Market Value Assessments on a Holiday Morning

This morning, Daniel was lying in bed, very scrupulously waiting until exactly 10:00 to get up - I don't know whether that was Amy's idea or his own...  Since it's the 4th of July, of course there was no hurry to get off to Boys-and-Girls-Club Day Camp, or anywhere else.  I had been sleeping on the floor of his room, and I was also in lounging-around-on-a-holiday mode.  Then Daniel asked me an important question.

"Daddy, how many pieces of gold does it cost to buy a castle?"

I had to take a guess; my guess was a thousand.

Then he asked me a far less true-to-life economic question:

"How much does a cat cost?"

I'm not much of a cat-purchaser, but I guessed a hundred dollars.

(July 4, 2014)