Rissy's birthday was great! She had a chocolate ice-cream cake, which was a first for her, and she got the game she's been begging for - Sims City 4. Be sure the check out the photos from Worlds of Fun, where we rode:

•  Flying Dutchman - once
• Viking Voyager - once
• Fury of the Nile - once
• Train - once
• Asylum Island - once
• Sea Dragon - once
• Spinning Dragons - once
• Zulu - once
• Cyclone Sams - twice
• Thunderhawk - twice
• Bamboozler - twice
• Patriot - twice
• Boomerang - three times
• Mamba - three times
• Timber Wolf - four times

 UPDATE - I realized there were a couple of things I tried to make mental notes to include when I blogged about our trip, and of course I forgot. Rissy and I are HUGE Weird Al fans, so we brought the DVD of all his music videos to play on our portable DVD player in the car. I couldn't watch, but Rissy cranked it up and we both sang along, with much enthusiasm. I'm sure some people likely saw us and got a chuckle.

Another of our road-trip tradition DVDs is Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I've not actually seen this one more than a few times, but I've heard it plenty. Rissy knows all the lines and recites, RHPS-style, right along with much of the movie, it is so cute. I hope I get a couple more years of my "little" girl before she turns into a big girl that won't do these wonderful things with her dad.

On the trip back home, we stopped at an Arby's drive through before leaving Kansas City - Arby's is by far her favorite. She promptly passed out soon after, and I knew she was really out of it when I noticed the condensation from her drink dripping down from the window cup holder of our non-air-conditioned car onto her bare leg - and she didn't so much as twitch a muscle.