Perhaps the least adventurous thing was when we finally got around to picking up the trophy and plaque for the winner of last season's Bicoy (fantasy) Football League...
The plaque is permanently displayed with great reverence and honor in the alcove outside the bathroom where our kids go potty.
We also picked up a new trophy each year for the League champion. This year's is a bit nicer than last year's, but it is also a bit more confusing...
Exactly which side of the trophy is the front? No matter which way you look at it, one guy is facing you and the other has his back to you.
Strange.
With the temperatures already touching 100 degrees outside, our kids tend to come back into the air-conditioned inside to hide from the afternoon sun. David and Kekoa spend the time perfecting their Jedi arts...
While Malia and Nalani play together.
Can you guess what it is they're doing from the photo below?
Well?
Clearly, they're in the midst of playing a board game..
A full-contact board game, apparently.
Bretty, unfortunately, has had enough of full contact for the time being.
The boys were playing football in the yard with some kids from the neighborhood when this big fat boy tackled my son then jumped on him a second time while he was laying on the ground.
Here's the result...
Maybe I'm being mean by calling the neighbor kid a big fat boy, but he broke my son Bretty and didn't even feel bad, so I'm calling him a big fat boy.
Poor Bretty has a broken collar bone. He was not a happy camper.
That was about a week ago, and the doctor says that it will heal on its own with his arm in a sling. Being a stubborn Bicoy, however, Bretty decided he is fine. The doctor told our son he could stop using the sling whenever he felt ready.
To show us how much better he was indeed feeling, Bretty decided to do a few jumping jacks. Altogehter, he did 24 jumping jacks.
That got Kekoa thinking. Exactly how many jumping jacks could he do if he tried.
So Kekoa began his version of jumping jacks...
His form may not be perfect, but he jumped up in the air and clapped his hands every time. They were as demanding physically as they would be if his form were perfect.
So we started counting to see if Kekoa could beat Bretty's 24 jumping jacks. I had no doubt he would because Kekoa is Mr. Endurance. He once ran a dozen laps for no reason other than because he felt like it.
But we were all a little surprised by just how determined this little boy really is.
Well, our Mr. Endurance did 1,002 jumping jacks.
Yes, that's one thousand jumping jacks, with two more added on just for fun.
It got tough there for him with the last 150 or so, but by then we got everyone involved in cheering him on. We even started counting backward for the last 100 because Cari and I wanted him to stop at 1,000.
I think if we would have let him, he'd have kept going until he dropped.
Kekoa is one very, very determined little boy.
Here is our very sweaty son swigging a glass of water his little sisters brought to him after his jumping jacks...
When asked why he wanted to do 1,000 jumping jacks, Kekoa explained it was easy. He said that he was born in the year 2000, which is the Chinese year of the Dragon.
Dragons, Kekoa pointed out, have lots of energy. That's why he could do 1,002 jumping jacks.
Mr. Endurance!
On another note, Cari and I had the opportunity to sneak away from the kids the other night to see the Producers, the Mel Brooks musical that won all those Tony Awards on Broadway. Someone had a few extra tickets and Cari and I were lucky to get a chance to see the show for free!
Here's a picture we took of the stage (with the curtain down) as people were arriving...
The Producers is a Mel Brooks comedy/musical about two Broadway producers who realize they can steal a fortune if the show is a disasterous flop. The original producers were played on Broadway by Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane (who reprised their role for the film). The great thing about the Las Vegas production is that it features the actors who starred for many years in the Broadway version shortly after Broderick and Lane ended their short run.
Anyway, the producers select a surefire flop which is a musical called "Springtime for Hitler" -- yes, that Hitler. As added insurance to make sure it is a disaster, they hire a gay director who likes to dress in women's clothes and is known for his outrageous over-the-top musicals. The director makes the Hitler in the musical a flamboyantly homosexual Hitler.
In the movie and on Broadway the part of the gay director is fabulously played by Gary Beach.
In Las Vegas, the gay director is played by none other than the Knight Rider himself...
Yes my friends, David Hasselhoff.
The first time you see the Hoff in the show he's dressed in a fabulous low cut sequined evening dress complete with long white gloves and a handbag my wife just adored.
How can you not love living in Las Vegas!
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