A Man And His Dinosaur

I've got a new favorite game! For now. That is subject to change upon my acquisition of StarCraft II. But for now, I've been playing around in the Halo universe with both Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST. If you don't have it, Borrow it or buy it. It is worth it. The only thing that could make it better would be if you could get it for free. Which I did. The local video game store, Game Over, had a used copy for $29.95. But they were offering 20% off due to the fact that the original game box was missing. On top of that, I received an additional 15% off because I'm a member. That brought the total down to around $20. Now, you might be wondering how I got . this for free. Well, it helps if you have over $30 in store credit. On to the next game.

Mini Ninjas! Cait used her Game Stop gift card to get this and she loves it! She runs around as, well.. a mini ninja. The ninja fights mini samurai and saves all of the forest creatures from enslavement from the evil warlord. Besides being adorable (her words!) she says that its a great way to unwind and kind of veg out. No real thinking involved. Besides the main quest, on each level, you can find plans, shrines, statues, animals and other things that almost amount to a side quest. And since we got it for the XBOX 360, it should be some fairly easy achievement point. I think at some point I'll run through it and grab the achievment.

For our third game of the evening, Alden (Cait's brother) got her Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii. While we haven't played this yet, I know Cait is really excited to get started on it. I am too. It means that I can have the XBOX back to play ODST! Of course it won't be in full HD glory, but oh well. That just means that we need a new TV for the bedroom (hint hint). But as for now, there isn't much I can really say about this game. I'll write something after we've played it. And now, I leave you with this:

99 Luftballons

On July 29, Cait celebrated her birthday (as some of you know). For her birthday, Savannah got her a nice ring and I planed out and entire day away from the baby. A couple of things to note. First, I spent a good two weeks planning the whole thing. It's hard and pretty stressful to organize a day of events and a party without Cait finding out. There were so many things that could have gone wrong. Second, for her day away, I put a group of items that represented different activities to do through out the day. With that in mind, let's get this day started! We started the day with some breakfast. That's usually a good thing to start the day with. After breakfast, I went and got the babysitter (which was also important to have). Once I got home and made sure that everything was ready for our departure, I collected the birthday girl and we set off. First stop, the jewelry store to pick up Cait's gift. Can you guess what I got her? Here's a hint: it's in the picture above this writing... on the right...did you figure it out? No...it's not a new ear...but rather the ear rings! Yay for me! It's even better because they have become her go-to ear rings.

After the jewelery, she wanted to go to the beach. You can see how well that worked out... On the recommendation of a friend, we went to Historic America Beach on Amelia Island. What I forget, was that she told us to go to the parking lot down the street. The road itself literally stopped at the beach. And as you can see, the HHR isn't for driving on the sandy beach. After I pushed while Cait backed it out back on to the pavement, we found the parking lot and walkway down to the water.

And this is what we were rewarded with. Sadly, this did not set it self up. That would have been nice. But it was worth it. Unlike Fernandina Beach, America Beach has facilities for changing and showers so that you can rinse off. It was nice being able to rinse off the sandy feet before getting into the car. During the time at the beach, we walked along the surf, sat and soaked up some humidity, and passed around the bottle of sparkling lemonade. All-in-all a good time.

The next stop that Cait selected from the bag of stops was Doing Dishes. It's a paint you own pottery studio. I've been wanting to take Cait to one for some time now and it seemed like this was a good time to do it. Only a couple of problems with this. First, this place is in the ghetto. I mean it. There was a shoot out across the street from them a couple of months ago. So, yeah. Ghetto. The second problem was that there was too much pottery to choose from. I think we spent a good 20 minuted just trying to figure out what we wanted to paint. I settled on a pen/pencil holder and a spoon rest. Cait went with a plate to hang on the wall. Once we decided what to paint, now we had to figure out what paint to use and how to paint our pieces. It was a pretty fun time. I'll post completed pics later. After all was said and done, the day was starting to wind down. Time to catch a movie and relax (as if we weren't relaxed to start with...). We headed over to an AMC theater and saw the Sorcerers Apprentice. It was OK. If you haven't see it, wait until its out on HBO or Redbox. I don't think it was worth the $20 that we spent on it. But once that was done, time to head home. Now, I'm not too good at keeping secrets, so it was almost impossible to keep my mouth shut and my excitement in check as we headed to Cait's surprise party.

I'm still not too sure how I pulled this off. With as many people as I told, Cait didn't even know what was going to happen when we got home. All she wanted to do was relax and play the Sims 3. Not today. There were a few friends waiting for us and a cake large enough to feed 40 people. Needless to say, we had plenty of leftovers. And although I didn't mention anything about gifts (I think I even said to not worry about it), she got a gift certificate to Game Stop, Michaels, and a smell good box from Bath & Body Works. She definitely had a good time. Well, that's it for this post. I leave you with this: Old Spice Guy being remixed!!!!