Sunday, October 5, 2008

A day at the Renaissance Festival

We decided to go to the Renaissance Festival today since they had a deal going...We had walked plenty yesterday but decided to ice the cake with walking around there for nearly 4 hours. It was fun though. Greyson did great. He rode on the pirate ship swing with me, shot a knight at the paint ball gun gallery, and may I say he is a really good shot...it was a little scary how accurate he was, and then we put him on the bungee jumping trampoline. He did great and really enjoyed himself. We ate a great big turkey leg and he and I shared it. He liked it even though at first he wasn't having any part of it. Once he finally tried it he was fine and ate alot of it. We told him it was just like a big chicken leg and he freaked out...That was funny... He even rode a zip line horse for a joust to try and grab the ring for a prize. It was time to start heading home so we stopped to let him mold his hand in wax. he was excited until he had to put his hand in ice water to cool it first. The guy working there grabbed his arm to help and held it in the water while he counted to 20...needless to say once he took it out Greyson was freezing and totally freaked out. he started crying and did not want anything to do with making a wax hand after that. Michele hit the guy and called him a meany and he apologized. he wasn't trying to scare or hurt Greyson and we didn't even think to tell Greyson what he was going to have to do to make a wax hand so.....the whole experience there blew up in our faces. Yes...we even have moments where we forget we need to give a little added attention to certain things. The whole ice water, frozen hand thing was sensory overload and it ruined it for him. At least we didn't make it to the warm wax...that may have freaked him even more! Live and learn....eventually we will have this whole thing down pat I hope...I think it may take years though...haha. There seems to always be a new thing cropping up that we haven't thought about or taken into account that can send him into a tail spin. I need to be creating a manual of "what ifs" or "just in case you encounter..." for other parents. heck...at least someone else can learn from our mistakes. It's not funny but if we didn't laugh at times we would probably cry. Ridin' the wave...still ridin' the wave.... Most importantly, we had a great time overall, we overcame some hurdles and we learned another lesson. that always makes for a good day. Now its time to relax and enjoy the last of our weekend. Come back tomorrow for some more fun. Until then goodnight to you and sleep tight. Dream a little dream for us! :)

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