The Mall Has It All

To take advantage of something to do on such a miserable rainy day we took the whole fam to the Grand Traverse Mall. When I was a kid there was only one mall, the Cherryland Mall, which is still in town only existing as an open air mall called the Cherryland Center.

We parked by Macy's and headed straight to a structure that has been seen on this blog before:

THE GERM TREE

No, that is not me balancing a potato on the back of my head. Where is that can of spray on hair when you need it?

Yeah?
I'm On a Boat, shorty!

Dad I think they left....
...and they were off to the races

Goody goody gumballs!
Making sure to touch them all to build immunity.

Double Bubble...I heard Cheech Marin say that once

Onwards towards the Carousel, stopping to climb onto this John Deere

No you aren't seeing things. We're a big city baby, we got TWO gumball gourmet islands! Woot!


Coming at you on the Wheels of Steel, on the 1s and 2s, DJ TV

Out of the way hippies!~
Hey pretty lady, got room for two...
C;mon pretty pretty, how 'bout a smile

Out of my cab cracka!
A burp? A hiccup? An outburst? Your explanation will say more about you than this photo
On a serious note there were these older kids playing in this little wacky car area and one of them tried to hop into the ride Jack was in. My boy stiff armed the kid out of the train. I felt kinda bad but the older kid just shrugged his shoulders.

The merry-go-round!

I elected NOT to ride the ride
Neither did she.
I don't think Debbie expected to hold Jack for the whole ride. She didn't end up doing that, but it was close.

Rainy Wednesday

It has been raining all week around these parts. Tons of rain. Which is nice for all the yard work that has been done, but not so nice as it has ceased(for now) the shed project.

So what do you do when the rain is pouring outside?

Why, stay inside and take pictures!
Your What?
"Tin Roof Rusted"
I don't get it, is this about the old shed? Dad, I haven't been around long enough to get all your jokes.
You know what Dad, I take that back. You are funny...
LOOKIN'!~ HA~!


That is not a ghost. That is my hand. I think.
Here is Sophia, sitting up on her own, which she has started doing not too long ago. You just sort of sit there and look in amazement and realize that this girl is six months old. I feel like I've missed so much. Then you start to daydream about the day she was born....
...and she falls over while you are daydreaming.
This is Naomi Klein. I wanted to mention her book the Shock Doctrine (to see if this effects the Google Ads) and to mention that her birthday is May 8th, which is also Keith Jarrett's birthday and Debbie's.
Can I just say that man alive do I look Haggard. Aging. Can't escape it.
This black and white shot isn't as bad, but look at those headlines! It looks like someone's elbow!
Aw c'mon Dad, you don't look that Haggard. Look at George Jones, he looks like a pair of alligator shoes!
No, not your old Econ teacher silly. I'm talking about the possum, the country singer! You know...B-Double E-Double R-U-N? No Show Jones? Thumper? No? Sheesh, you call yourself a music man....
The argument that followed woke up Jack.
I would like to point out the long lasting presence of this Under Armor t-shirt on Jack. I think it is one of my favorite bits of his wardrobe and it has popped up on the different blogs a few different times since my Dad bought it for Jack in 2007. It used to be so long it looked like a one piece tennis dress. Now? Take a look.




The white things are whiskers.


Dad's a goofball Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Dad's a goofball Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap

Yo Gabba Gabba Hey Gabba Gabba Ho!

To the MALL!