Mom-imposed Techno-no-no Week

This was imposed by me in an effort to reconnect and re-engage with my boys, as well as show them that we don't need all that technology to have a good time.  The rules were simple: 7 consecutive days of no technology and a day gets tacked onto the end if any of us use technology (except music).  Also, it was a good excuse to play Seattle tourists.

Things the kids and I did during our Techno-no-no Week (11Feb2012-17Feb2012):

(in no particular order other than what popped into my head as I was writing this)

• Visited the Seattle Aquarium
• Visited the Woodland Park Zoo
• Visited the EMP (Experience Music Project and Sci-Fi Museum)
• Visited the Space Needle 2x (1x during the day and 1x at night)
• Discovered a totally awesome skate shop called The Black Market in Seattle (near the elephant car wash)
• Chatted with the really nice guys at The Black Market
• Met a cute dog named Pizza at The Black Market
• Received several free stickers proclaiming our fondness for The Black Market
• Visited the library and checked out a bunch of books
• Read a poopload of books, magazines, graphic novels, and comic books
• Listened to music in the car
• Bought the kids each a personal CD player
• Showed them Chas.' CD books and the contents therein with permission to listen to everything
• Lounged (me) and swam (kids) at the Y
• Perused a really cool antique store
• Frequented numerous gift shops
• Rode a carousel
• Ate at Dick's in Seattle (lots of giggling there)
• Perused book stores
• Looked up words in the dictionary
• Shared space and chilled
• Did I mention we read a bunch and listened to lots of music?

Things the kids and I did NOT do during our Technno-no-no Week:

• Watch TV
• Play online computer games
• Watch YouTube videos on the computer
• Look up random stuff on the computer
• Play on the Xbox 360
• Play on the Wii
• Play on the SuperNES
• Play with Nintendo 3DSs
• Play games on my Kindle Fire
• Watch videos (Netflix or Amazon Prime) on my Kindle Fire
• Look up random stuff on my Kindle Fire
• Play games on my phone
• Look up random stuff on my phone
• Read blogs at work (me, obviously)

The week was not without challenges, but overall, we had a great time.