Okay, I apologize for not updating on Friday what happened on Friday, but you know what they say about what happens on Friday. . . maybe not.  We had to go to court on Friday because we have been working on getting guardianship of Sam.  Success.   We went in for our scheduled time, 2:00 pm, and had to wait nearly two hours until we got called up.  We showed up early and listened to the cases that were being held at the time.  There were a lot of no shows, surprisingly.  The Judge, Brady, was hearing a lot of cases involving banks and other businesses.  I guess they had worked out their differences because most of them had no representation present on either side.

So there we sat, waiting and listening.  As I said we showed up early so we heard the business cases for about 15-20 minutes before they called for a short five minute recess.  After the recess is when the judge started hearing the family cases, for conservatorship or guardianship.  It was surprising to me, but it really shouldn’t be, that there were a lot of Mexicans there that didn’t speak English.  Their children had each been in an accident, and they were settling with the insurance company of the other party for x amount of money and the parents had to be declared Conservators of their childrens funds.  They weren’t distant relatives, just the blood mother or parents of the child.

When our turn finally came up, there had been about three or four cases just before us that were also working for guardianship.   One of the families was like us, except the brother-in-law and sister were taking a minor girl out of her fathers home because the father was not providing a safe environment.  That way we got a little look at what would happen to us.  Two hours of sitting, you would think when you finally got up there it would be some big deal.  So we stand up, bring Jessica and Zoe in from out in the hall, go to the stand, introduce ourselves, the judge asks if there is anyone that objects, then just like that he says he will sign the order.  All that waiting for less than five minutes face time in front of the judge.  Meh.

To celebrate we did what the judge had recommended, we got some Ice Cream at Sub Zero.  It is tasty stuff.  So that concludes our Friday anyways.  Saturday we went to the fair.   We had a lot of fun, and had some tasty treats.  We looked at the cows, sheep, and goats.  They have this butter sculpture that someone does every year, and so we saw that.  Mica and Alex, Jessica’s sisters, both worked at the fair this year so we had to go visit them.  Alex got us some deep fried oreos, twinkies, and snickers and boy were they delicious!!  Mica was working in the Jeep  Chrysler section and right by her they had a setup for the Xbox 360 kinect.  That is fun!  Much better than the Wii ever was.  I will have to make a section about that, because this is getting long.