Family, Yet Not Family
Wednesday, August 26, 20099:52 PM
Today was my first full day of my week of fun with the twins, Nicholas and Robert, along with my mom's best friend Auntie Barbara, and her husband Uncle Tony. The twins are like little tornadoes. They start of as calm little wisps and they're running around, then they settle down, yet you know exactly where they were with constant calms and bouts of excitement. They're absolutely adorable and they love to have fun, but the day could not have gotten more tiring with all the exciting bits.
Last night, everyone except my father and myself played a round of (as Auntie Barbara calls it) 'Musical Beds'. Auntie Barbara and Uncle Tony slept in my mom's bed (otherwise known as the guest room), My brother slept in a sleeping bag after Robert and Nick didn't like sleeping in the same air mattress, so I believe Nick slept in Andrey's bed and Robert slept in the air mattress. Yet when everyone awoke, Robert was in Andrey's bed and Nick in the air mattress. Throughout the night you could hear them switching constantly between the air mattress in the loft and Andrey's room.
Around 11 AM we went to the pool, and since absolutely no one else was there with us we had the two giant pools to ourselves. Luckily we today was an excellent day for swimming when it wasn't too hot when we got there. Of course there was an abundance of water guns when we had the 10 minute breaks, and a blast squirting our favorite lifeguard Matt. I exercised a bit with Water Aerobics and doing laps in the lanes. I had to stop doing laps in the lanes when I lost my hair tie and couldn't swim with my hair getting all over my face and causing me to be unable to breathe. When the snack bar finally opened we had a delicious snack of Nachos, but since they had no cheese we decided to just have chili with them (Robert's new Favorite). We also had a variety of crackers and chips to tide us over.
After finishing up from the pool and cleaning up, we went over to Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Centreville, VA. It's a often haunt of mine, since my father co-owns this certain store. ALL the boys (even the old ones) had Chocolate Chillers, while I had a Island Paradise (I believe), and Auntie Barbara had a Mango Magic. My mother and I shared a Sesame Chicken Wrap, Auntie Barbara had a Cordon Bleu Wrap (which she shared with Robert), and Uncle Tony had a Buffalo Chicken Wrap. The Buffalo Chicken Wrap is
extremely spicy, so I don't recommend it for the faint of taste. Nicholas decided he wanted to try it and he took a big bite out of Uncle Tony's wrap, and he looked like a scene from a Disney TV Show. His face got red and he gagged a bit and hurried to return the wrap to Uncle Tony. After that it sort of ruined the TSC experience as he refused to eat anything else except some of Auntie Barbara's smoothie which has low-fat yogurt in it to help soothe the burn.
Soon we came home to relax and enjoy ourselves, but the boys had been messing with my brother's broken RoboSapien V2 and could not figure out why even though they replaced all the batteries, it still kept saying "brain battery low", so they gave it to my mom, my aunt, and I. The robot turned out to be extremely creepy, annoying, and funny as it would turn on and turn off at certain times. And some random touches caused spasms or out of control movements, that it made it seem possessed. This possessed idea came from a previous incident with my cousin Jonathan. One time he had been staying over and it was approaching midnight and he was playing with a 20Q ball, and was yelling that it was possessed since it kept guessing what he was thinking. So he runs into my brothers room and jumps on his bed screaming this in order to annoy him since Andrey was trying to sleep. However, as he's lying in Andrey's bed, the RoboSapien which was supposedly broken was on this shelf and turns on, begins to talk, and then goes into Standby where in moves into that pose that the kids are in in the Quaker Oats Chewy Bars commercial and spooks Jonathan completely.
This was an extremely fun day (followed by an extremely long post.
Labels: Electronics, Family Stories, Personal
