ShannonAlbert.com - June 2009

Saturday had us going to a lot of different places. Many of them were dives but had redeeming qualities.

We started off Saturday with a very non-divey visit to Exploration Place with Andy, Blake and me. The current exhibit called "Scoop on Poop" was all Blake needed to hear before wanting to go. We have annual passes and need to go more often.

The Joan Goodall chimpanzee exhibit. Very well done as usual.


Searching for termites just like primates do...


Slightly lopsided. Someday, many years from now, you'll have a chance, Blake.




Hey, look...Blake's favorite word in the whole world!


Me: Blake, how was your day today?
Blake: poop.

Me: Blake, what sounds good for dinner?
Blake: poop.

Me: Blake, what's 3 + 11?
Blake: poop.

Me, ordering at Sonic and Blake yelling at the speaker "...and I'd like some poop!"

He loves it.

Daddy does too.


The sand/water table. Always his favorite. Look at that ornery look on his face.


We were done around lunchtime and decided we wanted to try something new. I looked up places to eat nearby and discovered that Ty's Diner was just a couple of minutes around the corner. It's definitely a dive, only takes cash, a line to get in and hamburgers from heaven. I should have taken pictures but I didn't. Take my word for it. I like to try new places and Andy likes hamburgers so it was win/win.

I wasn't going to talk about our Saturday evening but somebody asked so I'll run through it really quickly.

We went on a date Saturday night and Andy made the plans. We started out at another dive - Walt's. Smoky and yucky but awesome tacos.

Then we headed from the west side to the east side to bowl. I broke a 100 once. Go me! Andy had one really good game where he got around 170.

And that's where Andy's input stopped because I decided I really wanted to head to the Riverside Perk coffee shop because I've always wanted to. Loved it. Love Riverside. Want to move there.

Andy talk to his dad and uncle on the phone so then we were headed to Big's bar on the west side (very close to where Walt's is located so we ended up where we began after driving all over town). We stayed for several hours and got home pretty late but had fun.

The end.