This morning I took Sienna to swimming lessons. This time I watched her for most of the time instead of watching something on my iPhone. When we got home we had a shower and put on the washing and dishwasher and drove to Indooroopilly shopping centre. We went to KMart and printed out a couple of photos of us and then headed to Crazy Clark’s to get some gifts for the Operation Christmas Child. We spent nearly $50 but it was worth it. Last year I forgot, but this year I got an email about it in time. We packed two boxes — one for a 5-9yo boy and one for a 5-9yo girl. I try to keep the ages around Sienna’s age so she can contribute to suggestions. We wrote a quick note on the back of our photos with our names and a brief Christmas message and packed the boxes up and headed to Yeronga to drop the boxes off.
From there we headed to the AMF bowling alley at Upper Mt Gravatt. Sienna was very excited since she was trying out her own ball for the first time and they had most of the lights turned off and flashy, rainbow lights zooming up and down the lanes. It was very exciting. The first game she got about 84 points and I got 95. The second game she got several Spares and I got a Strike and a couple of Spares. The end score — Daddy: 118 Sienna: 119. She beat me! She was so impressed! We stayed and cashed in a $10 note for tokens and played on the games there. Sienna won one chocolate after about 25 goes on the weak claw game and we also played a basketball game, skeeball, crocodiles and Deal or No Deal. We ended up with a handful of tickets and took them to get counted. The new girl there (Cute but rather young) tried to use the ticket counting machine and turned it on, fed the tickets in and turned it off, then looked around the back at the LCD screen to see the count. However, there was nothing on the screen since she had turned the power off. Her boss (father perhaps?) told her to just make it an even 50. I don’t know what the actual number was. Probably something similar. Sienna had the choice of a bracelet or a racing car. Being a girl, of course she chose the red racing car.
We drove to Westfield Garden City and had Hungry Jacks for lunch. We went to Gametraders and bought 2,000 Nintendo Points for the Wii. I picked up a few pairs of shorts for Sienna as she doesn’t have any at my place and I keep forgetting to get some from her mum’s when we visit. We came home after that and I traded in 1,000 points to download Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People. I had hoped Sam and Max would be out in Australia on WiiWare by now, but it doesn’t seem to be as the only TellTale Games games available are Episode 1 and 2 of SBCGFAP. We played that for a while this afternoon and Sienna loved the crazy voices.
It was now time to make dinner so I put on some food in the oven and we watched an episode of Dr Who. Once it finished Sienna wanted to watch another so she put it on and fell asleep after about 10 minutes, lying on my lap. When the show finished I carried her to her room and put her in bed.
The first thing we did today was go to the Post Office. There was a package there for me in a big box which I wasn’t expecting to find today. Several months ago I entered a competition on a Podcast "The Wii Show" to win some Nintendo Wii gear, well I won and my prize arrived today. It’s a Nyko Charge Station. Fortunately, I already had a Universal Adaptor for it. I plugged it into the wall and put one of my WiiMotes into it. It works perfectly. Now I have two charge stations and will have to get another couple of WiiMotes at some stage so when I take the Wii to my cousin Jo’s place there’s enough WiiMotes to go around everyone.
Below is a photo of the Nyko Charge Station I won..
Easily charge and store your Wii Remotes™ with Nyko’s Charge Station for Wii™. The Charge Station includes 2 NiMH batteries, exclusively designed for the Wii Remote, each providing up to 25 hours of play time. Each battery is easily recharged by placing the Wii Remote in the charging dock. The charging dock conveniently plugs into any standard wall outlet, allowing for rapid recharging of both batteries in 8 hours. The Charge Station includes 2 custom battery covers with contact pass-through points so you can charge the batteries while they are still in the remote. Each battery cover is also rubberized for superior grip during intense gaming sessions. The Charge Station matches the décor and styling of the Wii, and is small enough to fit in any home entertainment center.
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Charge 2 Wii remotes simultaneously
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Includes 2 rechargeable NiMH battery packs
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LED Charge Indicator lights
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Dual port rapid recharging dock
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6 foot power cable
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Rubberized battery covers for superior gaming performance
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I’ve only played a few Wii games but this one I will highly recommend.
