Reward Day

You may remember that for Valentine's Day this year we gave Merrick a scratchers card with some different presents and fun experiences for us to do as a family. Well, this week we decided it would be a good time to take him to redeem his go-kart racing trip. Jeremy has been working REALLY hard on a mid-term paper for his International Tax class and he needed something to look forward to as much as Merrick.

Friday afternoon, after I was done with preschool and Jeremy had turned in his paper we headed to the nearby Family Fun Zone. We started with the go-kart track and it was a good thing we did. The track is outdoors and while it was not raining at the time, it started raining shortly thereafter. Merrick had a blast riding shotgun with Daddy. When he got done he came running up to me and said "I got to ride up front with Daddy!" and that night at bedtime he was still talking about it. He told me "You could not ride because you had the job to watch and take pictures, but I had the way more fun job to ride go-karts with Daddy."


After go-karts we went inside to play some arcade games. There were a few ticket games that Merrick was interested in, but by far he was the most interested in the racing games. I am fairly certain we played every racing game in the building, which let me tell you was a lot.


We wrapped up our trip to the Family Fun Zone in the playland which was like a McDonald's playland on steroids. Merrick was in heaven, but he drug Jeremy along for most of the time and by the end Jeremy's back reminded him that he is not 20 anymore. In the end we had to bribe Merrick to leave by promising him his favorite restaurant for dinner, Panda Express.

While the Panda Express was a little lack luster, the rest of the afternoon/evening was a blast. Perhaps the best part of the night was when we got home and we let Merrick eat the Fundip he bought with some of the tickets he won...he got a little messy.