t h e . r i d i c u l o u s . p a n d a

before the next weekend catches up and smacks the last one in the dupa, i must post. there is an ice cream sandwich followed by a nap waiting as my reward for successfully completing this small task.

a five minute bike ride from our house on saturday morning was a land full of free blowup bouncy castles, veggie burgers, poms poms and carnival games. good lord, i do love a christian college that gives back to the community. all that fun that silas had almost made up for the ten grand i spent on grad school at said college.

seems like he got the hang of the bouncy castle thing pretty damn quick.

or maybe he'll fancy himself a baller.

bouncy train. i was worried he might get freaked out in the tunnels and hallways with kids barreling from every direction. but then once sam told me to chill out because silas was more than okay, i realized that he might not ever come out because he was just so delighted. oh, but he still looked so little to me in there.

then we took a five minute bike ride in the other direction from our apartment and found ourselves in a park district pumpkin patch. where ten bucks can get you:

a bunch of pumpkins to sit with,

some permanent markers and cray-pas to decorate your chosen one,

a pig to pet,

a donkey to pal around with,

a ghost painted on your cheek by a junior high kid with a very thin mustache,

and a pony to ride!! what a deal!

(special note to bkqp: silas chose the pony named blaze. respect.)

and because jon bon jovi says "we'll sleep when we're dead," weren't done yet. dinner was big plans for a pizza picnic in another park.

but the park was deemed to mosquito-y, silas actually yelled "ow! bug bite!" so we jumped on the montrose bus with our giant pizza and messed with the lady sitting to the right of the picture who kept saying into her cell phone, "i'm so hungry. i'm so hungry."

so there you go.