78% Fish Pee

Secret Agent Man earned some shaved ice today.  We discovered a cool place a few weeks back that makes shaved ice (snow cone/ slushie) with about 30-40 delicious flavors.  It's outside with a patio and misters.

We made a deal with Secret Agent Man that if he completes 120 minutes of drum practice a week then he gets shaved ice.  He worked hard this week to get in every minute!  At a make up practice this morning his drum teacher said he reads music while playing so well that he will be a studio musician!  Not sure what that means.  Hahaha!  Anyway, he had a lot more fun playing this week with the shaved ice motivation.

He picked Shark Attack.  Shark attack is fruit punch (Hawaiian Blue) with Tiger's Blood!  He loved that!


After our Shaved Ice we headed out to the river for some fishing.  We saw some carp and blue gill last time we were at the river so we were going prepared with the proper bait this time.

As soon as we waded into the warm river water Secret Agent Man exclaimed "Ugh!  This water's warm.  This river is 78% Fish Pee.".  

Secret Agent Man and Special Agent Dad started catching little blue gill and sunfish right away.  I caught a few and then later on Special Agent Dad caught a couple of big carp.  They were extra slimy.

By the end of the night Secret Agent Man was so hungry he started eating the bread we brought for the carp.  Special Agent Dad said "Don't eat all the bread!  You're a land carp!".  That had Secret Agent Man laughing hysterically for about 20 minutes.

Cars, Pools and Secret Agent Tools

We had the leased car inspected this morning.  The lady who came to do the inspection LOVED agent 00Dog; she gave her a lot of scratches and rubs.

Just what this hound wanted for her 6th birthday.

6 year old Staffy - Happy!

The inspector found a few scratches from the garage door scraping the back bumper (oops), a few dents in the trunk AND a HUGE dent in the roof.

I think I know where it came from.

The Peacock Did it!  You never know with these undercover  espionage experts!

A few months back, secret agent man went through a training regiment that included scaling the cars in the garage every time he got access to them.



Either that or Special Agent Dad using the car instead of a ladder to program the garage door opener.


We will never know.

We later headed to the YMCA.  I had a quick workout while Secret Agent Man went to the kids gym.

He has his own tab that allows him to purchase snacks.  Yes! Might as well just give him a credit card.

I watched a bit of the movie Red Tails while warming up in the cardio theater (A full movie screen with surround sound and a line of cardio bikes, treadmills and stair climbers) 


Here's the trailer:

After our workouts, we had lunch in the dining area, hit the pool, practiced back floats in the salt water, spent a lot of time in the whirlpool that has a constant circular current and then got out because there were 10,000 kids in lifejackets bashing into me (the only adult in the water).  

We also worked on a special project for Superheros for Sam.  This is for a little guy at Children's Hospital in Wisconsin, he is being treated for Leukemia.  We sent him a special photo for his campaign: Photo Project for Sam 

 We didn't really have any superhero themed shirts or costumes so Secret Agent Man and I thought these Lego Hero's with a nice note would be a lovely substitute!  

We had a nice walk after dinner for 00Dog and the chapter Fever and Ague from Little House on the Prairie before bed.  That led to a lecture about vaccinations.  I'm sure Secret Agent Man was fascinated.  

I actually reminded him how he spent his charity monies to buy a ten year old girl Aminata, a malaria net through See Your Impact .  This charity is great because it actually shows the donor who their money went to.  It took him ten months to earn enough ($10) to make this purchase.

Aminata with her net.  Isn't she lovely!

Tomorrow is a big day!  Secret Agent Man is headed to the office with Special Agent Dad.  He's been working on his Secret Agent exercises in preparation.