Too Hot for Disney?...Perhaps

We've been having a heat wave here in California...just in time for fall. Also just in time for fall is Jack Skellington's arrival at the Haunted Mansion. See, they decorate the Haunted Mansion in "Nightmare Before Christmas" theme from September through Christmas and it's kind of our thing. You probably knew that, right? We have been promising Collin we'd get there, and soon and last weekend was our first free Saturday. It was also well over 100 degrees. Ick. So, we made the trip just for the morning. Ahh, the beauty of season passes. You get to see just the thing you want and then hightail it out of there before you melt.

You also get to come home, review your photos and see that you were seated next to a psychopath on the carousel and never knew it.

We met Gracie, Kari and Ben there and it was a pretty fun time. Apparently Ben is going through a "hug" phase and no one can complain about that. How awesome is it to be hugged by a baby boy? Collin's getting him some of that. Ben, however, looks a little suspicious of Collin's methodology.

Since we were with Gracie, we did the faeries and Ben apparently likes them too because, as mentioned, he gets to hug them. How cute is that? My question is this...is it a good job or a sucky job to have to hug a bunch of other people's kids all day? They are cute and all but have you seen how dirty and gross some kids are? I mean sure, Ben is cute. Collin is cute but there's some pretty scuzzy looking kids out there. And they all want to hug you. Just a thought. Can you tell how hot it is?

It was so hot this week that Bryon and I slept on the air mattress in the living room. We have a portable a/c unit in there and I refused to sleep upstairs where it was just too darn hot. Collin thought the whole thing looked too adventurous to resist snuggling up in it when he came downstairs in the morning. A bed! In the living room! Amazing!