We went to the Legoland Discovery Center on Saturday since the Little Guy will be 8 years old tomorrow and The Big Girl will be 18! years old on Wednesday. Yep, he was born the day before his big sister’s 10th birthday.

The Legoland Discovery Center in Schaumburg, Illinois is one of three in the world, the only one in the United States. It’s also America’s only indoor Legoland.

Legoland Discovery Center Entrance

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My cousin is in this group (in the yellow shirt, playing guitar). Good music.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Written by Lt-Colonel John McRae (1915)

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The Christmas tree lots are being set up. The red wooden racks are up and ready for a tree delivery in the Super KMart parking lot. Yesterday I went to Walmart for Kung Fu Panda. Walmart was packed. I also went to JoAnn Fabrics to get a few things and it was packed too. Lots of stuff is on sale especially Halloween leftovers, but Christmas stuff is on sale too.

We did a lot of movie watching this week, Get Smart, The Forbidden Kingdom, Incredible Hulk, and The Love Guru Mariska Hargitay…

The CGI Hulk was incredible, his face was so expressive.

We also watched The Land That Time Forgot on one of the Encore channels. 1975. Very visible strings/wires on the pterydactyl that made off with the Neanderthal. Very obvious models and puppet monsters. Fun to watch with an almost 8-year-old who doesn’t really know those crappy special effects.

Hubby went to the polling place at 6:20 this morning and he was number 60 in our precinct. I went about 11:50 am no lines, no problems, although The Little Guy was disappointed that they didn’t have a sample ballot that he could fill out while I was filling out the real ballot. There was someone electioneering in the parking lot for the democrats, but then he saw my McCain/Palin lipstick kiss button and said I could just throw the card he gave me away…

No exit polling.

Proud to Vote

Tomorrow is Election Day. Now that the end is in sight here are some polls.

The poll above was supposed to include an option for “I’ve early/absentee voted”. Sorry about that.

We had a little snow today. Freeze warning tonight.

We had to go purchase a new TV today too. About a week ago, suddenly the TV (a 7-year-old, 42 inch Sony rear projection set) went very red. The reset button and adjusting the set worked only so far. Then today, it went really red and there was no adjusting it at all. Here’s a picture of Megyn Kelly all pinkerized… Poor Megyn. I mean, I know it’s Breast Cancer Awareness month, but this just goes too far…

Poor Pink Megyn

Please contribute to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. My sister’s mother-in-law died as a result of her breast cancer last October.

So we went to Circuit City and purchased a 47 inch LG HD LCD to replace it. It’s very nice.

Trick-or-treating started off very slow yesterday. The hours for trick-or-treating were 1 - 5 pm. We didn’t see our first trick-or-treater until 1:52 pm. And it wasn’t one trick-or-treater, it was a crowd of about 15.

Lots of princesses and Batmen. Several werewolves with good masks. A very large gorilla showed up with two tiny princesses.

It was pretty steady until about 3:30 and it dropped off drastically with a slight flurry of trick-or-treaters around 4:40.

It was sunny, only about 50°F and quite windy bringing that temperature lower with wind chill. That may explain the lower turnout for trick-or-treating this year. For the past few years it’s been warmer - sixties - and sunny and we had steady trick-or-treaters during the full four hours.

We had a busy weekend including spending yesterday after church at Six Flags. It was a very nice day for Six Flags, low to mid 60’s, sunny, not too breezy. Fright Fest is a lot of fun and even the regular characters get in costume (Daffy Duck was a pirate, Pepe Le Pew was a jack-0-lantern, Wile E. Coyote was dressed as a wizard…)

hmmm - I wonder if those three are registered to vote here in Lake County, IL? They live here after all… Our County Clerk, Willard Helander (A Woman Named Willard) has contacted the Lake County Sheriff’s office, State Attorney General, Lisa Madigan(D), the US Attorney, and the FBI regarding problematic voter registrations.

A deceased pet goldfish named Princess was one of those registered. many of the troublesome registrations were hand delivered by a man from Chicago. His name has been given to law enforcement. Many of the registrations had Chicago addresses with Lake County zip codes.

Ms. Helander says that Acorn doesn’t seem to be involved in this case, many of the troublesome registrations were hand delivered by a man from Chicago. His name has been given to law enforcement. Many of the registrations had Chicago addresses with Lake County zip codes.

Most of the registrations were from the 10th Congressional District where Democrat Dan Seals is challenging Republican incumbent Mark Kirk.
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I still don’t know why the three young men were carrying it up the street, but I found it and didn’t imagine it after all.

It was at the side of a house down the street and across the cross street. A house where the kids go to jump on the trampoline…

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