Dollar Store Date Night

Tonight's date was brought to you by:

The Dollar Store

Or, more precisely, the 99cent store. Hooray!

So, here's how it worked. We each picked out and bought five items each, but we were not to show the other what we purchased. We kept our items hidden in our bags till we got home and revealed to each other what we'd be doing that night.

It was quite interesting to see what we ended up with:

Let's see...
I came back with:
1. Bubbles
2. sidewalk chalk
3. Finding Nemo sand molds
4. spiky plant and
5. plant pot

John got:
1. 3D Dinosaur foam puzzle
2. plant pot
3. flower plant
4. Christmas CD and
5. 2 100 Grand candy bars (good thing he covered the treat!!!)

We ended up deciding we'd go to the beach tomorrow to make our sand figures because we were running out of daylight. We'll go tomorrow!! But we used everything else!!!

We started off at the park, on the way there we listened to our new Christmas CD. Here is John singing Frosty the Snowman for your listening pleasure.

I learned that John has been DEPRIVED his whole life because he'd never drawn chalk outlines of himself or anyone else! So that's what we did with the chalk.

Sorry the lighting's not so good. It was getting dark...that in between time. And we had to use the old camera. The new camera is on a trip to the repair place right now...

Here is John - can you tell he's excited for Hawaii this summer?

And me!

We finally (according to John) ate his candy bars. He'd wanted to since we came back from the 99cent store, but I kept telling him NO! He tried twice to eat them, but I said we had to eat them "on the date". And we had to take a picture because it was one of our items. So here you go:

And 100 Grands aren't really my thing (the candy bar, anyway...hee hee) So I gave John my second half

Then we blew BUBBLES! Love it! The sad thing was that it was FREEZING at the park! Okay, freezing being freezing for San Diego, which we are USED TO at this point...so below 60 is pretty chilly for us...for it being 3 days till June...anyways...

Here is me being...well..."bubbly"

The audio isn't that great on this camera either. I just said "aw I got sand in my shoes!"

And some more...

John blew some awesome BIG bubbles! So fun!




We came home and warmed up and made our foam dinosaur. Definitely dollar store quality... but, that is to be expected ;)

For one, the instructions were much too serious for my liking...it's a foam dinosaur! And the didn't make grammatical sense..so that was fun ;)

According to the instructions:
"1. First. carefully push out each piece from the Foam board with fingers"
Okay, Check...

"2. Get general idea of where each part goes..."
General idea? what? We skipped that step ha ha

Step 3 kinda made sense...but step 4 was the best:
"4. Glue is not necessary be used to assemble"

Then the last part of the dollar store date: Planting our new plants. I kill plants by the way...my visiting teacher gave me a cute little flower plant in a little bucket last Thursday...and it's dead. Sorry Lora...

John's much better with plants.
If we ever have a garden, i probably won't be entrusted with much...

diligently making sure I put enough dirt in the little pot

Aw, having a bonding moment before I unwittingly kill my new plant.

Here is our little collection. The pink bucket on the far right would be my most recent casualty...and John takes care of the one in the big red pot. yeah.

After all the activities, we hit our favorite frozen yogurt place and we had a nifty get one free so even our dessert cost only about a dollar! OH YES...i love it!

Stay tuned for tomorrow's adventures...gotta make Nemo sand molds!!!!!!!!!!!