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Wii Mania
If you don't own a Wii, you should definitely put it on your list! It is a game of fun for the whole family and it gets you off the sofa and moving! I started looking for the Wii before Christmas. Because we homeschool, our children were only slightly aware of this new Nintendo system coming out and they hadn't asked for it, but we wanted to get it so it would be a big surprise...
Well, good thing they didn't ask for it. I sat with my finger poised to purchase the Wii from Amazon, but I was not quick enough. Later, I entered an Amazon raffle, but I didn't win that either. I haunted stores: Walmart, Toys R Us, EB Games, Gamestop, Target. I surfed websites...nothing. A couple of weeks before Christmas, I found out our local Walmart was going to be offering them on a certain day. I went at 9 pm hoping to be first in line for what I thought would be a midnight purchase. I got there and no one else was waiting. I was thrilled. But then I discovered, that they wouldn't go on sale until 8 am! I just wasn't up to spending a night in Walmart...so I came home and set the alarm for very early. I arrived at the Walmart at 5 am. There were 8 people waiting in the garden department (two were in a tent). They told me that there were only 8 units available...so I was out of luck. If only I had had the fortituded and stayed the night, then I would have been first! So I went home, empty handed and with the knowledge that Wii wasn't going to be under the Christmast tree.
But my search continued...December, January, and then the 16th of January, my husband and I went out to dinner by ourselves to celebrate Valentine's Day. Then we went to Walmart to buy some DVDs to take home and watch. I rounded the corner into the electronics area and spotted 5 Wii's lined up...waiting! I felt like I had won the lottery!!!!
The next morning, I hooked the Wii up (and of course played it) before going to get the kids from our friend's house. I didn't tell them about the Wii, only that there had been some changes at home while they were gone. And there had been...I had decorated for St. Patrick's Day and I had done something else, but I can't remember what now. It took them about 5 minutes before they discovered the Wii. And they spent the rest of the weekend playing it.
We are all enjoying the sports games and hope to get Zelda soon. I am just amazed at the fact that I feel like I am playing baseball and tennis and golf. We are all learning about sports that we previously knew nothing about. And we are enjoying the exercise too. And it is exercise. Play a few tennis matches and you will see what I mean.
If you don't have a Wii, I hope you will get one soon, because they are great fun!
Nintendo, you have outdone yourself!
