One final memory from our trip to Tennessee. On our first day Grayson discovered the Arcade. It was walking distance from our condo, and Grayson was positively entranced by the glitzy games and - oh my - the TICKETS you win when you play them. He would carry them around in his pockets and pull them out and show them to us and count them over, and over, and over.
He loved the Arcade so much that it was pretty much all he wanted to do. He called it "The Games," as in "When are we going to go play the games, Daddy, when? . . . right now?" We heard this all day long, and when we tucked him into bed, and first thing when he woke up. "The Games" were clearly the highlight of the trip for Grayson.
And to his delight, on the last day of our trip, after several trips to the Arcade, he was able to turn in the tickets and pick out . . . A PRIZE! This was even more exciting than the tickets themselves, if you can imagine.
So for his 300 or so tickets (thanks to Daddy helping out by playing ski-ball and video poker) he picked out a shiny green hula hoop. And for the rest of the day he went around playing with . . . his Hupa Loop. I could not correct him. It was just too sweet. He won't be 4 forever. Very soon he'll get the names of everything right. So for now, and hopefully for a little while longer, he will keep on playing with his hupa loop.
1 comment:
Aaahh - so sweet. Love it! The "Game Room" at the beach was a big draw for Ben too. He only earned enough tickets for a Tootsie Pop, though. :)
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