This morning when I woke up and ran into my parents bedroom together with my sister Lya, Daddy seemed a little bit groggy. Apparently he drank a few beers at our neighbor's party where someone had turned 40! Just imagine, 40!, ancient, isn't it? I have no idea how old my Daddy is, but there was a lot of talk about my generation, his generation and your generation at the party - and there were a lot of questions about the year 1967! I wonder why? There was also a get to know quiz, because everybody had turned in a sentence that was a unique description of something about them - there were things like somebody starting the week in Kenya, someone else hanging out on the beach in Hawaii with Baywatch moms, someone being on the Board of Directors of the local water company, someone breastfeeding during a marathon...I think Mommy and Daddy had a really good time, one of their friends started asking for cigarettes after her husband had left, and naturally she had continued to drink liberally...I think my Daddy suggested that she should run around the block three times and then do 25 push-ups, whereafter for sure she would be rewarded with a cigarette...it was all good fun. When Mommy was ready to leave she almost left Daddy behind as the neighbor implied that she leaving didn't necessarily mean that he had to leave also - but they did walk home together afterall. Two other friends walked home with them, too - this is such a cool neighborhood with everybody living so close to each other - but...let me get back to the important part of this blog: Charlie's birthday party:
...Mommy is going to bed already, she is meeting a few girls at 7:00 in the mornin to practice for her Ramblin Rose triathlon... Anyhow, after a short drive to Pittsboro we were pretty much in the woods, and the gravel road was taking us further and further into the woods until we finally had arrived! This was a pretty cool place. There were lots of trees, big boulders (rocks so to speak) and there was even a river nearby that Daddy quickly hiked to while everybody else was busy. The best part of the party were the games. We hammered some nails into a piece of wood; we used powerdrills to tighten some screws, and then we built wooden planes that everyone let fly around everywhere.
Charlie also had some pretty cool sit-on-top toys. I especially liked the tractor:
After I had gotten a pretty good handle on the tractor Charlie allowed me to try his birthday present, a Kawasaki Ninja! Now this is a fun toy!
It was just a great party - everybody got along great. Charlie liked my gift, too, and the present unwrapping session was just fun for everybody. Soon enough it was 5:00 o'clock, and time for everyone to go home. On the way home we stopped at the Performance bike store in Carborro, and bought Mommy a kick stand for her bike so she can easily stand up her bike when it is hooked up to the trailer. Mommy is a crazy woman when it comes to her bike and our trailer. This week she picked me up from preschool with Lya already in the trailer as it was pooring rain, and then we rode home on pretty busy streets. Lya and I cuddled up really close to each other the whole ride home - boy was I happy when the garage door opened and we finally pulled into save and known territory - I guess we won't be doing that again anytime soon...
alright my friends, I have to go to sleep now. My Daddy promised to build a boat out of Lego with me first thing tomorrow morning, so the sooner I fall asleep, the sooner it will be tomorrow morning. Time's a waste'n...miss you all a bunch. Would be nice to go to another Calçotada sometime in the future. Special greetings to you, my friend, Victor - drop me a line if you should ever read this.
1 comment:
Hey Luc!!
I'm happy you learned so fast english. And also happy you learned to write and gave a hand writing for your parents, so we get more news from over seas. That means also next time we see we'll speak in the same language, no more mixture between spanish germany and english!!
I either don't know how old are your parents (well I do know but I wont write it down, just discover it by yourself), but trust me, one thing it's sure: they are younger than they look like.
Big hug bro!!
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