BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02809 Yesterday at The Pretzel Factory we got the new pizza prep station. This means that we can now list pizza on our menu and people can order them. So I now make pizzas as well as pretzels. The one above is what I made today. Not too bad, I think.

Photo-A-Day #02808 When we were at Granite State Comicon I found a game for Andy called Kobolds Ate My Baby. It is a tabletop RPG game that I think Andy would love. The thing that caught my eye was this little enamel pin that is a Kobold holding a giant pretzel. The game had a tag line of being a beer and pretzels game.

Photo-A-Day #02807 In addition to the Transformers stickers that I got at Granite State Comicon there were also a couple of Dungeon Crawler Carl stickers. Bun Leung is one of the only people I saw making original art pieces of the characters. so I had to pick them up. I recently started the series over again and just finished the first book. I look forward to reading a lot more.

Photo-A-Day #02806 While at Granite State Comicon I visited one of my favorite artists, Bun Leung. I have bought a ton of his art over the years in the form of stickers and a couple of mini prints. This year he has a whole bunch of new stickers including some Transformers ones. I didn't get them all just a couple of Transformers like Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock and Soundwave. I like the new designs that he put out this year. Tonight I went to see Transformers The Movie at the movie theater. It is still a great movie and it still holds up as far as story and animation. The soundtrack is pretty great, too. There was a 12 minute short at the end which was Peter Cullen's last work as Prime. It was okay, I don't think it was that great but it was interesting. I enjoyed the tribute to him at the beginning of the movie more.

Photo-A-Day #02805 Today was the last day of the convention. Eva went as Pony Boy from The Outsiders. They even made the shirt that Ponyboy wears in the movie. I was again Bobby Singer from Supernatural. I got a new verst and flannel for this year. Was as recognized as I was in past years but that is okay. I had kept my glasses on. We started our morning by going to The Bookery for breakfast. They have a small cafe inside. In the alley before the bookstore there is a bunch of cat themed murals. This is the cat alley. We could have gone over here yesterday and gotten hot dogs from a small place in this alley. Our first stop was the convention center. There are always a few vendors there and I was hoping at an author that I had met last year would be there again this year but they were not. I did get to play the new Transformers pin ball machine. That is a really nice machine. When we were done in the arena we went back to the hotel and went to the main vendor floor. There I saw a person...

Photo-A-Day #02804 Today was the first day for us to experience the Granite State Comicon 2026. This is an event that Eva and I do every year and it has become our tradition. This year was extra special because it was the first time I had been able to see Eva since they headed to college. We started our morning 0out be going to Mokapot for some breakfast sandwiches and beverages. When we got back to the hotel it was time to get into our costumes. I was a character from the Dungeon Crawler Carl books, Big Tina. Big Tina is a t-rex that wants to put on a recital because Big Tina is actually a bear cub child that was turned into a dinosaur. I put my costume together from a mishmash of stuff from Amazon. Eva sewed the tiara on for me. This year Eva has been excited about The Lost Boys (both movie and musical). Eva's character is Star from the Lost boys movie. That is the version that Eva based the costume on. Star is also in the musical and maybe Eva will do that character int he futur...