Where the Buffalo Party

Well all is right again in the Planoamy world. Sweetie is peachy keen again and nestled on the couch with a nice WWII book at present. I thought I would update you all on that so you could go back to the warm fuzzies normally associated with my little posts.

Oh, and Hooray! We went to the birthday party and took our present and he liked it best! He liked it better than the inflatable bouncy house! Heheh. Not that this is a big deal or anything.

Yes, Sunday was the big party, and let me say for a kid's birthday it was a lot of fun. We trekked over to Shelbyville--a pleasanter drive you couldn't have unless you had a vanilla coke from Sonic to sip along the way. Over hill, through dell, around raccoons who had seen better days, we made our way to the Buffalo Crossing Fun Ranch and Petting Zoo. We were slightly, well, disinclined to believe this would be much fun for us. Since we are of course culture snobs. Ha. But anyhow, the kid's parents must really love him because they rented a "Buffday" cabin for his party, and a bouncy house and we all got to go on a wagon ride to see the white buffalo and the camels and the goats (supposedly those narcoleptic goats too, although none of the grownups had the, um, nerve to make a loud noise and see if the goats really would stiffen up and fall over for a minute. Geesh!) The kids got to pick pumpkins, and they had a buffet lunch with real fried chicken and what they said were bufalo meat hamburger patties. I went poultry in this case. After all of this it was time for the presents, and again this year we came through with flying colors!

We don't know what is cool. I admit that right now because after watching him shred paper on a few boxes, I learned there is a show called Teen Titans, and some kind of Spongebob Squarepants doll that rips his pants, and a robot that turns into a car. We didn't even try to compete on that level. No we went stealth--low tech toy shoppers were we. We knew he liked animals so Sweetie picked out a jungle safari set that kind of looked like legos without the building feature. Well he got to that present and just decided to sit down and open it and play with that and let the kids go out to the bouncy house--and he still had a table full of gifts. Score for us! It was exciting, and fun, and a good time was had by all. After a round of cake and Happy Birthday, the kids were running around like they were on crack and the parents all looked like they could just stretch out on a picnic table and sleep for a few hours. We made a gracious exit and giggled to ourselves all the way home, holding hands and dodging raccoons.