Thursday Gee Time

When I told CeCe that I lost my job she thought that was pretty cool because now we could spend some more time together. Yes, I suppose that's one way of looking at the bright side of it. So today was our first day to spend some quality time together with the stipulation that it didn't involve money. Manny called it a scavenger hunt for lighthouses. The first one that we visited was Wind Point in Racine. This one is pretty cool as it's 108 feet tall and is the tallest and oldest lighthouse still operating on the Great Lakes. We weren't able to climb the tower (it's only open on Sundays) but the kids still found the history quite interesting and got to blow the flog horn. They ventured into the lake and decided that it would be best to keep their flip flops on but soon learned how difficult it was to walk in them.

The next one that we visited was the Racine North Breakwater. It took a bit of navigating to figure out how to get to this one but once we did it was sure worth it. This one is no longer active but the locals consider it a landmark. We didn't see any 'no tresspassing' signs so Manny decided to figure out how to climb it. I didn't want to do my freakoid Grandma thing so I just said a couple of prayers that he'd be safe and watched him figure out the best way to straddle the beams and inch his way over to the staircase which was about 6 feet from the ground, surrounded by a prickly bush.

He felt so proud of himself for combating his fears and walked with a bit more confidence after that. He's decided that he'll wear tennies next time as flip flops just aren't the best for boy stuff.

The kids spent the rest of the afternoon at the sandy beach near this light so no more worries about floating flip flops. One could build a sand castle in the back seat of my car now and I think I'll leave it that way for a bit to relish the memory of a wonderful afternoon with the kids.

Afterward we met up with Christie and went to a performance of the ACROCATS -- it was a hilarious show put on by trained cats. Yes, TRAINED cats!! The performer has trained these cats using a clicker and whistle - of course the kids are now going to try and train their cat, Tansy as they're sure that my cats are beyond hope. The cats even played in a band!

Next week we're going to try and see the other two lights in Racine and I promised Carrie not to subject her children to danger again. Freakoid mom!