the race is on!

i'm not usually one to sit through a movie at the theater, but my cousin and i took her son (aka brat, aka the kid, aka j-lo, aka my dear young cousin, aka the boy i took to put-in-bay, aka jared) to see race to witch mountain today. what a fun movie! and i only checked the time once, and that was about an hour and fifteen minutes into it. it was action packed and the storyline kept you moving. i still think it's funny that the actor used to be just "the rock". then it was dwayne "the rock" johnson. in this movie he was just dwayne johnson. funny stuff.
anyway, the three of us are going to florida in july and we decided that we should invest in some of the originals to take with us in the event it rains one day/night and we're couped up in the hotel.
from there we went to silver springs and played on the huge playground they have. they have this spongy rubber padding under the whole thing (i'm sure it's to pad any falls from the equipment) that is so much darn fun to walk on. then we went to hudson springs and skipped rocks across the lake. okay, so we skipped maybe a tenth of them and "plopped" the rest. they have this frisbee golf (which we were corrected to calling it disk golf) course there that people were really getting in to. eighteen "holes". not too sure about that one, but i think it's one of those things that if one were to start playing they would be addicted immediately. i don't believe i'll start playing.
after we were done park hopping we came back to my apartment and looked up travel arrangements to florida on the computer while the kid played the wii i got for my birthday. i asked jared "would you like to challenge me to a game of wii?", but then i realized that at nine years old, he's probably never seen the comedian jo koy, so it made my impression absolutely pointless.
all in all, it was a pretty good day!