Max came home!

Thursday was the day Max came home from camp. At 5pm. It was also the day of the Alpine Farmer's Market. It was the day I got a prescription refilled at Alpine's new pharmacy. Otherwise, it was a day to sleep late and do things at home.

Max said he didn't like camp, but when he talked about it, he described a lot of things that he had fun at, like the huge water rec area in Pinedale that had a "Lazy River" you could float down. And he liked his tentmates.  It turned out some kids made fun of how much ketchup he put on his hot dog. That tipped the balance, I guess. 

Today, we've brought Max, Jayda and Aubrey to Afton. We'll have pizza and see  a movie  (Hotel Transylvania 3), but right now we're at the bowling alley/arcade next door . 

         Jayda and Max competing

        Aubrey shooting big game

Now I confess that when I was a kid, I loved what was called the "penny arcade." There were actually things you could do for a penny. Mostly for a nickel. Now it's a dollar or maybe 50 cents each. And there were fewer shooting games back then (though there were some). But the one Max and Jayda are doing is actually a driving game, which is not all that different from 75 years ago. 

Later:

Movie was actually quite entertaining in its own way, incredible animation, quite clever, a lot of subtle humor, both visual and verbal.  The kids seemed to enjoy it; pretty boistrous in the car coming home. The girls are here overnight.

      Scene from Hotel Transylvania 

When we came out of the theater, we looked across the road at a new Mormon church in Afton:

 Amazing to have this temple-sized church in a little town like Afton.