The Year of the Mouse

Road trip one summer
  1. Intro
    1. Children ages 2 & 5
    2. Mickey Mouse's 60th birthday
    3. Giant Hot air balloon - Ear force one
    4. How do you spell Mickey Mouse?  Show many spelled it [sing] M-I-C-K-E-Y--M-O-U-S-E
  2. Boise
    1. Why are cars parked along the freeway and overpasses?
    2. ROAR!  Blue Angles flew inches above the car
  3. Yellowstone
    1. Missing keys
      1. Baby travel all day - awake all night
      2. Looked for the keys - how much for a locksmith? - look harder
      3. Baby played quietly - used the pots as stacking toys - put keys inside
    2. Take only pictures. Leave only footprints.- what about a shoe??  Shoe lost on hike with baby in back pack
  4. Bad lands
    1. Description
      1. Wind eroded sculptures
      2. 105o in the shade -- there's no shade
    2. Gift shop
      1. A gift shop in the bad lands selling sea shells???
      2. Show shell to daughter.
      3. Put it up to her ear
      4. She shows it to the baby - "You can hear the toilet flushing "
  5. Short Cut
    1. Me: "let's take this short cut and save some time"
    2. Wife: "You will get us lost"
    3. Later wife wakes from nap: "Do you know where we are?"
    4. Me: "No ... but we're making very good time"
  6. Store
    1. To find a store - look for biggest spot on the map
    2. well ... look of 2nd biggest - the 1st biggest is from when the map was used for fly swatter
    3. Daughter asks [supply the answer while list in things we need] "what's 1+1 ...  2+2 ... 4+4 ..."
    4. Wife: "You didn't get half the things we need"
    5. Unit pricing (50 eight oz cups priced per oz)
  7. Grandpa's Birthday
    1. 5 years older than Mickey Mouse
    2. 65 trick candles
    3. How do you put them out?
    4. Looking back at all the fun
    5. Lost keys
    6. Lost us
    7. 105o
    8. Quality time with the in laws
    9. Next time - Work instead