My Kingdom for a ...

small fortune. Look, the thing is that I couldn't really say what I wanted for my birthday. I wanted to do something fun with my parents, my husband, and my kid - plus with all the money we would have spent on that high school reunion I ditched, this seemed like a fun thing to do that everyone would have an entertaining time at.

So I bought the family a night (or knight - but that's a really really bad pun only Chris would think up) at the Medieval Times in Dallas. Wilson loves the movies A Knight's Tale, Robin Hood (Disney animated version), and swordfighting is sort of like using a light-saber. One day I'll share with Wilson the semester I spent in a Medieval Studies class in college where we learned the way to make a book - pressing the rag together to make paper, making our own quill pens and ink, sewing a binding for the book but right now the only thing that interests him from the Medieval period are knights. Can't say I blame him, the bookmaking was sort of an academic sleeping pill. Also, I've scored cool points with Will because in college I was on a fencing team so "Mommy can sword fight." I'll take all the cool points I can now because I know a teenager is lurking in that preschooler waiting to go off like a time bomb and then no more cool points will be awarded (until his freshman English class and then I will be his best friend...)

It was a fun experience that you really only do once. The food was good, the cast was entertaining, watching Wilson enter the castle and seeing him experience this was really neat. I couldn't have asked for a better present. :)