(Do you see how DETERMINED Em was NOT to smile?! --Click on it. You gotta see that face closer!)
A couple of weeks ago I drowned my poor iPhone in Diet Coke...PAUSE FOR STORY....I was at target with my kids and I had gotten a 32oz. Diet Coke (like I always do) and I had put it in my somewhat large purse (like I always do) so that it would not tip over in the cart. We walked to the back of the store and there I was in the toy aisle with my kids when I looked down to see everything in my purse literally floating in a sea of Diet Coke and ice! I don't know how it happened! My heart sunk when I realized that my phone was completely submerged. I dried it off as best I could and left it turned off like I had been told you should do when a phone gets wet. I even came home and buried it in a bowl of rice to help draw out the liquid. Around 24 hours later I took it out and turned it on. At first the screen was dim but looked normal. Within a few minutes though the "White Screen of Death " descended and it was all down hill from there. I could still receive calls and the screen buttons still worked, I just couldn't see them. I tried everything! I got on YouTube and looked up videos on what to do with the "White Screen of Death" (do you hear a really deep echoing voice everytime you read that? Good!) but nothing worked. I tried restoring it on the computer. Nothing. Finally I admitted to myself that I would have to take it to the Apple Store downtown. Here's the problem--my insurance plan on it does NOT cover liquid damage--Egads!!! So...! Since I had to go downtown anyway, why not drag my sis and her boys with us and make a day of it with the kids and the fountain?
It was supposed to be a nice, sunny day but actually turned out to be overcast and a little windy, but the kids had fun anyway...even if they did get cold walking around wet afterwards. Amber was kind enough to watch my kiddos while I went into the Apple Store to see what I could do about my poor phone....PAUSE AGAIN FOR MORE STORY...So on my way in I though to myself, "Hmmm...Maybe I should drop it now so that I can honestly say 'Oh! I dropped it!'" when they asked me what happened. Don't worry, honesty won out and I didn't do that! I just hoped they wouldn't ask. I got in there and a nice Apple Employee took my phone and informed me that usually they could just replace the screen and top third of the phone and it would probably fix the "White Screen of Death Death Death " (You heard the echo that time didn't you?) He said if that didn't work they could just replace the phone for me. HE DIDN'T ASK WHAT HAPPENED!!! So I let him take it and do his thing and sure enough he came back to me and said they would have to replace it. "I tried changing out the parts and it didn't work so something else must have happened in there," He said. You bet something else happened but I'm not telling you what! I thought. So there you have it! My phone was replaced for free and I didn't have to lie to avoid the $299 replacement charge I technically should have had to pay! When I was done I went out to see how things were at the fountain and the kids were having fun.
Well, except for Em anyway. Apparently she got out there and freaked out the first time the water hit her. So she was in a "mood" and tried really hard not to smile or look at me much but I got some cute pics of her anyway.
It's funny what you'll do to get cute pics of your kids. At one point I looked over at my sister and just had to laugh at the positions that we will get into to get just the right shot at just the right angle.
After the fountain we went to lunch and then got ice cream cones ( I highly recommend the Pina Colada smoothie at Orange Julius...Yum! Just don't think about the calories!). It was a fun day!
