CHiPs

Remember CHiPs?  Did you have a crush on free-spirited, Ponch, or the more reliable, Jon? 

Well, Ian has now upped the heart-throb ante...

Be on the look-out all you Mini-Cars, Ian is on a Japanese Mini-Bike!

Then he tried the full size version, just to get a feel...

Until the lady in the patrol car set off the security system...  And Ian had to go back to his day job.

It must have been Vocation Day, or Civil Service Job day (not sure how the Japanese Police fit into that one...).  We checked out the Japanese Police display - avoided the car since the previous lady found the "other siren"...

If you saw Cars 2, this car should look familiar.  Yes, the light bars actually do scissor up so they can be seen above the traffic!  If you have NOT seen it, DO!  It is funnier, now that you have seen the real car!

Fires were being made (gas BBQ on "Super-Testosterone High") and you could put the fire out with an extinguisher that had an impotent spray of water.  Turning the gas valve off solved the fire dilemma!

This was the best: the Rear-Ending Simulator.  You get buckled in the seat.  Imagine you are a Crash Test Dummy.  Seat rolls down incline.  BAM!  Seat stops.  Air bag deploys.

I opted out of that one.

Melissa and the kids (Jack & Maggie) popped by for a visit this afternoon.  It was great to catch up.  It has been awhile.  Since Carlyn left, in fact...

Although we forgot half of what we might have talked about.  It was even suggested we have a bullet list to make sure we touched base on everything.  Amazing how kids can 1) suck your time away and 2) suck your INTELLECT away...

Hit item of the day?  The collapsable weeding container.  The bottom was removed for the R2D2 costume and has never been reassembled.  Today, it was part of the attire again...

Decorating the steps with chalk

Ian's real day job consisted of a nap and then some pal around time in the backyard with Dougie and Maggie (he looooooooves Maggie!) and Jack.

Pop!  Goes the Weasel...

They figured out what it must be like to walk in a hoop skirt...

I can wait for these kids to grow up and get a real job.  But, if they can do half as good of a job as a Highway Patrolman as they do looking cute on the bike - I am all for it!