On Tuesday, we slept in and then headed down to Temple for lunch with my folks at El Chico.  My mom was full of stories from her recent Canada trip.  After lunch, we went next door to PDI, my old summer workplace.  We talked to Heath Robinson and Michael Cooper for a while.  Then, we went to Belton to my sister's house, where we arrived in time to take a nap.  We ended up not taking much of a nap as Luke and Lauren arrived home before long.  We all went to Lauren's soccer game, which was a lot of fun.  Lauren played goalie in the second half, and she really made some incredible saves.  Luke spent most of the game jumping or crawling on me.  After the game, we got burgers back at the house, and then Jamie and I went over to Heath & Courtney's house for a little while.  We had a nice chat out on the front porch until Jamie pointed to a HUGE spider that was on the pillar right next to me.  I'm pretty sure this wasn't a tarantula, but it was just as big.  I quickly removed myself from that situation.  Heath tried to kill it with his shoe, but only managed in knocking off one of its huge legs.  Its spider buddies probably will call it "Seven Legs" or "South-Easty".

The next day was for us to spend with the kids, and spend it with them we did.  We got up early (for us) and took the kids to IHOP for a brunch.  Then, we headed to the mall to see when Freaky Friday was playing.  We had a couple hours to kill, so we went over to Tilt and played a bunch of video games.  I'm not sure why Tilt is even open during the day on a school day, but at least we had the place to ourselves.  The kids both traded in their tickets and got tons of little toys and trinkets.  Next we headed over to Petco where the kids could look at the animals.  Luke spotted one of the parrots out of its cage.  Fortunately it was doubly contained by the bird room.  Lauren noticed that only 4 out of the 5 hamsters in the hamster cage were actually alive.  It was pretty gross.  Apparently, hamsters are cannibals.  Movie time.  Freaky Friday was bearable.  The new theater in Temple was quite an improvement over the old ones.  Luke didn't care too much for the sitting still that is typically associated with movie-going, but fortunately there were only two other people in the theater, and they weren't anywhere near us.  All of this, and it's now only 1:45 pm.