Uno's Pizza

We met up for lunch after the Children's Museum at Uno's. The pizza was pretty good. But spending time with family was even better. I can't wait to go back!

In Motion

We had so much fun in Indiana! These pictures speak for themselves.

Highball

One of the games the older kids played was to throw these rubber balls which stick to flat surfaces at the windows. They tried to get them to the top of the window, and came pretty close sometimes.
I asked the kids what their shirts say, and my niece read it to me. I then asked her why some of the letters are backwards and she said "They wanted it to look like a kid wrote it, but I don't write letters backwards."

Breakfast with the kids

In my recent trip to Indiana, I had a blast with my brother's family. We went to a Pacers game, the largest children's museum in the world, and lots of other fun things. It might take a while to chronicle the whole trip! One morning we had a wholesome breakfast of Chip Mate's Cereal, which is similar to Cookie Crisp. Afterward, the kids wanted to play the game on the back of the box. So we rolled dice and moved mini cookies on the game board. A little while later, we came back to the cereal because my niece had a great idea - take the mini chocolate chips off of the mini cookies, and put them on bran flakes, to create the first ever chocolate chip branflake cereal. My nephew volunteered to eat the chipless mini cookies. I think the chocolate chip branflakes were a big hit!

An Historic Day

The economy was the biggest concern. That's why we had this tsunami toward the left. At least, that was the bottom line on the National news covering the elections. Well, we certainly will see change. I don't know how the unchecked Democratic majority is going to improve the economic outlook. I also wonder whether our new president will swear to uphold the Constitution, given that his vision for America is quite different from that of our founding fathers. My biggest concern is that we will lose much of our defense funding and be more vulnerable to terrorism. But we made the bed and now we are going to sleep in it.

Madness

This is the intersection of Dexter, Florentia, Freemont, Westlake, and Nickerson. I was impressed with the complexity when I saw this sign with 5 street names, so I took a picture.

Jack O'Lantern

According to Wikipedia, the name "Jack O'Lantern" comes from "the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o'-lantern." Not as Irish as I would have guessed. This is one I made on Monday, already starting to go bad.