My Parents (and my brother too) Visit

The past 4 days have been a whirlwind. We have done a lot of fun things and some things we definitely didn't plan on. Lets start with what we didn't plan on. We didn't plan on buying a car. The man took our '99 Jeep Grand Cherokee into the dealership to have some work done before we shipped it to England. When the mechanic called and said that there were over $2500 worth or repairs that needed to be done in order to be able to ship it. Ummmm yeah, not so much down with that. I told my husband to tell them to stop all work and we would be there to pick it up. We decided to go ahead and bite the bullet and trade in the Jeep on another car. Well the other car we ended up trading the Jeep Grand Cherokee in for was a Jeep Compass. I love my new car. It is so shiny. Oh and orange. Also very pretty.

We also didn't really "plan" to go to the zoo. It was more like "Hey what are we doing tomorrow? Oh nothing, lets go to the zoo." So we did. It was great. The weather was perfect and all the animals were out. My kids also kept complaining to a minimum. It helped that they had their own personal shuttle.

(The PaPa-mobile)

Lets see what kind of animals we encountered..

Lions
Tigers
And...well there were no bears...but this Orangutan apparently wanted to eat LaLa's head.

Now for the planned events...We did Halloween with the girls. LaLa was a princess (of course) and KiKi was a cat. They were entirely too cute. I don't think my parents have seen a crazy Halloween like we have hear on base in a long time. There must have been over 500 kids trick or treating just in my section of base housing. I had bought 3 HUGE bags of candy and they were gone in 45 min. My brother called my mom in a panic and declaired that he was out of candy and wanted to know what he should do next. Umm go inside and turn off the lights goofus.

Princess LaLa and KiKi Kitty

I guess that is all that really happened that was extremely noteworthy. Did I mention that my brother apparently takes facial hair advise from dead Russian Communist leaders?

Vladimir Lenin
My Brother...who I have dubbed Andy Leninovitch