I had put our giant IKEA bookshelf for sale on Kijiji six months ago and someone actually wanted to buy it for the price I was asking. The difficulty was that it weighs over 150 pounds and is not easy to get up the stairs from the basement. You can imagine how excited Nicholas and Jacob were to be woken up at 9 AM to help me push this thing up the stairs and get it onto the back of the truck to deliver to Mckenzie Lake.
Nicholas was ecstatic to have the day off from stampede today and did not want to go down and do the rides so instead Jacob brought a friend named Vincenzo.
We parked the truck at the high school and caught the Ctrain as per usual. Vincenzo could not remember ever riding the train so I talked to his mom and she said he had not ridden it since he was five years old and he is now 14.
We arrived at the south end of stampede and got the boys their all day ride tickets and the boys proceeded to go on everything imaginable for the first two hours before it got too lined up and busy.
It was cloudy and threatening rain all day but held off for the most part while the boys were on the rides. There was no lineup for the log ride so I think they went about five times each. Both boys insisted on wasting money trying to win a mini motorcycle but no luck even though Jacob was very close one time. We had Hot dogs and corndogs for lunch and then went indoors to the corral to watch the motorcycle snowmobile ramp demonstration. Time flew by and it was time for me to go to work. Krista came from her office and took over. They all competed in the watergun race to win a T-shirt from the GMC truck display but had no luck as an older lady kicked their butts. Krista went off with them for the remainder of the day and did a lot of rides before it started to rain. By 9 PM she had had enough and took them home so that Jacob could have a sleepover at his friends house.
My day was the usual food prep, barbecue, exceedingly loud country music at Nashville North tent until 10 PM and then home on the train by midnight.
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