The Amazing Race – Easter Edition.
Posted: April 16, 2006 Filed under: Uncategorized 11 Comments »If you’re Jewish, you really need to make your own fun on Easter Sunday. There isn’t much to do. The stores are closed. Your friends all have family gatherings. You get the picture. So today, Andrew and I planned an Amazing Race for the kids. Max will guest blog the adventure (via dictation)…. so here goes!
That’s Dad driving the van. He was acting like a taxi driver. It was funny!
There is me and Davis in the back. Don’t I look cute?
There’s Reed with the street map. Again, don’t I look cute?
Mom took this picture out the window. I think it looks like we’re on a train!
After Ellicott City, we had to go to a park where traveling passengers can be seen overhead and we figured out that we should go to the airport! North or South? We went North.
Isn’t it funny that there is a road called Coca-Cola Drive?
Look! We went the right direction!
These are my feet.
These are Reed’s feet. Aren’t they big?
Davis’ feet. Is he awake?
We’re at the park at the end of the runway where we watched the planes land. We had to count 5 planes before we got our next clue. It was loud! Then we used the porta-potties. They had urinals.
There’s Dad. He doesn’t like this picture, but Mom does. I don’t think he used the porta-potty. In case you wondered.
Next clue took us to a diner near Routes 1 and 175. We saw a lot of neat things on the way there. Mom saw a huge flea market and wanted to stop, but my brothers and I said “No Way.” When we got to the diner – Frank’s – we had to make paper “fortune-tellers” as a task before we went inside. We had a great meal! I had French Toast and bacon, Davis had eggs and sausage, Reed had pancakes. I don’t know what Mom and Dad had. Oh, we had milkshakes too. It’s a beautiful day.
I think Dad might have been going a little too fast. Maybe if he’d gone to the porta-potty, he wouldn’t have had to speed.
Was it fun? Yes, very fun. It was high pressure, but I really liked it. I want to compete with the Simons. So this is a challenge Simons! I’ll see you at the pit stop! Bye from Max.
OK, I want to go back in time and be a kid so you guys can be my parents. No knock on my folks, but y’all do some serious and seriously fun interactive parenting there. Congrats.
What an amazingly cool idea!
reading this post made me feel like the biggest loser mom. gawd. even when my kids are old enough i know i won’t do cool stuff like this.
How fun…can I be your kid? Pretty please?
Thanks all – what nice things to say. It was a very fun day. And hopefully memorable for the kids!
What a fun trip, and we can welcome Max to blog-world now. Gotta start ‘em early!
I would have been right beside you rooting for the flea market, but I guess we’d still have been outnumbered.
Those road signs look mighty familiar!
Great activity for your kids to keep them busy and have fun with the family too.
GNG- new photo! Nice! Yes, my little Max is growing up to be a blogger. I’m very proud. Maybe we’ll hit the flea market some day!
Junebee – Yup, good old I-95! Amazing how light the traffic was on Easter
I don’t know if that made me feel inspired or just plain tired, but it sure sounds like fun!
My wife and I can’t have kids, so we try to borrow my brother’s kids once in a while. They’re almost old enough for something like that…
Hi Chris! Yes, take the little ones soon – you won’t be sorry! Thanks for coming by!
We’re up to the challenge! Name the date and the Simons will be there!
The Simons (from Sean’s blog)
Sounds like a fun day. Just think, us Easter celebrators spent 12 hours driving on Easter Sunday. What a bummer! It’s okay it ended well with the boys putting on a great play called “The Easter that almost wasn’t!” Now there’s a good challenge for the Scherer- a play off!