Toys, Dollarama style

So, it has been and still is, an interesting experience for the girls' and i on how to spend our days. With no garden, I have 4 potplants (geraniums, guys, ok) which are suffering from an excess of attention; the kitchen has room for one of us (and the girls' fit in better than I do) so doing some baking together is out; anymore time in the pool and we would develop fins; 3 board games a day is anyone's limit and our tolerance for being outside walking around is about 40 minutes. So, what to do? Ta, da! Dollarama store to the rescue. Don't you love these stores - it's airconditioned, has 2 aisles of sweets which is about 30 minutes worth of entertainment for the girls' and I get to marvel at what you can purchase for a dollar (here they are called loonies and the two dollars are called toonies - I kid you not. To kill a good story there, it is named after a Loon bird. sorry, Chris, Drew and Karen about this part - it really is funny to us - remember, little things amuse me). I was wandering around the toy section when I hit upon some kites - that's it, that'll be fun and different. so, the girls unenthusiastically chose their kites and we wandered home.Up the seven flights of stairs (ok, so we took the elevator), unwrapped them,(sighing a breath of relief that all parts seemed to be there and look ok) persuaded the girls' that kite flying was really fun (praying the wind wouldn't die down, the kites would fly and the world would be a happy place), got outside and we launched them. It was great - there was Spongebob and Winnie the Pooh flying happily in the sky. Right, time for my own kite to launch - a multicoloured thing as they didn't have any ABBA ones - what a sight! all three kites soaring in the wind, kids running around, smiles of delight everywhere. We decided to take them as high as we could - ahh, the joy of wind tugging at the kites as we unravelled our strings - higher and higher my bold little kite flew until it was at it's peak. I watched open mouthed as my kite flew higher and higher and higher again. The string wasn't attached to the bloody handle. Girls' on the ground with hysterical laughter, me running across the field trying to catch the string, kite dancing it's way to the US. Best dollar I have ever spent.