October, 2002

This October is full of fun and excitement. On a Friday night all of us kids went to spend the night at our aunt Dixie's house. We ate a big dinner with Grandma and Grampa and Dixie and Terry. We started to watch the Gladiator but we had to leave because it was 11 O'clock. We went back to our Aunt's house and went to bed. The next morning we all drove to Columbus to visit Chris and Natalie. It was about a two hour drive so we took our Gameboys and played them the whole way there. We got there and stayed and visited a while then Terry and Natalie went to watch an Ohio State football game. Chris showed us a huge radio that he can use to talk to people all over the world. He can do a lot of cool things with it. There is a big antenna on the roof that he uses for his radio.

After a while Dixie took us to a place called Magic Mountain. They have go karts, bumper boats, mini golf, lazer tag, huge jungle gym, and a lot of arcade games. First we played some arcade games then we went to race go karts. Mark got first, I got second, and Jenny was somewhere in the middle. After go karts Mark and I went and played a Jurassic Park game where you shoot the dinosaurs coming at you. We played it twice and the second time I put in tokens to continue and it ate them up. I was mad and lazer tag was about to start. So I kicked the machine and the door to all of the tokens flew open. I was lucky that you sit inside of a box thing and there are curtains on the side so no one saw me do it. There was about a thousand tokens in the bucket and I was shocked. Mark and I both got a refund and we told the manager and he went and locked it up again. Then we ran down to lazer tag before we missed it. Us three were all on the green team and we had to attack the red team. Our team won both two rounds and it was a lot of fun.

For supper that night we all went and ate out at a Chinese buffet. The food was delicious but Mark left his watch in the bathroom and never got it back.

The whole time we were with Dixie, Mom and Dad were at a hotel at the Columbus Airport.

Our church had a Halloween party and went to Brumbaughs farm after church one Sunday. We went through the corn maze which was fun because I was the first one to make it out. There was an area full of hay and we were wrestling in the hay. There was a haunted building an I was hiding in it and scaring people while they walked through it. We had a good time.

Nick