Teacher's Night at McDonals's

One thing that drives me nuts about elementary school is the constant fundraising. And they do such a good job getting the kids on board. All week Alice has been talking about teacher's night at McDonalds (we buy food and McDonalds donates proceeds to the school) and how much she wanted to go. I hemmed and hawed and refused to commit to anything. "But I want to see Dr. Douglass go down the slide!" she would keep saying. Dr. Douglass is the principal and apparently he promoted the event by promising the students they'd see him go down the slide at the play place in the McDonald's.

Finally, on the way home that evening, I relented and told Alice and Simon if they ate their supper really fast we could go to McDonald's for dessert.  It was fish night, so they unfortunately succeeded in eating quickly enough that we had time to go. So we all piled into the car and drove up the road to McD's.

It was even worse than I imagined. The play area was a madhouse, of course, but what I had failed to imagine was that they would all be screaming. Zac used some app on his phone and the sound levels were declared unsafe without ear protection.

The good news was Alice had a blast. She found a few friends and played like a maniac. She seemed to forget all about seeing Dr. Douglass go down the slide.

We let the kids play for a bit, then got them ice cream cones, then let them play for a bit more, then left. If I'm deaf in old age (more than I am already) this will be the cause.