First, I took our car in for an oil change and found out the catalytic converter is going to need to be replaced soon, it needs new tires and also a new sensor or something -- meaning it might be time to trade her in and get something new.
Feeling a little sad, I drove home and realized it was too late to head over to a local children's museum to meet up with some of the neighbors and their kids. Instead we went to the library. Driving home, some guy in a big red truck pulled out from a side street and hit our car. Nobody was hurt but the back bumper of our car was dragging on the ground and Molly was all freaked out.
So we spend the afternoon dealing with the insurance company and comforting Molly.
Then at bedtime Jim found a tick on Molly's leg, so we had to sneak in to her room in the dark and pull the thing off while trying not to wake her up too much or scare her.
It was all minor stuff, but we spent the rest of the vacation week picking up the pieces -- taking the car to the body shop, seeing the doctor about the tick (Lyme disease is rampant here, but the NP said the tick wasn't on Molly nearly long enough to transmit disease --PHEW!!!).
We did manage to get to that little children's museum by ourselves the next day. Of course, we didn't get there until late morning on a day when rain was predicted so it was overcrowded and the parents were insane!! Molly had that kind of overwhelmed look on her face most of the time. We didn't stay long.
One cool part was the face painting. I thought Molly might be scared but she sat very still for the guy. The little girls in front of her in line wanted a lollipop, a rainbow and hearts. Molly looked at the page of options and chose a basketball. You could see it in this picture if her hair wasn't covering it.
She did get into the water table for a while.
This was a tube attached to a wall with a switch that turned on a little bit of air inside. She asked me to crouch down so she could "blow dry" my hair.
This is the big dinosaur outside.
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