I Live With Creepers

I should've known...

 Things were getting weird

I'm being watched

BOO!

Sealions Thru Gorillas

I think I've been to this zoo every time I come to Chicago. That's okay. It's free. And it delivers. So after we convinced Yuula the slides were broken, there was nothing holding us back. 

 Sealions

 Lions

 Jaguar

 Tiger

 Monkeys

 Gorilla

 more Gorilla

My favorite monkey

Artistic Advancements In Taxidermy

Hangjongeren

Ophelia

Jewlery

Whiskas

Thanatos & Hypnos

Geologische Vondst I

by the artists knowns as Idiots

Mall Hallow's Eve

Surviving Sandy: Day Three

We woke up this morning with the realization that this was not going to be the day we got power back. Neighbors were found wandering the streets muttering blasphemes such as "Saturday, Sunday at best" and "Jersey is running out of gas". We had to decide whether we should go buy shotguns at Walmart and hunker down to protect our homefront or load up the car with the bare necessities and head for greener pastures. Scary Halloween decisions. We decided to dress Yuula like a lion and take her to the mall.

I had heard of these mall trick-or-treats but refused to believe they could replace the real thing. I was right. What a travesty. Ghosts were rolling over in their graves. A line that wrapped the interior of the mall twice, a systematic "parade" from store to store with communistic candy rationing. The GNC was handing out vitamins and they weren't even Flintstones! Let's remember to never attempt that again. It shouldn't be hard.

Yuula did get a decent share of candy however. Her first box of Nerds was a hit. I think she even ate one off the ground. Yeah, she definitely did.

Giving up and sucking a lolly

We met up at the mall with the Trunks and since it was the girls turn to decide where to eat we ended up at a mysteriously empty Chili's. 

But that was fine with us because it gave the girls a chance to run around some open space. That and the spilled margaritas, the waitress didn't hate us, no. Not one bit.

just let them

This was the first night we transitioned from blanket fort to sleeping on the daybed mattresses in front of the fireplace. Temperatures outside were starting to drop and we weren't messing around anymore.

No Steed Can Tame This Wild Beast

yee-haw?

Lions Slide And Lions Swing

lions like to slide too

feeling free

traffic jam

who's baby weighs more?

we're not getting anywhere on these things

no hesitation

swing lion

try and stop me

That Graveyard Is Cute

It is inexplicable forces at work when a 24 year old girl can find herself 38 weeks pregnant shin deep in a Pocono river dressed like a lion in a nightie keeping the company of a chicken & a Mexican wrestler or find a hidden traincar in the woods filled with delicious tikka masala and eat ice cream made of rocks. But the rice pudding tastes like lysol. It's best told in photos.

PART I.
















PART II.
















PART III.













And they all lived happily ever after...