Family Insanity

Everyone is home except for Cecily and Thor. We left them in Montana. On purpose. 

(They're staying with Grandpa and Grandma Peterson for a few more weeks until Grandpa and Grandma Davis pass through there and bring them back home.) 

I always hear people complain about how rotten long car trips are, but ours always turn out to be quite interesting! With so many comedians in the family, car rides are never boring. A small sampling of what was going on in the ~38 hours of driving:

Knut: (talking about a picture on an advertisement) It was either a flame thrower, a bazooka, or a big thing of mosquito repellent.

Grandpa (over the walkie-talkie): I saw a sign that says one mile!
Papa: your reading skills are improving!

Grandpa: *says something unintelligible over the walkie-talkie*
Knut: What was that? We did not hear you because we were carrying on a ginormously stimulating conversation. What did you say?
Grandpa: I keep seeing arrows; there must be Indians around!
Knut: *lets out war whoop*

Knut: We didn’t hear you because we were carrying on a ginormously stimulating, morale-raising and character-building conversation.

Knut: Sylvia and I were having a staring contest and I said, “Look into my eyes and you will meet oblivion! Then I will drag you to my hole and have a little feast… of CHOCOLATE!!! … am I squishing something?

Knut: SQUIRREL!!!!!!
Sylvia: That’s Rosemary!!!!
Knut: I'm not looking at Rosemary! I'm staring way out there at that squirrel that is hopping up and down on a tree branch chewing on a nut.

Knut: It’s mostly just three things: comedy and insanity.

Knut: Hey Pop, wouldn’t it be neat to go sledding off a cliff in a canoe??

Papa: …feed the little chipmunk-squirrel-thingies... Squunks…

Rosemary: Goodbye; don’t call back!

Gloria (singing): Oh, you can’t get to heaven on a roll of duct tape! ‘Cause there’s no such thing as flying duct tape! Oh, you can’t get to heaven on a roll of duct tape, ‘cause there’s no such thing as flying duct tape!

Rosemary *imitating Gloria*: Oh, you can’t get to heaven, ha ha ha!

Other bits of insanity not from the car trip:

Grandma: So it’s 1 to 1 now! We’ve won one game, and Sylvia’s won one game.
Mom: And I've lost all three!

Knut: Pop, where are the land mines? I couldn’t find any.
Papa: Oh, they’re in the shop on the third shelf next to the grenades and the bazookas.

Thor: Oh, they won’t damage anything; just make his car fly…


(While feeding chipmunks...)

Papa: Here, Bjorn, you can feed me!
Cecily: But you’re not tiny and cute!