Guitar Hero

After school, Lydia and I went to Target. It was Lydia’s first visit there. I had a list of about 10 items that I needed to get, but it was a slow trip. I know that Lydia had not been in a store like this one ever. She said that the choices that were offered were overwhelming. We looked at the “dollar” section to see if she saw any toys to take home to her son. She found a couple of things but decided not to purchase them at the time. It was fascinating to see Target from her perspective. We as Americans are so spoiled with all of the options that are right there. And half of the stuff we do not need. I told Lydia that I take a list to Target, and more often than not, I end up walking out of the store with more than what was on my list. When we were leaving, she asked, “Lisa, did you get only what was on your list?” I replied, “No, Lydia. I got more.” Shameful…

After Target, Lydia and I went over to Nicole and Ashley Walker’s for dinner. I was really excited to have a wonderful home cooked meal cooked by someone else. There was a great group of people there: Brooke, Nichole, Lydia, Nicole, Ashley, their daughter Ashton and myself. We began the evening by snacking on some great appetizers. Then I discovered Nicole and Ashley’s Wii. Nicole set up Rock Band for us, and Lydia got a guitar and Brooke got a guitar. And they were terrible. They kept getting booed off the stage, so I stepped in thinking that I would be able to help… I am not sure what I was thinking as I have only played Guitar Hero twice before. So we started… and were terrible. Nichole stepped in and helped Lydia get farther. However we did laugh a lot. Dinner saved us.

After dinner, we decided to try Wii bowling. Lydia, Brooke, Ashton (4 years old), and I played. As were were playing, Lydia said she had never seen bowling before or heard of it. My mouth dropped open as she was close to beating me at the game. I told her we were going to go actually bowling before she left. Surely she can’t be as good at the real thing.