I hope you had a Happy July the 4th! We did! We went to the dog park, and we got very tired! I snuggled up with the dogs on the way home and napped...
When we got home, I played with a slingshot rocket that Grandpa gave me. Unfortunately, I shot it up onto the garage roof! Grandpa tried to wash it down with the hose, but that didn't work. So he tried throwing a rope with a glove attached, and that worked! It fell in the gutter, but Grandpa is tall enough to get it out of there. That was SO FUNNY!
For our 4th of July dinner, we had hot dogs and potato chips and pickles. We decided to make a red, white and blue dessert! Grandpa made shortcakes, and grandma colored the whipped cream blue. The strawberries were the red. YUM!
We went down to the River to watch the fireworks. THEY WERE AWESOME! Some of them were hearts and smiley faces! How do they DO that?!! There were some nice people there who let me hold a couple of sparklers - cool! The best part was, I got to stay up SO LATE! The fireworks didn't start until 10:15 at night, so I didn't get to bed until about midnight! I was tired, but it was a great day.
One of the other things I did was draw a giraffe in chalk, allllllll down the whole backyard sidewalk, from the back door to the garage. Grandma and Grandpa helped me!
Of COURSE, we have been doing more mystery shopping. Grandma said I am her trainee. I am really good at helping her remember things, and I always check the restrooms for her when we go to a restaurant. I make sure the floor is clean and there is enough soap and paper towels. My favorite place to mystery shop is when we get to go to Costco. They give out samples! One day, we had steak, and chocolate cake, and fruit snacks, and lemonade, and popcorn, and pickles, and pizza, and yogurt... and I don't remember what else. We ate dinner late that night!
Sometimes we get to do really neat stuff... like, ride on a two-story carousel at the mall!
One day, I saw these weird red and white striped sticks by the fire hydrants. Grandma told me that they stick up out of the snow, when the snow gets deep, so that nobody runs over the fire hydrant when they plow the snow. I couldn't believe the snow gets that deep in Minnesota! That's WAY over my head!
I like to ride in the race car strollers at the mall. Grandma says it keeps me out from under her feet.
One day, we went to a Chinese grocery store. It was stinky! But they had all kinds of yummy snacks. They had live frogs! And crabs! And crawdads and fish and oysters and snails! This is a lion statue that was by the front door. I was trying to make the same face as him...
We got to go back to Valleyfair, AGAIN! This time, grandma had to buy cokes at five different places, and give them prizes if they did everything right. It was awesome, there were no lines for ANYTHING! We rode the Monster (Octopus) twice, and we rode the big rollercoaster twice! Grandma accidentally lost her wallet on the rollercoaster, but when we went back - they had found it. *WHEW*!!!
Something really cool happened, too... I got to be FAMOUS! We watched a show, and one of the singers came down and sang to me, then made me get up and dance with her while she sang! She was pretty! I told Grandpa that I will talk to the paparazzi if they show up, but ONLY ONE TIME.
I ended up getting a new fish, because the carnival goldfish didn't make it. :( Instead, we got a betta. He is really pretty! He is a double-tailed male, and he is white with blue streaks. He is so healthy and he shows off all the time! When we came out of the Petco, it was funny because somebody with a car JUST like grandma's parked right next to her, and she tried to get in the wrong car!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!!!
The scariest thing that happened, was that I lost my Nintendo DS yesterday. We went to Costco, then to a thrift shop, then to Trader Joe's, then Petco. When we got home, I could not find my DS! Grandpa searched the car. I was sooooooooooooooooo sad. :( I cried, but I didn't give up hope. Grandma called around to everyplace, and guess what??? SHE FOUND IT! It was at Trader Joe's. I forgot that I took it in, and I left it at the sample station when I got a Root Beer Float sample. OOPS! I will be sooooo much more careful from now on! Grandma said SHE will, too! We are the luckiest people on earth. She got her wallet back, and I got my DS back! We had a pizza party, with hats, to celebrate!
Today, we took Grandpa to the airport again. He has to go to New York for work, so me and Grandma have ourselves to each other for 16 sleeps! That's 17 days. Then, another week or so after that, and I will be going home! Seems like the summer has gone so fast. Grandpa and Grandma are both coming with me, so we can go to Mommy and Whitney's party. I can't wait! I still have a lot of fun stuff to do here in Minnesota though... there's a zoo, and swimming, and maybe we'll even get to go to Valleyfair AGAIN! But THIS time, we won't have to do any work. Just have fun.
Talk to you soon!
Love,
Marleecat
