
A group of Hooters girls walked by while we were eating, posing for pictures and giving out "I ♥ Hooters" stickers, but I was enjoying my pizza too much to get up and ask them to pose for a photo with Laurel. (That would have been awfully silly, anyway.) Laurel demolished pizza and asked for ice cream, so we split a hot caramel sundae from Marble Slab Creamery while Vogon went off in search of the Truluck's booth for a mixed drink served in a coconut cup after we saw several people go by with them.
While Vogon was on his coconut-acquisition trip, Laurel kept staring at inflatable prizes from the midway games we saw folks carrying. I wasn't up for spending much time on the midway, so when we spotted the Children's Miracle Network booth decorated with inflatable wild animals, we went over and asked if we could buy one of them. Laurel picked out a zebra and informed me its name was Duck.

After that, I wanted to sit, so Laurel and I settled down on some grass between the sunglasses vendor's booth and the artist demos while Vogon went for a refill of his coconut cup. We played with her thirsty zebra, hung out, and listened to Vertical Horizon. Somewhere in there I also bought her a pair of sunglasses since she's outgrown her current pair and we found a silver and orange (her latest favorite color) pair that fit her with a little room to grow.


The sun was just low enough that my sunglasses were too dark, so we stopped by the midway while I switched glasses. I saw a man and a little boy that looked familiar, but I said to Vogon that if it was

He's been under the weather since, but he's getting better.... and I've got a loverly bunch of coconut cups (deedle-ee dee) drip-drying on the counter and photos you can chuckle over: 2005/05/14: Taste Addison. Pardon the dust while I finish captioning them tonight.