From the Youngest Daughter :)
WARNING: Long post ahead!
We just got back from a short vacation. Aaannd I decided that while traveling I would take pics of the cool things I saw! I was hoping for a ten foot tall inflatable rubber ducky (believe it or not, I have seen one of those before!) or maybe a car pulling a trailer with a hot tub on it (which I have also seen.) Or maybe an Uncle Sam on those really tall stilts walking down the highway (OK, I have never seen that one. I wish though. :)
I didn't get pictures of any of those things, but I did find some pretty crazy stuff. :) So here we go! The first kinda crazy thing I saw was a teenager driving this pretty zany car.
Then I saw this sign thingy. Doesn't it look like the head of a grasshopper!?
In our hotel we found this sign:
Because obviously I'm gonna want to buy an out-dated alarm clock that about a million different people have used. Duh.
How's this for a cool roof? (Happy 4
th of July, BTW!)
We went out to eat at a taco place. The burritos are huge and they're wrapped up in tin foil. Rather difficult to eat, unless you know the
proper procedure:
The burrito place had a kind of
beachy theme. They had a lot of funny decor! Including a surf board with a shark chomp taken out of it. And this kinda crazy sign:
Then we saw this cool place with a grass roof! :)
Ever seen a sign that said
this before?
Check out this crazy boat! [note: This was parked in front of a house that had a crazy bright yellow, overly
polished sports car in the garage.
Hmmmm. Rich much?] Just look at that engine!
Oooh, and look at this crazy house! It would drive me crazy living there, but it was pretty awesome to drive past. :) On your right you see about a million garden gnomes, and on your left you see an eclectic collection of roosters and
American flags.
Niiiicce.
And just when you think you'll never see another house like it, you drive past this baby. It looked better in person, believe me.
Note: if I saw a teenage girl sitting in a car full of pool noodles and taking picture of my house, I would be creeeeped.
Check out the zany owls in the tree!
I think someone had a few too many campers/boats on hand. So they took their pop-up camper, sliced off one of the beds and stuck it on the back of their pontoon. Then they took their RV chopped out the center and pasted it on too. And there you have it. I call it the pop-up
ponRV.
Wooof. Look at that junk heap!
And then I saw this cool car. I just *had* to
photoshop it to make the photo look vintage. :)
Ever seen this sign before? No? I didn't think so. I
believe it's warning people not to play on teeter-totters while driving. Yeah. That must be it.
Look at this cool pic! I stuck the camera up against one of those binocular thingies that are on stands on observation decks. Don't know what they're called. :-/ Anyway, I like the way the picture looks. :)
We saw a herd of black cows. With one lonely white one. :)
And then we saw a herd of white cows with one lonely brown one! (OK, there were actually two brown ones, but hey. Close enough, right?)
It took me forever to get the picture above. The white cows kept hiding the brown ones. :(
They all came up to the fence and stared at me like I was a martian.
I love their earrings! And man, they even had tattoos in the form of brands! Crazy cows.
All she needs is a nose ring and a red
Mohawk.
Perfect.
And while we're on the subject of cows, check out this monster! Her name is Sue. No joke. That's me hugging her foot for scale. :)
This was my
view while hugging her:
Aaand that about sums up our crazy sightings. We did s
ee some hitch-hikers walking on the
highway (
tisk,
tisk) but of course the camera wouldn't cooperate at that moment. :-/
Anyways, here's one last cool pic for ya!
I love this lake. It's so beautiful. :)
What crazy stuff have you seen?
Dr. Seuss books in great condition! For 49 cents each. To be honest, this teenager is rather jealous. :) I love Dr. Seuss's weird artwork and funny writing.
And more childrens books! Mom claims they are for future grandchildren. But I think she just likes them herself. :)
Oldest Daughters best finds:
And I'm not very happy about this spectacular 50 cent find. Why? Because she found it before I did! :(
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. (Don't you just love his pen name??)
And finally the best of my finds!
This shelf for $1.00. It was ugly brown with all kinds of scratches, but once I spray painted it, it looks almost brand new!
A beautiful copy of Jane Eyre. I've never read it, and have no idea if I'll like it, but hey. When a book's that pretty, you just can't pass it up! 
This cool little lamp. Won't it look sweet once I find a good shade for it?
And lastly one of my favorite finds, a cute messenger bag! It was five bucks, which seemed outrageously expensive compared to all our other things. But ya know, I think it's OK to "splurge" once in a while. :)
