A Mousing We Will Go

the other day, edward was looking at a chocolate bar that was tucked in a basket on our counter and noticed that the corner was missing. naturally, he assumed that i was being lazy and had just broken it off without wrapping it back up properly. but when he pulled out the candy bar, he was surprised to find another corner missing from the bottom. upon closer examination, it was pretty clear that some small creature (not me) had been helping itself to the candy.

edward put the candy bar in a plastic bag, set it back on the counter, and went to bed. the next morning, the bag was on the floor sticking out halfway from under the dishwasher. when he pulled it out, he discovered that the plastic bag had been chewed through, along with another half of the candy bar.

at this point, we knew it was a rodent. edward insisted that it must be mouse, because it could wedge itself into the basket to eat the bottom of the candy bar. i felt it was a rat. anyway, we set up this trap and taped it. unfortunately, the glue traps were too small because it was a RAT (not a mouse), and it was able to chew itself free. still, a pretty interesting video.

chicken and waffles

we just had a pretty awesome dinner tonight. we flew down to burbank this afternoon, checked into our hotel (or ho-tay-yole, as griffin calls it), and then headed over to roscoe's house of chicken and waffles for dinner. we'd never been, but i had read about it online and most recently had our food friend, peisun, give it a ringing endorsement. man oh man, was that a fantastic meal of fried chicken, waffles, fried giblets, biscuits & gravy, grits, and sweet tea! it was amazing. the chicken was juicy and flavorful, the skin was crispy and tasty, and the waffles were just delish! the kids loved it too. i mean, how cool a meal is it for kids -- chicken and waffles for dinner!

ok, enough raving about the dinner. after dinner, we went to universal citywalk, where they were playing mamma mia on a big screen. ally was thrilled, and so we sat under the stars (and neon) and watched half of the movie. then we met this really nice balloon guy who made these cool bumblebees and flowers.

the robot and the cupcake

Ever since Griffin noticed the giant robot and cupcake outside the Android team's office, he and Ally always look for it when we are driving around the Google campus. So Edward took them to check it out, and they were pretty fascinated by them. The top picture totally looks like a Hansel and Gretel moment!