Friday, Greg had the day off and we had lunch with Ella at Red Robin. Last week, we had seen someone dressed up in the Red Robin costume waving to driver's by on Parkside Dr. Well, Ella insisted that the Red Robin was at the restaurant on Friday and was a little upset that he was not. The waitress informed us that he was there, but in a box. I had to tell Ella that he was napping. Well, for the rest of the day, she wanted me to drive around Knoxville to find the Red Robin! She gets easily obsessed with things like this. She really does enjoy seeing "characters". She has an initial fear when she gets up close, but after a couple of minutes, she's FINE! Well, it just so happened that my step mother called this very day to inform me that Dora was at the Lexus dealership from 4-6. Oh... I had to ponder this one. We've had so many years of Dora at this house...I'm ready to move on to something else. And Ella would even tell you that she doesn't like Dora anymore, which makes me secretly do a little happy dance! However, her love of "characters" led me to tell her about Dora and so we ended up at the Lexus dealership. She did have the initial fear so Kaeley and I had to have our picture made with her first. Then Ella and I had our picture made. THEN, we had to get back in line for Ella to have her picture made by herself. She didn't want to leave!
This was waiting to see Dora. They had some snacks and Ella couldn't even eat - she was TOO excited!
