Adventure Day

It’s been a wildly fun August. The last week in particular has been very busy as we have been intentionally keeping each day filled with activities. 

On Tuesday night, Aaron, Ryan, Logan, Reese, and I went to a late movie. We wanted them to see the Odyssey. Aaron hated it. I grew up doing Greek Theatre in the performing arts program at my school and with Odyssey Theatre Company. I read the Odyssey in high school and the Iliad in college. Some of these stories are etched into my mind and are a big part of my childhood, especially the elementary school years.  [Shout out Annie (Grover) Gilbert, you were the best Helen of Troy. And Mr H, there will never be another cyclops.] I didn’t consider that Aaron has no familiarity with the tales of the Odyssey, and everything was a new concept to him from the sirens to the Trojan horse. I loved it. But it makes sense why Aaron was bored.  

After the movie, Ryan announced that we needed an adventure day and to come over first thing Wednesday morning. I wasn’t sure exactly what he had in mind, but I was charged with finding a trickle battery, and we met in the morning to run errands while Reese and Logan drove to Russellville to get Reese’s last name changed on her social security card. 

Wooo doggies I love me an adventure day. 

We drove out to the Mains’ warehouse and loaded up a Seadoo! Ryan has this bit when someone says “money can’t buy happiness”, he always responds with “have you ever been on a jet ski?” My answer was no, so adventure day was going to change that. 

We hauled it back to Bentonville, plugged in the jet ski to charge, and continued on with Adventure Day agenda. 

A driving lesson. 

Not for the teenager. 

For the mom. 

We went to the temple parking lot (coincidentally where I taught Quincy and Corbin how to drive) in Ryan’s little Miata and he taught me how to drive a manual stick shift. 

I surprise myself and stalled out less than I expected to. Ryan kept time and says I can proudly announce that I learned to drive in 6 minutes. Go me. Also, still kind of scary and I would not Feel safe at all out of the comfort of the temple parking lot temple loop and on the main road. A great start though. Not that I really need to drive a stick, but it would be nice if I at least know how. 

We visited with missionaries in the parking lot, had lunch at a Torchy’s, went to the gym, picked up paddle boards from Kasey’s, watched an episode of Cowboy Bebop, and then headed out to Beaver lake where we met Reese and Logan. 

Ok so I have never been on a jet ski before. I found it to be kind of scary! The four of us swam and played and the water was so warm I could just cry that summer is coming to an end and I did not spend nearly enough time in the lake. 

It was windy and the lake was choppy, but it was so warm we didn’t care. We’ll go back very soon

We played until Aaron was off work. Big thank you to Corbin for helping with after school pick ups today so adventure day could happen. He’s a good brother.

 But wait, there’s more! 

Adventure Day continued! 

We threw real clothes back on in Bentonville, met up with Aaron and went to Fayetteville with lake hair. 

We got to George’s Majestic on Dickson street just in time to catch Jonah Kagen. 

This was also an adventure. He has 3 songs we 

really like. Tickets were only $10 so we took a risk. He played those 3 songs, one being The Roads, which is a Quincy favorite, and it was worth it just for that. It’s indie acoustic folk pop. 

But he also played his new stuff. 

Erm….it sounds like our boy Jonah is going through it and has been listening to a lot of Radiohead. Very Emo. Every new song sounded like Karma Police. 😂 we heard our 3 favorite songs and left a little early. The old songs were good and his banjo guy was awesome. We hit late night Taco Bell and had some car karaoke on the drive home. Sun up to sun down, I loved adventure day.