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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Darby O'Gill and the Little people is a cherished Disney picture about Ireland, its Leprechauns, stars Sean Connery and happens to be one of Olivia's favorite films. We watched it (again) on a train from Dublin -> Galway.



If you haven't seen the film, the important parts for this post is how afraid King Brian (King of the Leprechauns) is of cats.

Now, when we travel we like to bring back a Beenie baby sized souvenir for Athena (aka Beenie), one of Olivia's cats. (Don't worry Dion fans, he gets to play with it too and sometimes gets treats or something.)

The other item to note is that Beenie likes to carry them around, treat them like kittens, and generally allow them to live long fruitful toy lives. First trip to Ireland we brought her back Lambie. Her faithful lamb friend that still enjoys the house today. After the wedding, we brought her King Brian.

Unfortunately, we didn't take any pics of King Brian BEFORE.

Now look at the poor guy after 4 months.




Be afraid, indeed.

Saturday, July 4, 2009



Enjoy the 4th, we will be grilling on a brand new Weber Grill that Erica helped arrive in time for the holiday.

I'll try to post some pictures after its done.