2007
wii are the champions
maura @ 10:52 pm
Hey there, internets. Sorry for the radio silence, but things have been busy here in mauraweb!land, what with our weeklong midwest vacation at Camp Grandma + Grandpa, the start of my last and final library school class, throwing a little freelancing into my own personal schedule mix, and Gus going to day camp for the first time. I did get started chipping away at that iceberg of owed email, and even hung out with a few of my friends from high school that we haven’t seen in 5+ years.
And in the meantime, there’s the Wii! If you are a close reader of mauraweb! you may have suspected that yes, we finally got our grubby mitts on a Wii. It was truly a fluke. We’d looked online and even tried in the midwest, to no avail. Then last week Gus and I were at the “mall” (my neighbor calls it The Big Ugly, which is so true) shopping for some last minute camp supplies. And I thought, why not stop into the game store, just to see?
While we’re waiting at the counter for the shop assistant to check in the back, I’m giving Gus this whole speech about how the workers at the Nintendo factory are working really hard, but so many people want the Wii that they haven’t been able to keep up, so we probably won’t get one today, but don’t worry because we will at some point, blah blah blah. And the guy comes back hoisting a box in the air, saying “this is the only one!” And you could have knocked me over with a feather, seriously.
Of course I had to schlepp the (heavy) box around throughout the rest of the shopping excursion because we’d stopped at the game store first. And Jonathan nearly passed out when we walked in with it, too.
So far Gus is not nearly as into it as the rest of the household. He has recently been heavily into Pikmin on the GameCube, and even was briefly pissed off before he realized that the Wii is backwards compatible. J+I, on the other hand, are an awesome doubles force to be reckoned with in Tennis, though Gus is the champion of Boxing. Baseball cracks me up because the little dudes have no arms, just a body w/legs + head with a bat floating off to the side of it. I need to make me a Mii, too, to replace the generic one w/a green shirt that J made.
Really, I have too much work to do right now to deep-end on the Wii. But come August 4th (my last class) IT’S ON.
