Wii Tip, Take 2

This tip will deal with the good side, not the sick joke side, of playing with a Wii.

The Wii is an awesome video game system.  If you think PS trilogy or the xBox 360 trilogy are good, you are nuts.  Although, I will agree that the PS3 is really great.

Wii games are so awesome.

You should try to get a Wii from your parents.  My parents won't let me have one.  My grandparents and my cousin have one, though.  That's part of what makes visiting them so fun.

One More Time!

At your grandma's house, there are a lot of things you can do, like playing Wii and stuff.  But, there's one thing I absolutely love to do:  videotaping!!

Here's an example.



Obviously, I like to dance.

Pretending to be Phil

Today is Groundhog Day.  You probably know what that means.  But, do you know the real fun of Groundhog Day?  Well, for one, you can kind of act like a groundhog.  Two, you can ask your teacher to allow you to read all day, because you're pretending to be a groundhog and hibernating and reading.

Here's the bad part, though:  If you try to ask the president to be allowed to stay in bed all day and play video games or read or play with your action figures so that you can act like a groundhog on Groundhog Day, he'll probably say no.  I think it would be cool, but they haven't allowed it to happen.

Happy Groundhog Day!

Oh, by the way, I'm sorry for you people who are sad about six more weeks of winter.  I kind of like winter, so I don't mind that the groundhog saw his shadow.



P.S. My grandma was the first to get yesterday's first three Hink Pinks correct, but she missed the fourth one. My dad's facebook friend Ryan got all four correct, so he was the first to get the fourth one. The answers were: (1) Boy toy; (2) Mouse House; (3) Car bar; (4) Cheap Peep. Way to go Grandma and Ryan!

Four Alien Thumbs Up

There is this really cool movie called "Aliens in the Attic."  It's about these kids fighting small aliens who are trying to take over the world.  The aliens have these chips that they can shoot into adults' necks and then control them like video games.  The kids are trying to protect their parents so they don't get shot.  While doing that, they have to do a few little cool techniques, like throwing firecrackers into the vents of the rental house to explode the aliens in them.

This movie is rated PG and I hope you like it.  It is appropriate for people who are 7 years old and up.  My parents don't let me watch PG-13 movies (can you believe that rip?!?), so this is about as good as it gets for me.

Gettin' Funky

If your kids want to play games, here's a recommendation for them.  This is another game that requires a computer.  I really recommend U.B. Funkeys.  It's a great game.  You get to play a lot of games and visit different islands and locations in Terrapinia.  And you can try solve the mystery of Master Lox and the Great Disaster.  Unfortunately, you can't play it on a Mac, only a PC, unless your Mac has been partitioned so that it has both the Mac OSX and Windows on it.  (At least that's what my dad says.)

"Boy"bysitters

If you get a boy babysitter, even if you're a girl, you should cherish it.  Most boy babysitters are nicer than girl babysitters.  They usually let you do whatever you want.  It's not that they don't make you follow rules.  It's just that they don't have many rules and they like to play with you.  No offense to girls, of course.


Reminder:  If you went to Turkuaz, like I recommended last week, leave a comment on that post.  

A Net Positive

There's a really cool Website called Poptropica.  It's at www.poptropica.com .  You may think it's boring at first, adults.  But really there's a lot of puzzles and logic games.  So, really, you'll love it.  My dad even has to help me sometimes win the games.

For kids:  it's almost like playing a video game; but, your parents probably won't limit your time on it like they would a real video game, because it's kind of educational.  You can also laugh at the crazy costumes and wacky names.

If you need any help getting through the islands, just leave me a comment and I'll give you a hint or a cheat.

Of Immature Uncles

If you have uncles who are mean, don't play Wii with them.  If you do, they'll make comments like, "You really like to play with your Wii, don't you?"  And they don't mean the video game system, if you know what I mean.

(By the way, happy 40th birthday Uncle Robby.)