Family Visit With Sea Monkeys! (Blog 384)

Today, me and my dad visited my brother’s family! The first thing I saw in the home was my niece’s pet sea monkeys. You’d think I’d be be disappointing by the fact they weren’t real monkeys, but apparently you buy the shrimps in an undead zombie state where they’re not truly living, then you take them out of the dry packet, put them in water and they come alive which I think is cooler. Either that or I’ve seriously misunderstood things. If so, I really am wondering how I could get things so wrong. :S I mean THAT’S random. The ones I saw were only about two millimetres long, but apparently they live for many years which is also cool. I wonder what happens to them when they’re dead. Maybe they can’t die, maybe when they stop doing anything they just get repackaged and sold again. Again, cooler than monkeys!

Soon after that, I went into the garden with my dad and brother. I was looking at the swing for no real reason, then about five minutes later I suddenly saw another swing next to it. It was genuinely creepy. As I typing this up, I’m still not sure if a new swing was added or there were two swings all that time. Maybe I don’t want to know. What I do know is my dad and brother did do some work with the swings/climbing frames etc., so it is my strong suspicion a new swing was indeed added very quickly and sneakily when my back was turned. I have to be honest, I saw the two using a variety of tools on the play area for quite some time, and I have no idea what they did for the most part. At first my brother rocked the structure back and forth implying there was something wrong with it, later on he did the same thing implying it was fine. I noticed no difference.

After that, my brother showed me and my dad his remote controlled cars. He said they could do 30 mph, and my dad pointed out for the scale they must do the equivalent of around 300 mph! Imagine a 300 mph car blitzing around your garden. (Cooler than monkeys!) My mini nephew particularly enjoyed it when the car spun around very very quickly. If a real car did so at the same speed, the G force would probably kill you. Maybe deep down the toddler knew that, and that’s what he found so ridiculous and amusing. If so, a very clever baby. My niece is also clever for counting up to thirty with no issues. There’s no such number as thirty ten obviously, but a damn good effort so she gets a solid B plus from me. But my nephew’s profound understanding of physics? THAT gets an A star.

Annoyingly as I was lost in my thoughts and wondering what to blog about in my brother’s house, someone asked me my opinion on something at the ‘perfect’ moment. Yep, I didn’t know how to answer as I wasn’t following my family’s conversation. I knew they were talking about some kind of water based product that can do some incredible things and is so powerful it can harm you if used incorrectly, but it was too much of a risk to say something like ‘yeah, cool.’ I could have been saying that to some kind of death trap that’s been wreaking havoc, for all I knew. So in the end, I just said ‘I don’t know.’ After that, my brother and dad did some more apparent work on the playing area, but again part of me is sceptical they did anything. That brings me back to my school days where I pretended to work so I didn’t get into trouble. But of course, you only get found out later, so if they were pretending, please look to the future. :) After that stuff, me and my dad went home. And that’s a bye from me, too!