Wiiiiiiii!
It’s here! I picked him up tonight from the EB Games on Broadway. We got the Wii, the “Wii Play” pack (which we thought was going to contain an extra nunchuk along with the Wiimote, but it doesn’t), and the Zelda game. Apparently the Australian retailers didn’t get any stock – consoles or games – beyond what we pre-ordered. So yay for forethought! We cracked open the box as soon as the Snook got home. Installation was pretty darn easy, and it picked up our wireless network and downloaded the required updates fairly quickly. We created our “Mii” characters (little avatars that you use in the games) and then fired up Wii Sports. Moving the controller around is both really weird and really natural at the same time. We started on some training modes just to figure out how it worked. They were amusing, but I’ll admit I started to get bored after a while. Then we figured out how to play head-to-head. THAT RULES. We played a couple games of tennis, and then a whole game of bowling (in which I broke 100 for the first time EVER). Then we put in the Wii Play game and had some fun with Ping Pong, laser hocky, and the shooting range. Suddenly it was 10:30 and we’d been playing for two hours. And get this – my shoulders are actually a little sore! This is definitely more of a workout than usual videogaming. (And the Snook burnt a lot more calories than he usually does playing Warcraft.) I’m looking forward to cracking open Zelda on the weekend…

Oh! And we took a couple more pictures. Here’s the Snook doing an impressive follow-through during our bowling match. And here’s me trying to hit a home run during our baseball training. (Sadly, that’s how I hit in real life too.) But the FUNNIEST thing is, I just got an e-mail from one of the Snook’s friends who was watching us on CouchCam. And check out the great action shot he got of Dr. Amy Jones!