Nightmares and cats

It rained torrentially here on Friday and Saturday and quite frankly we are so spoiled by our year round good weather (even the hot stuff) that most every day revolves around some sort of outside activity. So when nerves were wearing thin on Saturday afternoon, Ellie put on her raincoat and grabbed her monkey umbrella and we headed to an indoor playscape/coffee shop. Now I had already anticipated that it would be kind of crazy but I've been there on a weekend before so I thought I knew the scope of insanity we'd be dealing with. Do you hear that noise? Yes that's probably every last one of you chuckling because clearly I am so very stupid. It was like if you took every child who has ever been on Super Nanny and their dumb parents and sent them to this place. I expect that children will attempt to walk up the slides, that's what kids do. But I also sort of expect that parents will be kind of supervising their kids and notice that when their kid is climbing up a slide and a child is sliding full bore into them, maybe you should tell your kid to get off the slide. I do not expect the dads of these children to be walking up the slides. Seriously, what kind of grown up are you?

After literally 10 minutes of being seriously concerned about my child's safety, I left. Oh, I have a great idea, let's go to the paint your own pottery place I thought. That would have been a great idea if I'd been driving the deLorean from Back to the Future because apparently the paint your own pottery place closed down. From the looks of the abandoned storefront, several months ago. Because she was being a total good sport about the whole ordeal I really figured I owed Ellie some outing. At this point all I could think of was PetSmart.

Well we hit paydirt at PetSmart. Now we've been there before but every time Ellie is amazed at what she finds "LOOK mama, I found a TURTLE!" Imagine that, right there in the tank with that turtle sign on the front. But the best part was the cat adoption area. It appears that it is someone's job to come up with sales pitches for the cats. I had to photograph them because I'm afraid no one would believe that there's a "gossiping" cat available for the asking right up there at PetSmart.