Outdoor Adventures (with your hosts Ellie and William)

So Ellie, William, and I have been enjoying the great outdoors. The above is a video of Will sporting his new shoes. Thanks Deborah, they are really fun! You should watch it. It is funny.

I took Ellie and William to the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay. It was for really for Ellie and her joy school group. (It's really great. If you happen to be in town, you should go. Ellie enjoyed herself emmensely. She kept wanting to talk to the fish, which meant that she wanted to listen to the tour guide-in-an-electronic-stick tell her about the fish. She informed us on the way home that jellyfish are NOT really fish. I think she learned a lot more than I did.) They passed out these hats as pictured above. Ellie loves hers. She thinks it is her crown. As we walked down the path near our front door, Ellie was shouting, "I am the Queen!", interspersed with, "I am the King." She's a little confused about that. I try to tell her that girls are queens, but sometimes she forgets. But hey, that's what childhood is for, right? Pretend. For now she can be anything she wants to be. I was suprised that William wore his hat for as long as he did.

Later, after obtaining Ellie's Halloween trick-or-treating pumpkin that she plays with all year long, we went back outside. I was talking to my friend, Sheri, on the phone. I didn't notice until after the conversation was over that Ellie had filled the pumkin with rocks from the landscaping from all over our condo community. I hope that there are not hidden cameras on the premisis.