Vacation Recap, Part 2

Jack O' Lanterns!

Tuesday we carved pumpkins and watched some scary movies. Good, er, gross, slimy fun. I forgot how messy cleaning out pumpkins is. Seems a bit barbaric too, if you ask me. :) Look at Julia's pumpkin (the one on the far right), she's such a show off. However she did introduce us to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is freakin' hilarious, so I can't gripe about her superior pumpkin carving skills. If you haven't seen this show it's worth checking out.

Wednesday I was supposed to drive us to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. First I stopped for gas, and after we had gotten back on the road somebody pointed out I had left the fuel door thingy open. I can say with a reasonable amount of surity that I have never done before. When I stopped to close it I realized that I had also not put the gas cap on. Consequently, it was now lost. I have most definitely never done that before. That kind of thing is totally unlike me. I blame being sick for being off my game. Speaking of being sick, I ended up sharing my germs and getting Julia and Mark sick too. Yay, colds for everybody!

Where was I? Oh, yeah, Wednesday. I didn't end up driving because my car was overheating again! Thursday I took it in and finally got everything sorted out *fingers crossed*. Seems the fan wasn't running therefore the engine wasn't staying cool. Now I have a sweet switch in my dash so I can manually turn it on (since I wasn't willing to fork over $600+ for a new computer for the car).

Let's see, what else did we do...

...Bowling...

...Roller Coasters and haunted houses at Cedar Point...

Which I have to say was the most crowded it has ever been when I have been there. It was just a giant mass of people shuffling from one end of the park to the other. We did get to ride some of my favorite coasters though. The haunted house was predictably lame, except for this tunnel you walked through that had lights spinning around it. Yeah, I pretty much fell over into the railing. My brain was was trying to tell my body that the room wasn't spinning, but
my damn eyes were duped by the illusion of spinning christmas lights. Consequently I had to pull myself along the railing to get to the doorway, which seemed to be twisting while standing still. The crazy tunnel of dizziness made all the cheesy fake vampires well worth it.

...and Tetris.

Which I kind of Ruled.

Mark was nice enough to bring me a sampling of Australian coins, since I collect coins this made my nerdy little heart happy. (and a koala, because who doesn't love those furry little buggers? They're so cute :).

Well, I've been working on this for a couple days, so I guess I'll wrap it up now. If I think of anything else from vacation that might be blogworthy you'll be the first to know.