Sheep Guarding Llama

The girls tried playing some Move or Die with their cousins online this morning.  It did not work out really well, though.  That is a tough game in general and playing it online did not work out great.

This afternoon we packed up the girls and we took them to a splash park that Carrollton has.  We have never tried one of these before, but I had heard about it from one of the other parents at one of the regular playgrounds so I had a feeling that the girls would really love it.

It took a little driving around to find, but we found the splash park and it is not far from us at all.  And it is really nice, and very busy.  Lots of fun stuff.  The girls just loved it.

Such a great idea for the Texas heat.  The splash parks are going to be a new place for us to go.  And a great place for the girls to make local friends.

Dinner tonight was veggie dogs and corn on the cob.

The girls played Castle Crashers online for a while with their cousins this afternoon.  Then tonight the girls and I played more Book of Unwritten Tales together.  We did two more chapters of it tonight!

Today we signed the paperwork officially putting our Peekskill house onto the market.  Fingers crossed, we really want to sell it and be done with it.

I made tater tots for the girls tonight.

The kids played The Deer for a little while.  Then we all started playing The Book of Unwritten Tales, which is awesome.  Both of the girls played it back in 2014, but neither have looked at it since then.  So to them it is an entirely new game, which is great as they will get so much more out of it getting a whole new play through.

We played it a lot tonight and managed to get through two chapters.  Such a great game.  I’m so glad that the girls are having so much fun with it and are getting to play it again.

Twenty seven days on my DuoLingo streak on Spanish.  Yesterday I finally passed my all time Italian score there with Spanish.  I’m doing well.  Really moving forward with that stuff quickly.

After work today I had a gaming night with the girls.  Tonight we played The Journey Down: Chapter One which is a Caribbean themed adventure game.  We had a very nice time.  The game is easy enough to follow that the girls are able to play it quite a bit without a lot of help from me.  Not completely, of course, but they did great.  And they really like the story and the quirky characters.

We tried playing Worms Reloaded with the girls tonight, but the controls are so confusing that they did not get into it at all.

Liesl played a new game called Fire that she enjoyed.

After the kids moved towards bed I started playing a game that I’ve recently gotten into, Secret Files: Tungusta.  Old school adventure game that I am really liking.

A bunch of random people that I have never met before showed up at the house today.  It was a bit weird.  People kept coming to the door and just kind of barging in as if I didn’t even live here and was just some visitor opening the door for them.  Pretty odd.  I have no idea what was going on.

This afternoon, the family went up to Watson’s house for a fourth of July cook out party.  It was a good crowd and we had a really nice time.  The girls had a lot of fun, too.  We did our own fireworks at night and Liesl was even brave enough to try lighting her own Roman candle!

 

Monday.  Day twenty five of my Spanish streak on DuoLingo.

This morning’s project was to set up the kids with the Wii U that has been stored down in Houston for a few years.  The girls have been wanting to play it for a while and it has been gone for so long.  It was like getting a completely new toy at this point.

After all these years, we checked out to see if any good games had been made for the Nintendo Wii U.  As expected, no, none were every made.  Like all other Nintendo platforms, this was effectively abandoned after a few months of empty hype and nothing worth playing was ever really made for it.

Liesl did try out the old Wii game Super Paper Mario, that Dominica used to play.

Dominica and I watched Star Trek: Beyond today.

This evening Liesl, Luciana, and I played the elastic band puzzle game Elastrix.  It is cute and fun.