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| While I don't remember much about my birthday that was over a year ago, I do remember a few things. We had the "party" on the 9th, which is Maurice's birthday, so it was kind of a double-birthday-party type thing. Ok, it wasn't really a party at all, but rather our second anual Star Wars Marathon. We did not watch Episode I, because no one liked it. Instead, Weird Al's music video for The Saga Begins was used. We all sang along...except me...I don't sing. I got Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I from Becca. Maurice doesn't remember what he got me. I don't remember either. |
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| For Spring break, mom and I went to Wichita (since all of my friends were busy doing other things). We spent the weekend there, and then on the way back home we stopped in Hutchinson. Click the links for pictures! Museum of World Treasures: This museum was really small, but it still had some interesting stuff. The dinosaur bones were cool and the egyptian exhibit was interesting, but the second floor up just didn't hold my interest very much. Though the kid's play area was a bit of fun too. Mom and I couldn't resist going into the castle and sitting on the throne, especially since the sign said not to. Starlite Drive-In: A drive-in movie theater that does triple features. $10 per carload gets you 3 movies. We went to see Happy Feet, Night at the Museum, and Eragon. I had of course already seen Happy Feet (twice) but you can never really get enough of that movie. Night at the Museum was new for the both of us and by the time Eragon was supposed to start, we were so tired we just decided to go back and sleep. Good thing too, because when we saw it later, it wasn't worth staying anyway. Exploration Place: More for kids than anything, I had been there once for a school trip and I liked it so much I wanted to go back. We went when they had the Titanic exhibit, so I got to see that again too (I had gone once in North Carolina when I visited Jeanine). We didn't take any pictures, but we had some fun. The shows in the IMAX dome were awesome (though they made me sick). The Loony Bin: A comedy club that we went to. I loved the guy in the wheelchair. His handicapped parking space sign impression was awesome. This was my first experience with (live) standup and I'm glad it was a good one. Sedgwick County Zoo: I like zoos, I can't help it. The Australia and South America exhibit was closed when we went, but the jungle was fun to go through (and get frizzy hair from) and the hippos were being active and silly for us. We also had an interesting run-in with a rhino, and mommy did NOT like the bird part. Cosmosphere: This was our stop in Hutchinson. It didn't have as much as I thought it would but I still had fun. The IMAX dome here was not as impressive as the one at the Exploration Place, and the show was even less impressive. The planetarium was much more interesting and Dr. Goddard's Lab made me laugh, so it was doing something right :) Just a side note here, when we were getting our tickets for the museum of world treasures, the lady had to ask if I was over 12. Hm... |
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| Click here for Pictures! This was quite fun. I went twice, once with mom and then once with my friends Becca and Maurice. There was lots of stuff I would have loved to buy but of course I couldn't. There was this guy there that played the most awesome instrument ever, like a piano without the keys...and only TWO hammers. It sounded really cool and mom and I just had to sit and watch him for a while. There really is a lot to do there and it's quite easy to get lost. I'm just sad I didn't take more pictures. Perhaps next time? |
| Halloween was really fun this time around. I had the idea for a dead bride costume for a while, and then one day our neighbors were having a yard sale and they happened to be selling their daughter's old wedding dress. It had some stains on it so they couldn't sell it for a decent wedding dress price, so I got it for $20. Best bargain ever! It was a tad bit too big for me, and the bottom of the dress was a whole foot too long, but I figured since halloween is sometimes cold, the extra room would be good for wearing clothes underneath, and as for the length...I'm a dead bride...it was going to get chopped up anyway. So the dress went through my lovely "alterations," meaning I took scissors and steak knives to it. Then I poured liberal amounts of fake blood in the large front gashes where I was stabbed and stuff. Then we made the UGLIEST veil ever (because really the wedding dress wasn't all that pretty to begin with anyway), a creepy looking bouquet (the main part of which was bought at goodwill, the rest was pieces of ugly fake flowers from walmart) and voila! Add a bit of makeup and some more blood and some skeleton dangly earrings and I was a dead bride. I know the dress looks kind of silly on me with my t-shirt plainly visible underneath and the waist being past my hips, but you get the idea. Mom was a dead nurse, which was also a fun costume to get the parts for. We already had the cape, and a long time ago mom had made me a paper nurse hat, but that didn't look as real. So we ordered a REAL nurse hat from online. Then we went to goodwill and got mom a belt and a shirt and skirt that could get dirty (it ended up staying clean and untorn, but that may be remedied later :D ), and she got some nice canvas shoes (there was actually a pair of real nurse shoes at goodwill but they were way too small) and some opaque tights and she was good to go. But then mom found this awesome heart in Dillons that BEAT...it made the beating sound and the sides would actually pump inward. So she held that and a gigantic syringe that we found in walmart that's meant for pumping juice into meat. And then of course we had to find a stethescope. Luckily we found a doctor costume on sale in Target that came with one. So mom put on her makeup too and a bit of blood and then...YAY, she's a dead nurse! She asked all the little kids if they were there for their shots (she brought the giant needle forward) or for their heart translplants (she would bring the heart forward and it would start beating...some people actually jumped away after that). It was really quite fun. Maurice was with us this Halloween as well (because I dragged him along). He wore the men's kimono and hakama that I bought. The sword was his own. It wasn't really a costume per se, and no, he wasn't necessarily a samurai, so I guess he was...Japanese. lol. For Halloween he was a Japanese man...with a sword. I'd call him Kenshin but he's missing some long, red hair. Also this halloween we had a new addition to our props. Well, a few new additions. Clyde, as I have come to call him, was the best new addition. He is a full-size, fully posable skeleton. This year he was dressed as my groom. We bought a $4 suit from goodwill (and a tie), a sturdy cable to hang him with, and a neat little flower for his boutonniere. We tied him up with the cable and then covered that with a rope so it looked like he hanged himself. The whole night I kept asking the little kids if they were there to be my new groom. I would then point to Clyde and tell them, "That's what happened to the last one." One guy even proposed to me with a candy bar when I asked if he was there to be my groom. And of course, Psycho Bunny got an update with some new blood and new "smoke." A few of the other additions included some new tombstones, a big blacklight, a glow-in-the-dark spraypainted body outline, and orange rope lights to mark the path to the candy (safety first I guess). We had another fog machine (smaller than the old one) but I'm saving that for the dragon head we are still working on. Yes, we have a dragon head. One year it WILL be out with the rest of the props. I just have to work on his setup. |
| 12-16-07 Caroline Rhea was in Salina to do some standup, so mom and I went to go see her. The ice storm had just swept through, so the turnout was a bit small, but it was still really fun. I even bought the CD of her show because it was just HILARIOUS! |
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| We used to go to Worlds of Fun every year, but that stopped a while back. So one day mom and I decided we were going to go check out their Halloween Haunt, because it looked pretty cool. We didn't take our cameras because we thought it was supposed to rain, but then it didn't, and there were a few things we wanted to take pictures of but couldn't. So we bought a disposable camera (at a hefty price) to get the few shots we wanted. Here's what came out of it. (Note: a lot of these may seem a little fuzzy. That's not just the camera's fault. It was also foggy from the fog machines, dark, and I think when we developed the pictures, they were lightened. I darkened them again. So yeah. Not the best quality.) |
| Wizard of Oz Characters: Dorothy and the Witch w/ mom, cowardly lion, tin man, scarecrow, and witch alone. |
| At Le Taxitour: Mom and Kim in line, Kim the driver, skeletons in a car, skeleton cop on a motorcycle. |
| Mom and Kim: Kim with a performer, Mom with skulls, Kim and Mom with a floating skeleton, Kim by a grave. |
| Other stuff: Floating skeleton, bone wagon, skeleton on a Fu Lion, and creepy clowns. |
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