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Post Staycation Mail Call

Siblings
Photo-A-Day #4029

Our trip to the Cape came to an end today. However, not before we got a chance to visit our friends. We went down further onto the Cape and met up with our friends Denise, Aaron and their kids. The kids were part of a theater group that performed some Shakespeare pieces like mini scenes and tableaus. It was fun to see the kids perform, they did an excellent job.

After the show our friends took us to a great lunch at Lost Dog. They had special tater tots there. I’ve never been much of a fan of Tater tots because they are always done in the oven. But the best way to enjoy them is certainly fried and then I put Sriracha sauce on them. Fantastic! The meal was great and the conversation lively. the kids got along great and came up with all sorts of fun ideas for a special cupcake place. I was also very impressed with how Andrew was at the restaurant. He was very polite with the waitress, all our work with him is paying off. We’re trying to instill in him the importance of looking people in the face when he speaks and saying please and thank you when ordering. This is something that we have always stressed with the kids. He’s starting to get it.

After lunch we drove home because I had to work tonight. We got home with about an hour to spare before work. I took in the stuff from the car and then opened all the boxes that I was sent. I’m going to have to make a cardboard recycling run soon because there were so many boxes. I unbox a bunch in the video below and get a couple of surprises.

And later on I checked, I bought two Ronan Pop figures. Don’t Amazon order on little sleep. Doesn’t work out.

Skylanders Themed Cake Masters Watch Party

My Skylanders Cake
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We received a special Skylanders Party package from Activision for free which also included a box of Duff Goldman’s Blue Suede cake mix. Opinions of this cake mix and the Skylanders brand is 100% my own. This blue cake mix with a blueberry flavor to it has a slight fruity flavor to it but it is certainly not overpowering. I really enjoyed it.

So with the cake mix there were a ton of things to use to throw a Skylanders themed party. There were decorations, balloons, temporary tattoos, glow sticks, bracelets and so much more. There was even a wall decoration that we could use to take photos with and masks, too. We even ate on Skylanders plates and napkins and drank from Skylanders cups.

We had our friends come over to share pizza and cake with us. I baked the cake this afternoon and Allison came home to decorate it. I gave her a Skylanders portal and some figures. I picked up some of Duff’s frosting and also some blue sprinkles. I had to use the Power Blue Trigger Happy as my character because it went well with the cake color and the sprinkles.

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