I had the privilege of taking these three girls to the inaugural Roller Derby event in Hilo. It was HUGE. I had three tickets that were given to me, and I figured it would be fun to take Emi and a friend or two. The girls got excited about dressing up and they decided to support the "Scaries". It was a Scaries vs. Fairies event, though personally, both teams were a bit on the scary side! The stadium was packed, lots of crowd participation with people in funny costumes and plenty of fish net stockings. The girls really got into it and screamed themselves horse and had the satisfaction of having their team win a resounding victory. My personal favorite? D'evil'D Meggs, the short little bullet, though Emi liked Firefly Fatal who was quick and spunky and wore a dark bandanna and was looking like an outlaw. Bam BooHoo was good in the front and knew how to throw her weight around, and for the Fairies we couldn't help but admire Scrappy Drue, the short and persistent jammer that really knew how to skate.
We've had a great Thanksgiving weekend and I took a few days off of work. So after eating copious amounts of turkey and stuffing ourselves silly, we had some time to play it off with a couple of beach days. Today Aaron's working to take down a tree limb- we have a fast growing tree that's been reaching out towards the house a bit too much, so he's doing that project. The girls are drawing (Emi's friend Zoe slept over last night and they've had a calm morning with a little Mario Cart and lots of colored pencils), and Charlie is pretending he isn't here so that I don't notice that he's STILL playing computer. It's a good and subtle strategy on his part.
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