Monday morning thoughts

[yendi]

1. Elayna's birthday party was this weekend. The party itself was a mythology-based one that all the girls enjoyed a lot. This was followed by Elayna's sleepover for her club (yes, kids still do things like that). Which meant six just-barely-preteens in the house. Creative ones. So instead of quietly watching DVDs and gossiping until they conked out, there was skit-writing, filmmaking, and storytelling. They claim to have slept at some point, but all I know is that they were awake when 'song and I finally drifted off, and awake when we woke up.

2. Elayna loved all of her presents, but the one that was certainly the focus of the weekend is the Wii. My right arm still hurts from playing Wii Sports on Saturday. But damn, it's fun.

3. Friday night saw a dinner at Bertucci's which turned out to be much, much better than we'd expected. We'd originally planned on hitting the North End, but between parking (or lack thereof), time, and the fact that we had eight people and no reservation, we decided that the Newton branch of the chain was good enough. Turned out to be a great family meal, with a damned good antipasto platter followed by some very nice pastas (mmm, lobster ravioli) and pizzas. Also some very good service.

4. I've raved about s00j before, but theferrett sums up the experience of watching her play better than I could ever hope to.

5. R.I.P., Richard Jeni.

Comments

[creentmerveille.livejournal.com]

The party sounds fabulous-- was this mythology thing something of your/song's invention?

I'd love to hear more about it.

[yendi]

It was a third-party group that Elayna saw at Arisia. That said, we could have done about 95% of what they did ourselves. Lesson learned for the future (although I suspect that Elayna will have grown out of theme parties by the time she's thirteen, anyway).

Basically, it involved logic puzzles built around assorted gods, which eventually led to them having to figure out a creative way to break into Troy (with the Trojan Horse off limits). It was nifty, not least because the girls were very enthusistic.

[ringrrl416.livejournal.com]

games for the Wii that are AMAZING: wario ware smooth moves, and Wii Play.

Wii play is basically like wii sports, but it has pool, table tennis, target practice, fishing,etc.

and wario ware is just plane fun. You have to hold the wiimote on your head, or at your hips or in a different combination so to play each game. its hilarious.