Am I even awake? Is this a dream? Too much is going on. I'm very disoriented. But, I have several fun things for you!

I made a Holiday Card last week - check it out! Funny thing is that I heard the same song at Ballard Market on Sunday.

People are funny. Yesterday I did laundry (washing) and so was my neighbor (drying). I've never seen this person before, but we live right next to each other. Before she left I said "Good luck with your drying!" She replied, "You're welcome!"



Alice surprised me and took me to Leavenworth on Saturday! For those who don't know, Leavenworth is a complete Bavarian-themed city in Northern Washington. Closest thing to real Bavaria I'm likely to see for quite some time. It was soooo cool, both literally and figuratively. A coworker, who also happened to share this destination with us, said that it was six degrees! That is cooler than cool - it's ice cold! We had a lot of fun there, eating at Der Munchen Haus and walking down Der Streetzhen and listening to Das Gut Singing and Der Yodelers. There were many ümlauts.

The real highlights for me were everybody's love for silly hats in that town (the silly hat store had a huge line outside of it all day), and a man dressed as a giant nutcracker. He looked absolutely crazy, sorry, no picture. I do, however, have a picture of a kid wearing a banana hat:



I thought this sign was pretty funny, for a store that sells boomerangs:



Good times, I'm so glad we went to Europe this weekend.

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time - Top facts about Mr. T.

Hawaii is only 233 hours away (including timezone differences). Tick, tock, tick, tock...

Jason discovered that I'm #1 in Google for Gwen Stefani Nakend with an Orangutan.

Water balloons in zero-g look really, really cool.