Triple Trouble

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Salt Con was the first weekend of March. Despite everyone being sick we had a lot of fun. We played a few new games and some old games. We bought a few games and a lot of toys. We painted miniatures, played in the Star Trek simulator, played a magical kittens RPG, and ate the continental breakfast at the hotel. 

Although we usually go to the pool almost every day during SaltCon this time the pool was under construction. 

After salt con the kids all had to go to the doctors and many of them got shots. Most of them recovered fairly quickly, however, Sara seems to have been impacted the most by the shots. Her arms hurt severely for more than a week, and she still seems to be a little bit lethargic, so that tetanus shot is pretty tough.

The kids got invited over to a party at the Wilson's. Timmy says that it was just a parade pretty much. Elsa says that it was great, and it had a lot of food and snacks and that she loved it. 

Mike and Alison saw Les Misérables at a theater downtown. We both really love that play, and they did a very good job of it. Strangely enough Gavroche did not have as big a part as he usually would (they had a little kid playing him, so perhaps that was the reason why).

Before the play we ate at a restaurant in the theater, which was very expensive, but which was also very tasty. We had a charcuterie board and some spinach artichoke dip and a chocolate torte.

On Friday Alison and the kids had a carnival party with cookies and balloons. They also made floats for Jello and invited all of the water's kids over for the party. They made ginger cookies which were very popular.

On Saturday we went to the thrift store in order to go shopping. One of the main things we wanted to buy was a bike for Gideon and a bike for Elsa and a bike for Timmy. We were able to get bikes for all of them, however, Timmy's bike has a broken tire so we're going to have to fix it before he can ride it.

 On Sunday Elsa started to learn how to ride her bicycle after Grandpa Mike pumped up all of the tires. She has been trying really hard, and can pedal now, even if she is not able to steer or balance yet. Elsa hurt her lip by falling down when walking back to the house after she was done practicing, however, other than that there were no injuries.

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