Candy Shop Windows

My family and I were on a trip to Yellowstone, when we visited an old west type ghost town called Virginia City (or was is Nevada City? I forget, we did visit both though... At one of them we got to pan for gold! It was pretty awesome!)

Anyways there was an old fashioned candy shop there, as part of the town. We had just finished walking through it, when the candy people started making a batch of cinnamon taffy right in the display window! Well, I guess they weren't really making it but they were cutting up the big blob of taffy and wraping in in little papers, but it was pretty cool nontheless.

As we were enjoying the smell of fresh taffy and watching the inner working of the taffy wraping buisness, I found myself going in for a closer look and... BONK! I totally smacked my head on the window! The people inside tried not to laugh, but how do you not laugh at that? Outside, me and the fam were cracking up! Before we left, the workers came out and gave us some free samples of the cinnamon taffy they were wraping.

Good times! :)

CRAYONS!!

Today, Alan and I made crayons!! Yep, real crayons!! We made a ton, but most of them didn't turn out very cool, so pretty soon, we decided to make some poo colored ones. There was this one that we took out of the mold and it was still hot, so we made it a curly poo crayon!! I insist that they are pronounced "cran" but Alan doesn't seem to agree with me. Which is lame, since I'm totally right.

Yep, crayons are cool! That's right, crayons, not crens, crans, or crowns... CRAYONS!!! By the way, the poo crayons looked very realistic!

And don't think we are lame for making crayons on a saturday. Only people who are truly confident in their popularity (lol right.) can do something so lame and make it look cool.

Haha! We're cool! :) And we ate cashews!

and we made a cucumber maaaaan!!

Lawn Gnomes

Personally, I don't understand the lawn gnome fetish some people seem to have. I think they're creepy. But in almost every neighborhood, you will find at LEAST one..

yeah... I mean, they're cool little garden doods, but you've got to set a limit! I mean seriously! Q!

This person is crazy -->
I think the expedia gnome guy is sorta scary, and have you seen the movie Chicken Run?

I like the Expedia gnome!! He's cool, and like when he tries to put the electric plug in the socket in Europe!? It's golden! But I agree, too much of a good thing, can be a good thing, but lawn gnomes are not one of these things...

wow.. our blog is SO insightful! So, if you ever need lawn gnome advice, one or two is okay depending on the size of your yard. Four is pushing the limit a little bit..

This has been another incredible post from Shannon and Alan. Join us next time for advice on wooden ducks. :)

Opening Ceremonies in Beijing

I discovered something this week. Chinese people have a lot of time on they're hands. Did you see that stuff they did!? All those peeps under the boxes and stuff... purdy crazy

The Chinese have been known to do things that people never even considered. They DID invent fireworks, after all... Um... We need something more exciting to blog about..

Yoos... Yoos we do

I just snorted!