Last weekend, my youngest siblings came to hang out with us for a couple of days! It was pretty awesome. We ate a lot of good food and played games every night and watched movies!! AND I woke them up at a reasonable hour every day and made them clean my house and entertain Daisy for me! Because that's what Aunts and Uncles are for! I think they'll be back soon. I know I would come back if I got to scrub the floors and bathtub in my house for free! [oh wait, I already do! that's why I come home every day! hahaha.]
Chris had so much fun teaching Rebekah and Joseph his favorite game from his childhood. It's called Extinction, and it's some sort of deck [herd] building game that takes you through the Cretacious, Triassic, and Jurassic periods...or something [is it obvious that I didn't actually play?]. They loved it and requested to play it two nights in a row.
On Friday, we headed up to Burlingame to take a gander at the Pez Memorabilia Museum [slash toy museum slash banned toy museum], and the World's Largest Pez Dispenser! It wasn't exactly what I was expecting, but it was pretty cool nonetheless. I have never seen so many Pez dispensers in one place in my entire life. And did you know they make SOUR Pez?! They actually taste good!
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| Spiderman PEZ dispenser signed by Stan Lee [isn't his autograph legit?!] |
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| TWO autographed Princess Leia PEZ! One by Carrie Fischer and one by George Lucas. |
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| PEZ vending machine! |
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| PEZ sets for Ratatouille and Meet The Robinsons! Obscure-ish and awesome. |
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| The Guinness Book of World Records Certified "World's Largest PEZ Dispenser"! It's 7ft tall, and will dispense a rectangular box containing a PEZ dispenser and pack of candy. If it was for use, that is. They don't use it since it won the world record, because they don't want it to break. The owner of this museum and two other guys built it themselves. |
Bekah and Joseph each picked out a souvenir, and they promised to do chores and earn an "allowance" from me in order to get them. Hence the aforementioned scrubbing and mopping and why I think they actually *will* be back sometime ;) Rebekah picked out these bobblehead figurines of Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie, and Joseph snagged a replica of the original PEZ dispenser + peppermint candy [the first and only flavor of PEZ for quite some time]. I grabbed sour PEZ candy and a little dispenser of Squishy from Monsters University. And some postcards. Because, why not??
Anyway. We had a picnic in the park after the PEZ excursion, and then came home to do some chores, and then I made stuffed zucchini for dinner, and then we went to a ward movie night to watch Wreck-It Ralph! It was a great day indeed.
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| feast your eyes on the funky tomato that became part of our stuffed zucchini. also pictured: the strip of concrete that is our "yard". |
On Saturday we woke up bright and early to scarf some coconut waffles before heading out to the Dreamworks pre-screening of their new movie,
Turbo!!
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| this is an old promo picture...it actually came out today, July 17 |
We all really, really liked it. And it's out in theatres today! GO SEE IT! It really grew on us throughout the day and we found ourselves quoting it [quotability is definitely the mark of a good movie in my book]. I loved their representation of garden snail life. And it was farfetched juuuust enough to still be believable! It made me smile and chuckle.
The rest of Saturday was a smidge lame, we were sleepy and Daisy was keen on nursing every hour or so. But we grabbed In-N-Out on our way back across the bay [delish, as always], and enjoyed a nice leisurely evening with the rest of my family!
Please come back soon, Aunt Rebekah and Uncle Joe. You guys are awesome.
