Scooter Pod Races

With this mild weather, we've been outside a lot, often without jackets even, playing for hours in the leaves, dirt, as acrobats, as Star Wars characters, with sticks, and especially with scooters.

In fact, the combination of Star Wars and scooters is the most popular. The kids strap on their helmets, grab their scooters, and race back and forth on the long sidewalk pretending to be X-wing or TIE-fighter pilots, either destroying or protecting the evil Galactic Empire. (We call it podracing, though they're not really pretending they're on Tatooine or in podracers.) They make pit stops for gas, communicate with each other as "Red Five" and such, and either rescue or attack me, Princess Leia. It's all very exciting.

Especially as they go zooming around the corner at the end of the next street at lightspeed.