We ate Texas BBQ, Famiky Style Babes Chicken, rock climbed and zip lined, performed at the Meyerson Center, shopped at Buc-ees, played football and lawn games and ate fancy donuts in a park downtown between 4 scheduled rehearsals.
Bolder adventure park highlights: zip lining, the big tube slides, and this arcade game that captivated 20 kids attention. It started with student and a game card. Corbin’s group of boys looked their play points together into one game where a machine spits quarters onto a plate. Knocking quarters off the plate grants more points. You also knock sponge bob character cards into a basket for big points. Collect ALL 9 character cards (which fall at random) and you earn the grand prize of 5000 tickets for the prize shop. The first few cards were collected easily,
And then they were too invested to quit. The crowd gathered around this machine grew bigger and bigger and the suspense to the point that none of us could tear ourselves away. Noah was the best at timing the quarter shoot so he was designated shooter. The rest of us were there for moral support. All but one card remained. Sandy the Squirrel, just out of reach.
Along came a group of girls, who asked “how long have you guys been here?”
Without even looking up from the game they all gave answers into the air, “too long”, “shhhhh don’t jinx this, we’re so close!” And “long enough that I missed my zip lining time slot and I’m not even sad about it. Come on Sandy!”
We watched the Sandy card get closer and closer to the prize drop. The girls gave up the remaining turns on their cards as well. Two of them almost missed their zip lining appointments as well, Bethany left by handing over her card and a charge to the boys to “win Sandy!”
The kids would whisper chant “Sandy. Sandy. Come on Sandy, you tease!”
The moment Sandy dropped into the bin was victorious. They divided their winnings up at gave 2,000 to Bethany for providing the winning token. They bought a football with the rest of their pooled prize points and played football the rest of the trip anytime they had a 5 minute wait and a lawn or parking lot.
Montgomery, Peyton “PTibby”, Corbin, James S
Our VIP chaperone tickets places us in the 3rd row at the Meyerson. Incredible. We were the closing performers. Standing ovation right away. Lots of parents and grandparents made the drive. Even Mr Puckett the vice principal at BHS was there. What a goat. We love his support for the arts, and the kids all wanted selfies with him.Soren and Titus ran around with the big boys and then with Flora. It was a dream day of no school for them!
I must have set my phone down at some point because I found 25 photos just like this one on my camera roll.
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