Bus tickets to Vancouver for two people=$126
Dinner & brunch for two at the buffet on the ferry=$60
One night at the YMCA downtown Vancouver=$60
Total cost over two weekends= $582.00
(plus change for all those little things you never count)
Finally getting to see the Decemberists in a totally wicked concert =totally worth it...
(ripping off this format from a hated ad campaing that refuses to die=shameless)
2 return Bus tickets from Victoria to Vancouver=$126
Lunch for two at the buffet on the ferry=$30
Hotel room for one night=$100
Getting to the venue only to see a sign posted on the door stating that the concert has been reschedualed due to illness=heartbreaking
(second try)
Return Bus tickets to Vancouver for two people=$126
Dinner & brunch for two at the buffet on the ferry=$60
One night at the YMCA downtown Vancouver=$60
Total cost over two weekends= $582.00
(plus change for all those little things you never count)
Finally getting to see the Decemberists in a totally wicked concert =totally worth it...
(ripping off this format from a hated ad campaing that refuses to die=shameless)
Friday
The Bonus...
Things I have heard children say #2
I give underducks. I gave fantastic underducks. Ones from the back (which are higher of course) and ones from the front. The thing that makes my underducks extra-special are the faces I make while giving them. Do you want a scary face (scariest ever perhaps)? do you want a funny face? or maybe a a crazed zombie pirate face would do you today. I also usually make some kind of sound at the same time, a scream, or mad giggle.
One day we were all going to the park. With chanting cries of "UNDERDUCKIES, UNDERDUCKIES, UNDERDUCKIES" preceding me to the swings. I went to give the first child an underduck and this is the conversation that proceeded...
child: Can I have an underduck?
me: Of course.
child: With the bonus!!
me: Bonus? what's that?
child: A scary face bonus!!!
me: You call my faces the bonus?
child: YEAH YEAH!! BONUS!! (other children join the cry of bonus)
me: OK!!
So now I give underducks with the option of a bonus (some children don't like my scary face bonuses and so opt out of the bonuses). The kids get quite inventive with what kinds of bonuses they want (I always ask of course). My favorite so far was an utterance from the scissor kid. I asked him what kind of bonus he wanted. He took a long moment to think very hard and then said "Punk!! I want a punk face bonus"
I give underducks. I gave fantastic underducks. Ones from the back (which are higher of course) and ones from the front. The thing that makes my underducks extra-special are the faces I make while giving them. Do you want a scary face (scariest ever perhaps)? do you want a funny face? or maybe a a crazed zombie pirate face would do you today. I also usually make some kind of sound at the same time, a scream, or mad giggle.
One day we were all going to the park. With chanting cries of "UNDERDUCKIES, UNDERDUCKIES, UNDERDUCKIES" preceding me to the swings. I went to give the first child an underduck and this is the conversation that proceeded...
child: Can I have an underduck?
me: Of course.
child: With the bonus!!
me: Bonus? what's that?
child: A scary face bonus!!!
me: You call my faces the bonus?
child: YEAH YEAH!! BONUS!! (other children join the cry of bonus)
me: OK!!
So now I give underducks with the option of a bonus (some children don't like my scary face bonuses and so opt out of the bonuses). The kids get quite inventive with what kinds of bonuses they want (I always ask of course). My favorite so far was an utterance from the scissor kid. I asked him what kind of bonus he wanted. He took a long moment to think very hard and then said "Punk!! I want a punk face bonus"
Monday
Things I have heard children say...
Setting; a fight over the single pair of scissors being used by two children
Child of five; (said in a very calm voice) "I am very upset right now and need some time to myself. I am going to the bathroom to be alone for a few minutes. When I come back I would like to make a compromise about the scissors" (child of five does indeed go to the bathroom and spend 5 minutes by himself to then return and say...) "I have a compromise. I think we should go upstairs and find another pair of scissors so that we each have a pair and we won't fight over them anymore"
What could I say except "Sure..." in dumbfoundment.
Child of five; (said in a very calm voice) "I am very upset right now and need some time to myself. I am going to the bathroom to be alone for a few minutes. When I come back I would like to make a compromise about the scissors" (child of five does indeed go to the bathroom and spend 5 minutes by himself to then return and say...) "I have a compromise. I think we should go upstairs and find another pair of scissors so that we each have a pair and we won't fight over them anymore"
What could I say except "Sure..." in dumbfoundment.
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