My Labor Day Adventures

Well, I now have some pictures sent to me by the Die-Hard Equestrian, who was kind enough to share the fruits of her labor. So now I can share with you my fun day yesterday! We met her, her parents (Die Steppdecken des Quilter und Die Schreiben von Schreiber), and her little siblings who don't have blogs yet :), at the National Air Show, which is an annual event at Burke Lakefront Airport over Labor Day Weekend. Actually, we sat in the parking lot across the street from the airport, from which we still had a fine view of the airplanes in the sky, although we were woefully ill-prepared with our tailgating supplies. The highlight, of course, was the awe-inspiring precision of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. Here's some pics.



After hanging out for a while waiting for the majority of the crowd to leave the Airshow, we had dinner at Eat 'N' Park with the von Trapp Terrors. :P If the Die-Hard Equestrian had gotten into the picture, she coulda been Liesl, but she preferred to be on the other side of the camera. Oh well. "We hate to go, and miss this pretty si-ight!"

One advantage of having so many kids along, they got their own booth, and the adults (with the exception of Little Trouble and Liesl) had their own booth! Woo hoo! The kids actually behaved rather well, for five enthusiastic young ones between the ages of eleven and four.

And since Heather has asked about the origin of my blog name, it's based on an online quiz which sadly is no longer available. I'd love to see how some of you turned out! However, you can read about it in this post and following comments at baldilock's place. Here's a summary of me: You are an SEDF--Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into improving your intellect, rather than destroying the weak and unsuspecting.

Your friends may find you remote and a hard nut to crack. Few of your peers know you very well--even those you have known a long time--because you have expert control of the face you put forth to the world. You prefer to observe, calculate, discern and decide. Your decisions are final, and your desire to be right is impenetrable.

You are not to be messed with. You may explode.
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Since the above is all too accurate, I started calling myself the Evil Genius, and thus this blog! Don't you feel better now that you know?