Sea Monsters

This past weekend was a very long one for me. My DH needed to go to Detroit for some meetings. He left on Thursday evening. So it was me and the girls home for the weekend. I can't remember what happened on Friday night. Must not have been too eventful. The girls are usually tired after school all day. So I'm pretty sure I just put them to bed and then indulged in my lastest past time of catching up with "Jon and Kate plus 8". I love DVR! Now I know that this show has been on for a while. But I'm addicted. I think they have such a cute family. And I just can't even imagine what it would be like to have 8 children six of whom are only 4 years old. Yikes! Anyways, where was I...

Oh I remember, so that was Friday. Saturday dawned wet and drizzly (our portion of Hurricane Ike) The girls also dawned quite early and I remember asking them "why" it was Saturday? No school, they like to act like they want to sleep in during the week, why not today? Nevertheless, Olivia got herself completely dressed, (again this is not typical weekly behavior) So we got breakfast together and watched it rain, *twiddling our tumbs* what to do. Audrey said lets go see a movie. Great suggestion, my girls love movies and well they have a Mom who does too. Much to our dismay not one single movie has been released lately to the "G rated" crowd. (Audrey's answer, I want to Mamma Mia, we've been listening to ABBA lately, but didn't want to explain about 3 Dads.) But I did notice that Madison had an IMAX theater and then I remembered that Davenport also has an IMAX theater. I'd never been to one of those, the movie at the one in Davenport was called "Sea Monsters" So I told the girls and they seemed excited especially that it would be 3-D. So we get down there and have lunch and then head over in the rain to the IMAX. Turns out there was a children's musuem attached that we could go to. It was fun to see on a rainy day. They have a real life mummy, (that was funny.) Then we go to see our movie. Has dinosaurs in it and other animals that are extinct now (this is really National Geographic-ish). Well the movie was only 44 min long and the 3-D was so cool. The girls liked it, especially Audrey. It was fun to see the fish swimming around you or at you (or so it appears) there are some intense parts for a 2 and 5 year old. But Olivia was heard to say in the theater "Mom I just take my glasses off for those" and Whitney would just hug my arm. After the movie ended Whitney left the theater saying "Funny Fish" I'm not sure about her thinking maybe I scarred her psyche.

>After our movie we ended our trip by stopping at the mall to get a Whitey's and then we captured our "girls day out" by getting our picture taken at one of those picture booths you see at every mall (we had a hard time figuring it out and then we did it again) I told the girls we would give it to Daddy so he could always remember us and we could always remember our trip to see the "Sea Monsters