sea world

Yesterday I went on a field trip to Sea World with Jackson's kindergarten class, I was pretty excited to get to go, as I have not been on a field trip with the any of my kids in a few years. I also have not been to Sea World since I was 7 and the only thing that I remember about that was holding a starfish, although it's sure not a bad memory to have.

I had to get up at 5:30am for this one, which in my mind is an ugodly hour, and got very little sleep due to waking up every hour thinking I was going to oversleep, which is really funny because it isn't all that much earlier than I usually wake up. When we met up at the classroom, all the moms looked pretty spent, except for the one mom, that I will refer to as my new best friend, who thought to go to Starbucks and pick up a coffee traveler to share with all.

We got on the bus and the driver, who was kind of a nut, started to explain to us parents and a bus load of kindergartners about all of the emergeny exits and radios and first aid kits, but everything she said started with, "If I was rendered unconscious..." I was left wondering if she had some medical condition that nobody was telling us about, but I'll just say she didn't leave me with a great deal of confidence in her abilities. Then I got in trouble on the bus for leaning against the emergency door, and all I could think is, wow, I haven't been on a school bus in years, and yet I am once again pegged as the troublemaker, and I know she was staring at me in that giant rearview mirror of hers throughout the entire trip.

The rest of the day was typical field trip stuff, wrangling kids, taking pictures, a little sunburn, a little walking, many trips to the bathroom, and coming home really tired. They all seemed to have a good time, and nobody got lost, which for me is pretty good, I have a tendency to lose kids in crowded places. The video above (if I got it to work, otherwise ignore this sentence) is of the ride home on the bus, he later said he wasn't really asleep, just pretending (I don't buy it).

the black knight

I woke up from a dream about Monty Python this morning, specifically of the Black Knight in the Holy Grail, when he had his arms cut off and he was still taunting King Arthur, saying that it's only a flesh wound, and calling him a pansy. King Arthur would say, "You haven't got any arms", and the knight would say "Yes I have." I wonder what a dream interpretter would think of that.

I think about Monty Python often actually, and even though I haven't seen any of the movies in a few years lines from them float around in my head constantly especially when I'm driving, mostly becasue nobody could throw out a better insult than the French guy in the castle.

Someone cuts me off or isn't driving fast enough and I think, "You empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." or "Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person."

When there is something I am afraid to do, I think of the song:

When danger reared its ugly head
he bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about,
and valiantly, he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet,
he beat a very brave retreat.

All this stuck in my head from just one movie, imagine what would happen if I actually tried to fill it with any useful information. I probably have within me the answers to all of lifes biggest questions, they just can't escape the wall of Mel Brooks and Monty Python movie lines.

Oh well, I guess someone else will have to save the world.


*Side Note*
Iron Man was fantastic, can't wait for the new Indiana Jones.