Well, first we gave her two presents early: her camera, and the chicken I made for her.
For a week and a half I had teased her about the colour this chicken was going to be...and she chose not to wait until that night to get it, but to get it before we left.
I kept telling her while I was making it that it was all sorts of horrible colours - lime green with rust orange feet, for example.
Then I remembered that when I went through my yarn, I had had a skein of a horrible colour that looked just like dried vomit.
So I told her I was making it out of that. She grimaced.
The story kept growing as the week went on, until it was a three-foot tall vomit coloured chicken with a huge hole in one side (where I miscounted stitches, of course), one eye missing, with one leg twice as long as the other.
I used a big box to put it in for her to open...and she was very relieved to open it and find a pink chicken.
However, he ended up being named Strawberry Vomit...either Berry or Vomit for short, of course. This is a picture of him and the other chickens I've made.
I'm taking a break from chickens for a while. Next I'm going to make either a turtle, an armadillo, a flamingo, or an otter, I think.
Saw some of the stupidest driving on our trip, though. At one point there was an accident that locked up most of the road, and people were driving over the grass to get onto the frontage road. ><
Impatient people driving idiotically.
We had people cut us off without looking, changing lanes, running reds...all sorts of stuff.
The one who wins the "Most Likely To Cause An Accident" prize, however, was the motorcyclist who drove up between our car and the car beside us at a high speed. Seriously. He drove on the dividing line and just about surprised my mom off the road. He was driving like you see in the movies, all reckless like. Won't be surprised when he gets in an accident.
