Thunder and so much more....

So this past week has been a whirlwind of entertainment! Here's a quick highlight of everything we did:

Monday: Kelly went to the dental school for a cleaning, ran some errands. After FHE, I went to the movie with Shane's sister -- saw Juno. Really didn't like it that much. I'm not sure why it got so many great reviews.

Tuesday: Had a doctor's appt. and then came home right when Isabelle busted her lip -- HUGE amounts of blood. Yuck! Went with Britney to get our hair cut. She did a MAJOR cut while I just went for a basic trim.

Wednesday: More errands and then went out with our friend's the Romney's to eat and play games. They have this cool game called "Masterpiece" that was surprisingly fun!

Thursday: Started taking care of Shane's boss's dog while they were out of town. It felt super weird going over to their house several times a day to let the dog out. Went to the mall with Brit and the kids. We took some pictures in one of those photo booths and I yelled at some obnoxious teenage boys. I'm sure I totally embarrassed Britney!

Friday: Britney went home, Kelly had soccer practice, had my parents over for dinner.

Saturday: Kelly had a soccer game, went to Thunder over Louisville. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's North America's largest annual fireworks display. It's 30 minutes long and pretty freakin' huge! We go every year with my family and this year was just as fun -- I even saw one of my best friends from High School that I hadn't seen in YEARS. Anyway, we were lucky enough to have tickets to the Muhammad Ali Center to watch thunder (instead of being outside with everyone else!) Anyway, it had fantastic food and lots of games for the kids.


My favorite game for the kids was when they were playing the dradiel game. It was so funny seeing the kids spinning the dradiel and then playing with these fake gold coins. The best part was when Isabelle spun her dradiel and because of the symbol it landed on, she had to put one gold coin into the pot. Well, my girl has gamblin' in her blood and tried to go "all in". It was hilarious! She really wanted all of those coins in the pot!!!!

Since we were in the Muhammad Ali Center, we also got to tour the museum about his life. It was pretty amazing seeing all of the information about his boxing career and seeing all of the old films of him "talking smack" (I love it when I talk cool). He was an amazing self promoter! His fights were incredible and his determination was unreal. It was also surprising to see how loved he was at the time, but still had to deal with so many problems related to race. There were lots of cool things about the museum, but one of the kids' favorites (and Shane's too) was the "shadow boxing". It was a technique that Ali did to practice fighting against different opponents. They had a shadow boxing station where you could shadow box with Muhammad Ali. Here's a video of Isabelle goin' at it:




Finally that night we watched the fireworks display. It was absolutely amazing! The attendance was pretty low this year. The count this year was a little over 300,000. However, that count only includes the people that watch the show on the river front (the display is done off of one of the bridges on the Ohio river). A lot of people like us watch from Inside buildings downtown or on rooftops. the largest crowd ever recorded was 800,000 which once again does not include people inside buildings or on rooftops. I'm not sure if that includes the people watching on the Indiana side of the river either. Here's a clip I found of the finale for thunder. It's not the best quality and only shows one Barge shooting off fireworks. When you watch in person, there are fireworks coming off the bridge and then fireworks coming off of two huge barges. Pretty darn cool. Anyway, that's our week in review!