Fun With Cara

Cara's visit has been so nice! Although I wouldn't say it's been action packed with exciting events, I have been able to spend time with her, which is plenty good enough for me. Here are a few pix:

Mikey got a ton of new stuff when we went to Target, including the skull hat and skeleton hand gloves. I actually bought 4 pairs of these. By this morning (24 hours later), we were down to 2 pairs and the twins were engaged in a death match over whose they were.

Car & Mikey, being goofy. Not a very good picture, but she is looking SO good and skinny!

We went to Boo Radley's this morning, and had to try out the mouths on a stick. Love them!

Yay Yay Yay!

Cara is here! Yay x a million! She, Mikey and I hit Target this morning. Mikey scored big time thanks to soft touch Car: new hoodie, new bike helmet and new Bakugan toys.

Another Roadside Attraction

Just in case you need a break in the Dakotas...

The most gargantuan cow is undoubtedly Salem Sue, in New Salem, ND. She stands 38 feet tall on School Hill, the only hill in sight, overlooking I-94. Sue stares intently over the flat fields that stretch to the horizon, her reinforced fiberglass skin taut and shiny.

A Must-See!

Cara and Big Tony have made it as far as Illinois on day 1 of their road trip (that's approx. 600 miles, they are the world's most insane drivers. Thank god I'm not in that car, someone would have been stabbed with knitting needles) I think they need to stop tomorrow and visit this scenic wonder:

Jolly Green Giant

Blue Earth, Minnesota

Putting even giant animals in their place, the Jolly Green Giant dwarfs all other North Dakota / Minnesota highway leviathans. At 55-feet tall, he stands head-and-husk above a rival 2D 2-dimensional green giant in nearby Le Sueur (The Official Birthplace of the Jolly Green Giant). Blue Earth is also the Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sandwich*, but with no fiberglass colossus to commemorate it, how are tourists supposed to know, Blue Earth???

* July 2006: This claim seems to be in dispute. Someone wrote and told us Blue Earth is actually Birthplace of the Eskimo Pie, but that claim is in dispute as well (Onawa, Iowa?).

Katie and I visited the Giant on our road trip and it was great. And you can get a Blizzard when you are finished looking at the Giant, because he is located right behind the DQ! Win-Win.

Cara is Coming For a Visit!!!

Yay X 1 Million! Carrie is driving across the country with big Tony to deliver a car to Katie, so we actually get to see her for a couple of days!!! The plan is to cook all of her favorite foods (sloppy joes and niblets every day) and make her as homesick as possible so she stays. Are you with me, people?

PS That's me in the stupid looking glasses, impossibly young too. And I made that dress and pinafore that sad Cara is wearing, and even smocked it (I know you have no idea what smocking is, you ignoramuses) And she is super sad here because Santa forgot her gift at my office Christmas party. How terrible is THAT?

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This is SO Wrong!

So, I'm standing in the checkout line at Safeway, and I see THIS hideous perversion:

WHO SAID ARCHIE COMICS SHOULD GET A MAKEOVER???

Nothing wrong with 'old school' Archie, I say. Except that he is proposing to VERONICA. Um, what's up with that? BETTY 4EVER.