A Weekend in the Life of Mike

One of the nicest things I can do for my wife is to write on our blog. So since we had a fun weekend, I thought I would write a few words about it and surprise Amy. I'm imagining when she finds out she'll probably get a little teary eyed with excitement, then she'll probably want to hug and kiss me a lot.
It started with a Friday night excursion to our favorite pumpkin festival in Circleville. Circleville is only 30 minutes away according to locals, but it took us an hour to get there in the "everybody in Columbus is trying to get to the same little small town" traffic. We ended up going with some of our friends from our Ward, which was fun. The festival was a really good time besides the elbow to elbow people traffic that we had to shimmy our way through to get from place to place. There wasn't as much pumpkin stuff as I was expecting, but I was still able to try some pumpkin cake, pumpkin scone, pumpkin donuts, and even a pumpkin burger (which surprisingly didn't taste very good). They also had an enormous thousand pound pumpkin and the largest pumpkin pie probably in the world, but maybe just Circleville. Either way, it was larger than Amy's nephew's could probably eat, but maybe not.

Saturday morning was an amazing adventure in taking my little brother Mike to the zoo. Since my real little brother is serving a mission in Seattle I decided to get a new little brother by becoming a mentor with the Big Brother's Big Sister's program. So far it has been a lot of fun. I made the mistake yesterday, however, to let little Mike get a Volt soda pop. I'm not sure why I thought letting an already attention deficit seven year old drink a highly caffeinated and sweetened drink would be a good idea. He was all over the place, but the zoo was a good place for that. There is so much to look at that he could just bounce from one animal to the next. He wanted to look at every little thing as well, so even though he didn't want to look at anything for too long, we still didn't make it around even half the zoo. It was funny because he decided that he was going to be my zoo guide. Whenever we would go to see a new animal he would tell me what it was and other random information. For example "oh Michael! look here is a flat green snake, it is poisonous and can eat a whole kid, I mean man whole, it lives in Texas." He told me when we left that I should quit school and work at the zoo so that we could go all the time.
Saturday night we played some games with some of our other friends here in Columbus. We ate some Delicious soup compliments of Chef Amy, and played a couple of games. Of course I dominated! Today has been a really good Sunday. We are helping our primary kids practice for the primary program next week. Our primary presidency is pulling out all the stops, singing in different languages, chimes, sign language. It should be pretty fun. Well, this post is over. Now I just have to wait for the tearful hugs and kisses.