I'll explain that statement in a bit. First, I need to rewind to yesterday.

Yesterday, the family, sans my father, went up to Charleston, SC to visit the South Carolina Aquarium. We didn't get to Charleston until about 3:45. Before heading to the aquarium, we stopped at a McDonald's. My mother had a craving for an ice cream cone. She orders five, one for herself, her three kids in the car, and Beth's friend, Brittany. The lady taking the order proceeds to tell my mother they limit drive-thru orders to 2 cones. This threw us all for a loop. My mother responds and asks the lady not even if there are 5 people in the car? Finally, they said okay. The whole car had a good laugh over the limiting of ice cream cones.

We entered the aquarium at about 4:30. Yes, it took us about 45 minutes onces we got into town to combat traffic, park, and walk to the aquarium. It was outside the front door that we met Nicki and her boyfriend. We stayed at the aquarium until closing time. I took about 35 pictures of the place with my phone. I only uploaded 3 of them to my moblog since I have plenty of photos posted of the place from my visit in February. My mother had a camera, too, and she took plenty of photos. The aquarium also had a photo "booth" just before you entered the aquarium but after you get tickets. The whole party posed for a photo. My mother ended up buying 2 copies of that photo.

After the aquarium closed, we stopped at Ruby Tuesday for dinner, except Nicki and her boyfriend. They had to attend a graduation in Charleston. We spent nearly 2 hours at the restaurant just cutting up and relaxing before getting back on the road. We didn't get home last night until nearly 11. However, the family had fun and we haven't done something like this in a while.

This morning, my siblings and I were to go to the 97.3 Kiss FM exclusive screening of Madagascar. Beth ended up ill and couldn't go. She had a severe case of tonsillitis. Nicki was at her boyfriend's and Matthew stayed up all night. So, I had 4 tickets to this movie and only got to use 2, since I couldn't get 2 others to come at the last minute. My mother ended up seeing the movie and she enjoyed it. She found much of the humor to be adult humor. It's marketed as a kids' movie, but my mother said she wants it on DVD. The topic line comes from a scene in the movie where the giraffe, Melman - a hypochondriac, goes into the men's room at Grand Central Station. He comes out just gushing over the restroom. He's in awe of the big sinks and the mints. No Melman, that's NOT a mint.

Before the show, the radio station was giving away a bunch of goodies. Since this was mainly a kids' event, I tried not to be greedy and let the real kids have the stuff. I was lucky to get a stuffed Melman. Well, the kids there were greedy! One little girl wasn't content with just one stuffed toy. She got herself another toy! And a mouse pad was thrown in my direction. My mother told me to give it to the little girl, so I did. Only later did my mother see that the girl I gave the mouse pad to made out with a lot of loot. Seeing the greedy kids, my mother didn't feel so bad with me winning a copy of Maroon 5's Songs About Jane. I only won that because most of kids probably did not remember that Kiss FM helped to bring Maroon 5 to Armstrong last year. I did to answer the question correctly. In fact, just a few minutes prior to the me getting the CD, I told my mother the glut of kids rushing the Kiss FM crew to get the toys were like the teenage/young 20-year-old age girls in skimpy outfits rushing to the stage at that concert.

Well, that's a long enough update for now. Now to get Misty out of the tub.

[♪ Listening to: "Reach" - Meredith Edwards]

Posted by Shawn at May 28, 2005 5:35 PM in Entertainment, General.