weekend, in a nutshell!

what a lovely weekend we had! okay, well, more like what a lovely sunday we had :-) our church topic was stonewall: standing on the side of love. the entire congregation celebrated the fact that love is love... just beautiful!

after church, we came home, had some lunch, c napped and then we headed to waldameer. actually, before waldameer, we went to get a new memory card for our point-and-shoot. it seems as though it's not a good idea to leave a camera in one's car for months on end in extreme weather... the camera wasn't reading the memory card, and we had hoped that a new card would be all that it needed. fail. we are now researching new point-and-shoots.

anywho, onto waldameer... chicken nippy-napped in the car, so we kind of had to wake him up once we got to the park. c lotioned him up, and off we went to purchase our wally card and peruse the rides and games that would be chicken-friendly. first up was the gondola, but we weren't sure if chicken would be permitted on, so off to the obvious next choice: the wacky shack! as chicken and i waited in line, c asked if he was crying. i noticed that he was tearing up alot- allergies? sunscreen? probably a mix of the two... and the poor little guy had a case of the red eyes and tears the entire time. he was quite a trooper in the wacky shack. he kind of just put his little head on my lap and chilled out the whole time.

after the wacky shack, mama c took him on the big rig. he was still kind of sleepy, so we thought that maybe playing a game would wake him up. he loved the fishing game! and after a good ten minutes, a fish was finally caught! his prize? a fish, of course!

we then walked around a bit, then played the whack-a-mole game. mama c took no mercy on the poor inexperienced chicken. final score: mama c- 100, chicken- 60. but she did let him pick out her prize- a brown dog-dog!

finally, we wandered over to the train. this was when chicken finally came alive- laughing and dancing. we rode the train and then came home for dinner.