Galactic Ice Cream

So recently we put this little tracker on the blog - just for fun to see where everyone is coming from to see this. Here are some results, which lead me to wonder how on earth you wind up on this blog all the way from Istanbul (not Constantinople), or Liverpool, or Taipei, or Stockholm, or Cape Town. Talk about variety! Just think, everyone in the world can come and see this site, and enjoy embarrassing pictures just like this!

Sadly, visitors to the site today could be disappointed: it was a slightly dull day. First of all, the weather - though warmer - was wet. And grey. Translation: not nice weather for going outdoors.

So we stayed indoors for the most part. We went to ballet, of course, in the evening. This was the last class of the session for Madison, though the next session starts in just a few short weeks (March 1st). Madison loves to go to ballet, of course. It has been such a small class, so it has been such an intimate environment for learning. Madison has enjoyed it very much, and it is so cute to see the three little ballerinas marching into to class each week. Peeking through the window outside the classroom, it's precious to watch her and her classmates and teacher do their little dances and routines.

With piano practice, Madison has been earning Mom Bucks left and right, and her practice is paying off: she's getting much better! And she's also wanting to play games more and more. Of course, we do puzzles a lot. In fact, we got some new ones to do this past week for Valentine's Day. But the latest obsession is Lego Star Wars - the Clone Wars game. This is a surprisingly fun game, one that Madison is really getting into. What fun to be Count Dooku riding around in an ice cream truck that plays music as it runs over battle droids.

This would make Willrow Hood very proud.

There are plenty of obscure characters in the Star Wars universe, but Willrow Hood may take the cake. Or the ice cream, as pictured above. This is a screen capture from the movie "The Empire Strikes Back." He's an extra, seen very briefly escaping Cloud City shortly after Lando Calrissian announces the Empire is taking over the gas mining facility. What is that he's carrying? It appears to be an ice cream maker. By gum, the Empire may be getting the planet, but they sure aren't getting my ice cream maker! Writers came in to explain that this was in fact not an ice cream maker that he's holding on to, but some sort of main computer memory core that he was going to dispose of. But we know the truth: he's really the Ice Cream Maker Guy.

Apparently ice cream is an important thing in the Star Wars universe. Today, Madison got to experience that a little first-hand, even with some of the cut-scenes in between gameplay:

All this talk of ice cream has made us a little hungry! It's time for some ice cream!

"Freeze, you rebel scum." - Colonel Dyer