what, doesn't your family watch movies like this?

Topher and I just returned from a week in sunny, humid and hot North Carolina with my parents, brother and sister-in-law, and it was WONDERFUL!  It was pretty much the best week ever to be given three weeks before we move, and I'm so grateful we had the time (though it SPED by.)

While there, we engaged in everyday, normal family activities.  You know, we exchanged witty (and sometimes tired?!) banter over coffee on the sunporch, drank wine (and lots of it), hung on the beach (some of us...ahem, the men...attempted to fish), tried to outsmart one another in board games, and of course, fell asleep on the couch while we watched some TV.

Including a viewing of the SCARIEST MOVIE EVER (I shat you not, it terrifies me):

SIGNS
swing away, Merrill.

(Oh, M. Night, how you used to haunt my dreams.)

We insisted on protecting our minds from alien takeover as well.  As it turns out, my parents (you know, the engineer/teacher and nuclear physicist) and brother (the public health graduate) have one weakness and fear:

potential foreign bodies taking over our world and the risk of them stealing our thoughts via our brains.

So, precautions must be taken.

I'm happy to report:

all brains remain in their prior cavities, safe and sound.