With the Sysmidgets involved, "Breakfast in bed" quickly de-volved to "Breakfast on bed." Eggs Benedict. Good stuff.

"Hey Dad, can we wash your car?" turned into a neighborhood car wash. The kids made $7.

The Sysmistress gave me a copy of "Weird Illinois". Flipper was reading it as we were driving to Resurrection Cemetery. I told him about "Resurrection Mary." He read up on it, and after visiting the Sysmistress' dad's grave, we spent a half hour searching for graves of teenage girls named Mary. No luck. But there are tens of thousands of graves there. He later told me about a "Devil's Chair", saying if you sit on one, you either get seven years of unbelievable good fortune, followed by sudden death, or just the sudden death part

Bought a coconut, so the guys could try fresh coconut milk. They didn't like it. But they did enjoy making a coconut bra out of the shell. The Sysmistress tried it on (over her clothes), and the Spaniard yelled,

"We're going to put pictures of you on the internet."

During dinner,

Me: I had a very nice Father's Day. Thank you everybody.
The Boys: You're welcome.
(Then to each other): Jinx!
Chili: The Jinx machine is out of order, now you owe me a quarter!
Me: Guys, you can't call Jinx when it's an obvious word. You have to do it when it's something that you say that's weird or coincidental.
The Spaniard and NickName look at each other, smile, and shout: Onomatopoeia! Jinx!
I was so proud of them, I couldn't speak.

Now we're off to practice bike riding for the SysmTwins.

What a lovely day.

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