Low-key birthday
As I said, Robert turned 12 today. We didn't have a proper party for him -- Bonnie and I both had to work until late afternoon, but fortunately today was relatively slow work-wise, so I was able to take off shortly after 4 PM. At Robert's request we brought him to a movie -- by consensus, the family decided on The Simpsons Movie, which opened today. It was funny.
I won't spoil anything, but I will tell you this -- if you've watched all of the trailers that have been released since this movie's advertising campaign first begun, and I think there have been five or more, you've seen some of the highlights. Sure, there's a ton of other stuff that will make you laugh, but I'll just say that I dislike it when all the best gags are shown in the trailers.
After the movie ended I surprised the kids by walking them across the parking lot to a new arcade that opened earlier this year. It's great -- a bit on the expensive side but clean and well laid out, in the basement of the shops that frame one side of the small outdoor mall the theater is part of. It was a great surprise for Robert, especially, and we all had a good time -- I even hit the jackpot on one of the ticket games they had, so I ended up buying everyone trinkets.