Eric Herman - Travelblogue: 2008 Spring/Summer Tour

We spent some time enjoying the KOA today, which we pretty much had to ourselves since everyone cleared out after the weekend. We played on the playground and made a couple of trips to the petting farm area, where we petted some donkeys and goats. Evee touched a cow's nose and it was slimy. It was a good thing we had some of the nice Clean Well hand sanitizer that Rebecca from the Interactive Learning Theater gave us samples of yesterday. It's cool stuff and doesn't have any alcohol like Germ-X and other types do, so it's very kid friendly and smells really good.

We drove out to Petaluma proper to do some errands and stopped at a bank, a post office, another bank, a fruit stand and Goodwill, where the girls spent some of the recent money they've earned to buy a toy each. Driving up to the fruit stand we pulled in front of a neighboring house to park and I saw a guy come out and yell "Hey!" After the thing the other night with the lady knocking on the door and hearing some stories from various people about parking spaces in the Bay area being hotly defended, I assumed he was gesturing for me to get out of there, so I moved over to a space that became available closer to the fruit stand. I noticed in the side view mirror that he was still walking towards us and yelling, "Hey!" It turned out that he just really loved the cartoon wrap on the bus and wanted to talk about graphic work that he does and stuff like that.

Then we had dinner at Applebee's, where Evee ate everything on her plate and everything she could get her hands on from the rest of our plates. She also ate all of her lunch earlier and half of Mommy's tuna sandwich. Wow! Growth spurt, maybe?

We came back to the KOA and I put the girls to bed, reading The Cat in the Hat Comes Back for their bedtime story. (spoiler alert) As sequels go, it's pretty solid and comparable in quality to the original, but the idea of all of those cats residing inside each of the other's hats really stretches the bounds of plausibility, at least as depicted in the illustrations.

I've got to give a plug here for our good friend and colleague, Mr. Billy, who just announced preorders for his next CD, Six Leg Songs. In addition to including a lot of fun tunes, the CD also sports a cover with some artwork by my very own Roseann.