Emmy goes to Disneyland!

I decided to take Emmy to Disneyland for her birthday, since I took Christopher for his birthday. I was really looking forward to it, b/c I wanted to see how she liked the park. I had everything pretty well planned out, except that when I got to the park, I found that I had forgotten my Memory Card for my digital camera... oops. Good thing I had my cell phone camera for some backup.

The first ride that we did was the Pooh Adventure ride. I had never been on it and from the pictures online, it looked like an outdoor ride. Nope. It was sorta like Mr. Toads... which was probably not the easiest first ride, but Emmy got over the initial shock pretty quick and she clapped her hands at the end of the ride. Same thing for Casey Jr, the train. Quick cry at first, clap at the end. Small World? No such luck. Those little animatronic figures, repeatedly chanting the same thing over and over even creep me out... plus I don't think she liked getting bumped repeatedly at the end of the ride. However, Toontown went over well. We went through the houses and then she was getting pretty tired. So we took the monorail back to Downtown Disney... and yes, she cried on that :-)

That Emmy!

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Another major development milestone hit...

C hit another major development milestone tonight when I dusted off my old gen 3 Sega Genesis and fired up NHL Hockey... That's right, the original, no year version. The one they reference in Swingers as being better because it still had fighting. The OG of all hockey games... except Blades of Steel of course. Probably the greatest game of all time...

Anyway, when we started it up, he was pretty excited. I think I had set some pretty high expectations. The first game we played, we were the Nordiques (with a young, spry Joey Sakic) taking on the Minnesota Northstars. When C asked if we could play another team, I said of course not... are you crazy? The Nordiques are my team, I always played with them in college... how could I change now? Needless to say, he didn't get that at all... Our first game was a regular season game that ended in a tie - typical. Try explaining to a 5 year old how a game can end in a tie... So we went back and played the playoffs... losing in the first round to a stacked Bruins team with both Cam Neely and Ray Bourque (the beast). All in all, I do think he liked it. He was getting the controls down pretty well - the sega system was always the best b/c it was just so simple. You could play it in any condition!

Oh yeah, Emmy turned two today as well - Happy Birthday Little E!!!!