We had a dessert craving, so dropped by Cups for some Mango bingsu. While we were eating, kid requested we ask him what 12x5 was. After obliging his request, he promptly told us the answer was 60. He further explained that he know that was the answer because a clock has 12, and that's equivalent to 60 minutes. We were quite impressed!
He then requested we test him on multiplication by 5. Wife asked him 5x5, and again, he answered promptly with 25. I asked him 9x5, and again, 45! At this point, I thought this was too good to be true. He's pretty advanced in math, but not to the extent that he knew multiplication of 5 by heart yet.
Curious, I then turned around and saw that there was a giant clock which showed both clock face numbers, as well as the corresponding minutes!! What a cheat!! :D
After dinner, we noticed that there was an ultra rare Unown for the kid's favourite letter L. The location was a bit of a hike into a park, but we decided to brave the cold and grab this guy. There was a group huddled around GZ with flashlights by the time we got there. After some pictures, kid went on wife's phone to try to catch this Unown. After one throw, the Unown fled!!! WTF.
This was the first time an Unown ran away from us. The next day, kid said he was the worst Pokemon trainer ever... Niantic grrrrrr!!! This was worse than the previous episode.
We recently picked up a Nintendo Switch along with The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild. We were barely into the game, just making it after the part where the Old Man shows us how to use the scope at the top of the Great Plateau Tower. We had clicked through the dialogue a bit too fast, and had missed how to activate the scope. So I started randomly pressing buttons and accidentally threw our one and only Boko Club off the tower. My eyes widened with horror, as you are pretty useless without a weapon in this game. I let out an OH CRAP!!! The kid followed up with a big DAAAADDDDDY!!!! I was like... SORRY!!!! Kid countered with a "YOU'RE STUPID!!!". I was half taken aback, half bemused. WHAT DID YOU SAY?!? Hahaha.
We reloaded from our last save point to get the club back. :)
We visited Willowtree Farm today and picked up miscellaneous goodies you'd expect from a fall harvest: pumpkins, corn, beans, etc. During dinner, the following conversation happened:
G: Why did we buy honey? We have two big pails already?
D: What? We got honey?
me: Huh, I thought one of you put it in the basket, and so I just paid for it during checkout.
kid: It wasn't me, I put on the shelf, not in the basket!!
me: Duuudddee, next time, put it in someone else's basket, not ours!!! Is your throat hurting? I'm making you honey lemon water tomorrow. :)
After some laughter, and I went to find the honey bottle... 375g for $7!!! It is GOLD honey after all.
On our drive in, we asked the kid what state Nashville is in... he obviously didn't know, so we sounded it out with him. Ten.... nes... seee. Kid goes, oh! Tennessee Racquet!! 😅
We saw a poster at a travel agency of Sagrada Familia yesterday. Since we were there last year, I wanted to see if the kid remembered. He was like yeah!! That's where there was suppose to be a Pikachu nest, but there weren't any Pikachus! I'm convinced he does. :D
Took the family to "real" skiing today... the kid has been training diligently at the local hill the past two years, cumulating in a step 3+ and tiger badge. We got go MSL late morning. The weather was perfect, and snow wasn't bad considering the rain from the past few days. We started with some early green runs as a group. The Sundance chairlift had a conveyer belt to easy the loading! First time I've seen anything like this... what a great idea. The kid didn't have any problems, so we decided to tackle one of the blue hills (Snowbowl, ironically also Kid's favourite hill at Uplands). As we took the express lift up, I showed him the two black diamond trails at the top of the lift. We even ventured up to the edge to see how steep it was... but before we put the kart before the horse, we needed to try out blue trails. I led the way with kid in tow, and to my amazement, he was managing to keep pace with me and "follow my tracks". He had to revert to pizza turns for the most part, but great control, balance and edge work!
After lunch, we went up as a group on the express lift. There was a short blue trail back over to the greens, which petrified mommy. Mommy decided to take a break, while we did a few more blue runs. We ended up going over to the Moonstone cross-over trail. Ironically, kid managed to survive all the steep parts, but then took a tumble on the flat section.... ski off and everything too! After an eternity for recovery, we made our way back over to MSL chalet.. much to a worried mom. To cheer the kid up, we decided to try the West Peak Black Diamond... kid wanted to do it.. Mommy was saying he should try it.... and me.. despite seeing his mastery of the blue slopes was quite petrified. I wasn't sure whether to lead or follow. Leading meant I would be useless if the kid fell, and Following meant the kid would be a bullet down the mountain. However, after getting the kid all hyped up, I wasn't one to disappoint, and gave him strict instructions to follow me. Bail out if you need to. We got to the edge, looked down, and went for it.
I made a few broad S turns, and every time I turned around, the kid was right there with his patented Pizza turns. He was struggling more to follow my tracks, but was still very much in control. Only one time did he yell for me to stop and wait for him to finish turning. CRAZY. At the bottom of that section, I asked him if it was hard, and got the classic: Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy. Damnit. The kid is surely going to surpass me soon.
Finished the day with a variety of runs. Mommy was doing awesome and managed to make it down the mountain a few times with much better control. Took the kid up for a final run on some Black Diamonds. He aced the top half, and fell on the second... but pulled himself back up quickly and skied the rest of the way down. I didn't even have a chance to start moving back up the hill. I'm so jealous of kids' flexibility. Finished the day at 6pm, and went to hunt some partychus afterwards. All in all, an eye opening day.