Illinois and back again

My mom: (re: the iHop in Batavia, IL) You should have been here last week, there was a camera crew filming here. Our little iHop is gonna be in a movie!
My brother: (screams) Batman?!


(After talking to middle-aged guy about Sci-Fi for two minutes)
Guy: You don't meet many girls who like sci-fi. Here, let me give you my card. If you ever want to watch sci-fi together.
Me: I think I’m a bit young for you.
Guy: How old are you?
Me: Twenty-four. *waves hand* These are not the droids you’re looking for.

I am recently back from Batavia, IL, where my mother and brother live.
Epic picspam incoming, potentially nomming your internets.

Another trip to Sarasota-Bradenton Airport. It has wireless internet and I've been known to camp out at the Starbucks there. Not this time though as I was knitting my Stewardess scarf at the gate.

Window outside the plane in Sarasota. We just managed to miss some pretty crap weather, but look at that sky before it started to storm.

The flight from FL to IL was at night and I was struggling to stay awake. Until I rediscovered my love for Angry Birds.

I got to see my ex-dog again, Hunter. Best dog in the world. He bowled me over when he saw me and I actualy messed my back up pretty good when I was smashed into a large ceramic flowerpot that was on the ground.

We played Tripoley on Saturday.

My uncle Jim had the worst luck by far so he grabbed Hannah for good luck.

It didn't help.
Left: my uncle's loot.
Right: my aunt's loot.
Aunt Peg killed us all. Midway through the game my mother and my aunt switched seats because we thought her seat was lucky. It didn't work and Peg won the big pot of coins in the end.

I am ashamed to say I ran out of coins first and having Lu on my team didn't help.

Sunday morning we wanted to take a bunch of pictures together so I was testing out my timer function. My brother is such a goof, he would mess the picture up right before the timer went off.



My brother is known for his epic ability to photobomb a perfectly normal picture. Here are the best ones from our photoshoot:

I call this one "Vincent needs an exorcism."

Making fun of me for being short.

Immaeatchoo.

Haha, I have no caption for this one.

Or this one, loling. Way to ruin a great picture vin!

Troll.

My favorite restaurant at Midway International Airport in Chicago.
Tasty sammiches and they proudly brew Starbucks.

The flight from IL to FL seemed much faster than FL to IL because it was day-time. I knit the whole time and my seat-mate was bumped to business class so I had the whole row to myself.

I have no shame, and hit starbucks soon as I got to Sarasota's airport again.

And a banana bread.

Iced tall white mocha. Breakfast of champions and people who don't want to sleep.

Beautiful day in Sarasota.

Doctor Who started up again with the second half of season 32 today. The episode was called Let's Kill Hitler.
The Doctor: "Crop circles to get my attention? Seriously?"
Rory: "Well, you never answer your phone..."


"I was on my way to this gay-gypsy-bar mitzvah-for-the-disabled when I suddenly thought, 'Gosh, the Third Reich's a bit rubbish, I think I'll kill the Führer.' Who's with me?!"
Ahaha. I don't really like River Song but that line was perfect for her character.


I would like just like to mention that I only had starbucks once, when I got back to Sarasota. I didn't get one every time I saw a starbucks. If that were the case, I would never sleep.


Current song:
"Tattoos" by Jackpot. This song makes me want to rob a bank then drive my getaway car off a cliff.