Monday, December 18, 2006

The Wii

Yup that's right. Kyle has a Wii. (Yes please make jokes about the name... that is SOOOO not over done :-) ) Sunday morning I went and stood in line at EB Games on the south side of South Bend from 7am to 10am in hopes of purchasing one. When i got there there were two other ladies in front of me; one had been there since 3am and the other since 5am. They were really nice ladies and we talked a lot during our
long wait. Over time more people came and joined our line and by about 8:30 there were approximately 15 people in the line. Jeanette showed up around that time with some Hot Apple Cider for me (which was oooh so appreciated!) and she brought homemade cookies for everyone in the line! Most of the people in line took a cookie and even after Jeanette left they commented over and over about how great the cookies were and how much they appreciated her doing that. It was cool to hear people say things like that. I get to stand there beaming and thinking "Yup, that's my wife."
At about 9am the EB employee (We'll call him "Chris") showed up and let us know that they had 6 Wii's and handed out pieces of paper with our number in line to the first 6 of us (I was third!) and told us that they'd be opening a few minutes before 10am for those of us that had been waiting; so with the extra time, I went home and took a nice hot shower before heading back to make the purchase. I actually ended up getting the first one out of the box, and paid for it with the $180 of store credit that I had accrued from selling my xbox, gamecube and a bunch of games and controllers, and some money that I had been saving so I could buy one.
After about 20 minutes of unpacking and half an hour of updates (yeah that's right, I hooked it up to my wireless router and downloaded updates for my wii) I finally got a chance to play it.

Awesome. It comes with Wii Sports, which has Tennis, Baseball, Bowling, Boxing, and Golf. I played Bowling first, and found that Jeanette is a better bowler than I am (she got a strike right off the bat, where for me for some reason, my ball always went left right before hitting the pins!). It turns out though, that I am REALLY good at Boxing! The other games are each difficult in their own ways, but they're all a lot of fun. I finished playing after about an hour and a half and my arms were SORE. This is totally the most enjoyable workout I've ever done. I'm hoping to pick up a second controller today so that we can start playing some two player, because man... this thing is FUN!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey Kyle, its been quite some time. I'm actually getting a hold of you because you're the leader of the bethel blogring on xanga (I know its been forever for you and xanga). There is a profile that joined the Bethel Blogring only to promote porn, and I was just wondering if you could do us all a favor and kick the user out. User name is angelieklathangue.

Much thanks!

and congrats on getting married! if I hadn't mentioned it before.

bacon

Anonymous said...

Hey, Kyle, was looking through my old xanga stuff (I still update and check occassionally) and thought about searching you out. Congrats on getting hitched. Marriage is grand. I'm not sure if this is too late, and it's probably something you've already figured out, but I'm starting to give newly engaged people this word of advice: "Queen sized bed, King sized comforter." Wow, that's a marriage saver more than anything. Anyway, I will talk to you later, again congrats.

Joel said...

Dude, it's Joel Nafziger from Bethel. You and I totally have to get our WIIs connected. That would be sweet! Then we can share pictures of our families and stuff.
Drop me an email sometime.
joel.nafziger@gmail.com

Rock on!