The Egg and I

My dad's brother Ron manages one of The Egg and I's in Denver just up the road from where we are staying.  Sara, his daughter and my cousin, works there also.

Mom and Dad treated us to breakfast there this morning and it was so yummy!  After that we got directions to the mall and headed out to do some school shopping.  Travis and Tyrel got approached to watch a movie for 1/2 hour and get paid $15.  I knew it was not going to be as good as they thought it would be.  So, they watched.  They said it was horrible!  They got their checks and were then told that they had to spend $7.50 of it at the food court at the Mall.  So, they got lunch and their $7.50 in change.

We went back to my grandparents for everyone else to eat lunch and then took the kids swimming at the Rec Center.  They had fun although Tyler got kicked out because he had basketball shorts on instead of swim trunks.  Luckily, there was a nice life guard there that had a spare pair of trunks in his locker and let Tyler wear them.  They said it was because of health reasons that you have to wear swim wear and you can't wear a T-shirt either.  Can anyone explain this to me because we couldn't think of a good reason?

For dinner we went to Casa Bonita.  This was always a favorite when we were growing up.  The food isn't so good, but the atmosphere is really fun and the kids had a great time.

We went back to my grandparents and watched a DVD of pictures of my grandma growing up that Terri had made her for Christmas.  It was fun to hear her commentary and to see the pictures.  The kids asked some questions and we learned about the car grandma learned to drive, that she worked in a matress factory making trailer cushions, what she did when she worked with IBM and about lots of different places that they lived.  Grandpa told us that he never got shipped out to war, he took electronics classes in the military and his whole group got shipped out except for him.  This happened three different times and they eventually asked him to be an instructor for the electronics class.  I never knew that electronics is what he did.

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