RedBox Bait and Switch

This week, I made a quick trip to the RedBox kiosk to find a DVD for the girls and ended up with the strangest, so-bad-it's-just-bad movies, Doggie B.

I'll be honest, I didn't read the RedBox ad description closely.  I saw the dogs dressed as DJ's and assumed it was another talking dogs movie, with the dogs playing rappers. The storyline I made up in my head was much better than the reality.

There were more odd elements than I can name, but I'll try to share a few. There was a veterinarian assistant with a bad Jamaican accent that drove a car covered with markers, cheese curl sculptures, wigs that looked like the rejects from Capitol City scenes on Hunger Games, doggie steroids that can turn humans into dogs, a former member of the Go-Go's, and it goes on and on...

In case you want to check it out yourself, here a link to the trailer: 

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/doggieb/

Souvenirs

I had to travel this week for work and picked up a couple of things for the kids at the airport gift shop. Instead of buying a keychain from a locale they didn't visit (and, for that matter, I didn't visit either), I grabbed these tiny chocolate bars at the checkout.

The potato chip chocolate bars were a hit, the bacon not so much.  Since the bacon didn't get eaten completely, I was able to administer my own taste test.  I'd have to agree that it wasn't something I would buy again - it did have a smoky, salty flavor reminiscent of bacon, but it had a weird not too savory aftertaste.

The kids seemed pleased, though, and I was happy to come up with a somewhat novel surprise for them from my trip.

Tooth or Consequences

Topic not included in our copy of the Parenting Handbook:  What to do when a spend-the-nighter loses a tooth at your house.