BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02084 Allison has been crocheting a whale for Andy for a while now. She has had to do the underside several times because it just wasn’t getting quite right. Tonight she completed her work. This took several weeks of work each night to complete.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02083 On the second day of the Granite State Comicon we hung out at our hotel for the morning because the show did not start until 10am. Luckily we stayed at a place that included breakfast so we had some stuff to enjoy before heading to the con. Today we did a coordinated cosplay. I was Peter B. Parker and Eva was a teenage Mayday Parker. She spent hours styling her wig and Allison spent hours creating her hat. I put together a costume with sweats, a pink robe, spider man shirt and two different shoes. I sort of combined the Peter Parker outfits from the two Spiderverse movies. I did run into a few other people who were wearing the same sort of things. They recognized my costume first. I actually got a few people who recognized my costume yesterday, too. One little boy even stopped us to get our photo. The first thing we did was go to the exhibit hall and get our photos taken by Nerd Caliber again. I liked yesterday’s photos of me much better. I am not sure I liked th...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02082 today Eva and I drove up to New Hampshire for the Granite State Comicon. This has been our yearly adventure now for several years. Eva loves to do cosplay and she has a group of friends there that she catches up with each year. I am a big nerd and love pop culture and fun stuff like this so I love to go. also, the show was created by some college friends of mine and I enjoy seeing them every year. This year we were both in cosplay each day. Day one we did separate things. I was Bobby Singer from the show Supernatural and Eva was Ray from one of the SMPs that she watches. We made sure that we went to Nerd Caliber and got our photos taken there. We do this every year and they always take such great photos. This was good because I hardly took any photos this year. this was Eva getting her photo taken. Below is the photo that was taken. Photo by Nerd Caliber . I also had my photo taken. I like how this one came out. Photo by Nerd Caliber . We walked around the show f...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02081 Tonight we went to the movies as a family. We went to see the new Transformers One more. This is the first animated Transformers movie in 26 years. It was a great movie and I hope it is the start of more to come. The movie takes place entirely on the planet of Cybertron. It is the story of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went from best friends, like brothers, to bitter enemies. The story was very well done and wove in 40 years of lore. I do hope that the next movie also takes place on Cybertron but then ends with the fall of Cybertron and the Autobots and Decepticons crash landing on Earth. That would be great and then the third movie would take place on Earth with the intent for the Transformers to return to their homeworld. Everyone enjoyed the movie and t was great to spend some time together before Eva and I headed off to Granite State Comicon for the weekend.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02080 We go through soft butter like crazy in this house. It is a favorite of everyone for everything like muffins, bread and corn on the cob. When I took it out for dinner tonight it seems very, very light. That is because someone put it back empty. Luckily we buy them two or three at a time so we were good to go. Yesterday I decided that I was done with rock climbing. It just wasn’t for me. I gave it 3 solid goes but I just wasn’t into it. We should be able to use the remaining days that I bought to let Andy go in between class sessions.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02079 I was in the store today and I noticed that Rold Gold has some flavored pretzel twists. This is most likely to compete with Dots pretzels. I like Dots but they are overpriced for sure. For now the Rold Gold ones are somewhat reasonably priced. Since hey are from Frito Lay they have a Cool Ranch flavor as well. I did not pick that one up but might in the future.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02078 After dropping andy off at school I decided to drive over to North Attleboro and walk around WWI Memorial park. I had been getting over a blister on my foot and I was taking it slow. I went there as a change of scenery. I decided that I would start listening to the entire Nate Temple series once again. This is my 3rd time through and this time I would go back to chronological order of the books and different series. The last time I went through all the books I finished right as new books got published. I know there are three int he works so I hope that syncs up again.