January 3, 2009

i heart seattle

We had such a fun day. We took the kids to pike place. Then we went to the center house for some lunch. Michael and I enjoyed a lick from our favorite ice cream shop. Then we thought it would be fun to let Noah go on a ride at the fun forest. He was totally excited. Tickets are $1 each and the rides are all at least 2 tickets. No biggie, we'd just use debit. The trouble was that you can't use debit on less than a 4 ticket purchase. We're cheap and didn't want to spend $4 for no reason. So we decided to look at how much cash/change we had. I had exactly $1.87 in change. We went on a hunt for the last 13 cents. Michael inconspicuosly looked under the arcade games and vending machines. No luck. We decided to walk over to the Space Needle and look around the gift shop and if we didn't find the change we needed, we'd forget about the ride. And hope Noah would too. Michael thought we should look for some sort of fountain to find change. He went in to the fountain right outside the space needle and grabbed
13 rusty pennies
Luckily the fountain was empty
Noah couldn't have been happier. He gave the guy his ticket himself and then sat on the ride with total confidence. That was short lived. The ride had to be stopped early for poor Noah. He's getting so big but he's still our cautious two year old.
Still a really fun day.

2 comments:

andre'a said...

Frenchie, that's hilarious! I love that all of that work produced a shorter-than-should-be ride! So cute, though, what you and Michael will do to appease sweet Nonah.

Laurel said...

That story is too funny!