I can now reveal what it is that's had me so busy that I couldn't keep up with the Plopsaland De Panne trip report or the rest of our European vacation, never mind turning my whole blog over to the late Robert Benchley, who'd be hard-pressed to get much later still.
For our anniversary ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger set off on a road trip, a big amusement park trip that took us to ... let me count this ... eight parks (not all amusement parks) in eight days, with a lot of driving involved. We got in at after 1 am last night, to the lingering smoke fumes of the fireworks attack on the Eastside, and I slept in until, uh, what time is it right this minute? Not quite that but pretty close to it.
Along the way we celebrated our anniversary, had some disappointments, met a relative, learned something mildly surprising about other relatives, and did the both of us reach notable numbers in our roller-coaster-riding histories? You'll see just as soon as I get out of Belgium, an event I hope to be done this week. But that's what we've been up to and is why I didn't have time to keep writing the past week.
I bring you now the final pictures from the Fairy Ball. You get to guess what's coming up next on the photo roll.
Boxes of the LED-stick glowing stuff they had set up.
The glowing box looks even better with blurry half-visible figures behind. Not snark; I like how it adds life to the scene.
Near the end of the night. Finally coaxed bunnyhugger into sitting on the moon throne!
She looks like a natural here.
Looking back out over the BMX grounds and the mushrooms and all.
And hey, transformation hoops just left tossed casually around! Those are dangerous!
Trivia: The Detroit Free Press of 7 August 1860 published an extremely detailed box score of the first defeat suffered by the Detroit Base Ball Club. It had a table listing outs and runs for each batter; another table breaking down the outs per batter into five categories; a third table listing the number and type of outs recorded by each fielder; and a fourth table with each inning's total of pitches throw by the pitcher, foul balls hit, and passed balls, and additional notes were included for details that did not fit on the table, including the one batter who struck out. The only statistic of apparent note not kept was the number of base hits. Source: A Game of Inches: The Story Behind The Innovations That Shaped Baseball, Peter Morris.
Currently Reading: Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator, Keith Houston.
