hellish day

Woo hoo!  Thanks for all the meal suggestions.  I have already made a trip to Trader Joe’s to get started.  I am also going to make a list of things to look for at the regular grocery store.  

In other news, today was brutal. 

11:30 AM – 1:45

This morning we had a 4 year old’s birthday party at a big game/puttputt/gokart place.  The kids (and Mr. A) spent about an hour climbing in a three story tall hamster maze thing, then there was pizza and cake.  It sounds pleasant enough except that the thousands of children could bury the sound of a jet engine with their screaming. 

The two hours there was so exhausting, I (hypocritically) decided that we should skip Chinese school to regroup and power up for the rest of the day.

4:30 PM -6:00

Next came my worst nightmare realized.  We got free tickets to the My Little Pony World’s Largest Teaparty extravaganza from Mr. A’s work. 

Oh. My. Fucking. God.   It was like going to hell…with lots of pink and purple sparkles. 

The only upside was that we had tickets to the luxury box, so we got free dinner and treats.  I spent most of the time in the back of the box out of sight of the Ponies watching CNN on the TV.

6:00-7:30

The most chill part of our day.  We managed to squeeze in the birthday party of M’s oldest and dearest friend.  Fortunately, there wasn’t a sparkle or a my little pony anywhere in sight.  M frolicked in the yard with the other shorties, while Mr. A and I tried to recover our vision after the assault of sparklies from the Pony show.

8:00

Both children collapsed in exhaustion.  M fell asleep mumbling something about how much fun My Little Ponys were.

8:01

Mr. A and I collapsed in exhaustion mumbling something about satan disguised as a pony.