I'm home. Here come some very jetlagged pictures. Just the ones from the party for a starters.
(Smaugy, can you repost the Fred ones in the Fred thread? Tiiiiiired...)


It started off really innocently, all sunshine and Crayola...








Then Llama got her hands on that pirate hat.






Lan retaliated by growing a Royko.


And oh oh - Royko doesn't seem too pleased.



Fred was sunbathing on Snazz:


Before this act of aggression forced him to take action:




Beezee, meanwhile, discovers the melons conspiring in the pantry.


...and makes short work of them.


aided by the faithful Maeve:










More Lan and Beez!




Nel has it all under control.




And Fred gets his SWIFT and JUST comeuppance:



Royko continues his evil work!


And then we all ended up blurry and it's all his fault.

I made it back ok everyone. Nice uneventful flight. But damn, those are awesome pictures. I must say though -- I wish I hadn't been squinting in so much in that light.

...dear god, where has beezer's hand gone?

Fred ate it. I have a bionic one now- bought it at the Museum of Science and Industry gift shop.

yay! there he is! Sorry I didn't find you in the airport - it's took forever to get through the security line! Then I scouted for some food, chose poorly, by then it was about 2PM, so I just hunted for my gate (which took a while- it was waaaaaay down the end of a long corridor) attempted to eat my sandwich - I chose a curry chicken salad 'cos it reminded me of Smaug and it was rather icky - no flavour and all squished and frozen! I nibbled the edges, drank my soda (which was really yummy, it had proper orange juice in it) and very shortly after that we started boarding. Uneventful flight, my son missed me a lot. (aw)


I spent days with cats and didn't sneeze but once or twice - I come back home and my head explodes! And I wasn't really gone all that long, but the tomatoes grew a foot or so!

Love the facial expression:



And at first scroll, I thought that was an unripe pistachio. Nearly asplotid my head.

Onions was trying to get her to make a mean face. I suggested pretending the melon was EB, and viola!

I think I should just move my link.

Things I learnt on my Chicago adventure:

Bringing a journal is good, bringing a book is good, bringing ipod is good, bringing knitting is pants - can't get properly comfy to knit, especially on the plane.

Get a cell phone!

I may regret that Tongster knows just how gullible I am.


Chicago Slideshow

there's a lot of pictures, so I figured instead of spamming the board I'd just set up a slideshow.

(does this mollify Smaug a wee bit? Until I finish The Project at least?)

Day 1 JP and Lan and hubby and I walked from Royko's place into town, thinking to meet up with Nel and Mythos (who thought they would meet us at Royko's place).

Royko has interesting neighbours:


Yess, little Germany:


Nel lost her way on the way from the station (the bridge over there) to where we were at the Bean. Lots of time to take pictures, so I did



The Bean!




Endless fascination




And one more. I asked this guy whether I could take a picture of him and he reacted with singular disinterest in what I did and didn't do. So here is the picture: Bean with Bean and Scroogey painter!


After meeting up we walked around a lot. Nel went to wet her feet in the fountain type thing with the weird face installation


Mythos met someone tall:


Hubby and the incredible man whose mouth is always open:


Enough sightseeing:


After dinner, Nel and Royko went to pick up Maeve at the airport and we lounged around at Casa Royko, wondering what to tell the police if they came:
(this one's for Limertilly)


JP got verrry relaxed:

Astrid sighting!!

JP's FEET!

That's a seriously cute picture of Mythos and Fred.

i wanna meet astrid!!

quote:

Originally posted by ladykatza:
JP's FEET!

That's a seriously cute picture of Mythos and Fred.

I got some pictures of BeeZee's feet, maybe I should post them...

i also so completely want Royko to take me to the Huttenbar

KITTY!

Awesome pics!

*wants to doodle with crayons now*

quote:

Originally posted by supersnazz: fiend for rawk!:
I got some pictures of BeeZee's feet, maybe I should post them...

My feet?

Astrid has little geisha kitty paws! I woke up and looked over and there she was, looking over the side of her bed at me.
Then she strrretttcheddd and very daintily tippy-toed out on her tiny little giesha paws.

She is so cute

Yes. Your feet.

I like how first you see JPs feet. Then the kitty with a hunter stare. Then, nothing. As though right after the kitty picture was taken the kitty attacked the feet and the resulting minutes were too much to be posted.

I don't have any pictures of JP, since I was with him for all of what, 22 minutes? He has a great smile though! And despite his introduction, he'll always be JP.