It’s Thursday!

Here are five things to think about this Thursday evening.  They are not listed in any order of importance, but if they were, numbers one and three would probably be in their correct places.  Number four would switch places with number two.  Number five isn’t really important at all, but it had to have a number assigned to it.  At any rate, pay no attention to the numbers.  Unless you have some kind of OCD.  Then, by all means, cut and paste the article into Word.  If you do that, you can rearrange everything to your liking.

1. Paris.  What can you say about something like that?  I’ve decided that I can’t really add anything new to the conversation except for my prayers.  I do love the city of Paris.  Six years ago I had the opportunity to visit.  I am not a city person.  I can stomach New York once or twice a year.  I live outside of Philadelphia, and I virtually never go there.  The place is full of Eagles fans.  😉  There truly is something about Paris, though.  It’s not called the City of Love for nothing.
2. My youngest son has decided that he simply must have a yo-yo.  This caught me off guard.  Next thing you know he’ll be asking for a hoop that he can push around the driveway with a stick.  Or maybe he’ll want an Atari.  He’s an old soul.
3. My dad and I took my two boys backpacking last weekend.  It was the first trip for my six year old, and the stretch of trail that we did was somewhere around eight and a half miles.  We hiked about six miles on the first day, set up a camp to spend the night, and walked the remaining two and a half miles the next morning.  That distance with a six year old was slightly ambitious.  I ended up carrying him on my shoulders for a total distance of around a mile.  If you’re keeping score.  That would be a pack that weighed forty five pounds and a six year old that weighed fifty.  A grand total of ninety five.  It’s as fun as it sounds.  I saw several guys who had already set up their camp late on the first day, and as I walked past carrying kid and all, I heard one of them say, “Oooohhhh!  God bless you man.”
4. I watched Jurassic World with the kids last week.  Aside from being thoroughly unimpressed, I had a few thoughts.  If dinosaurs were truly that dangerous, people would be extinct and they would still be here.  Because most of what we know about them is a guess, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that they were just brooding artist types.  They were quiet and kept to themselves, mumbling about being misunderstood, and making cave drawings.  Noah got tired of their moodiness and “forgot” to send out their Ark invite.
5. It has been twenty five years since Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy award.  They were truly ahead of their time.  Half of the artists who perform live today aren’t actually singing.

Coming Sunday:  Stranger Danger For Adults part 4.

Coming Thanksgiving:  The Top Ten Things I Am Thankful For 2015.