Either it was Noodle acting up, or Beast, or the camera, or some combination of all three. We wound up with a lot of shots like this:
After about 40 of these...we couldn't even get a good photo-session tantrum pic, that's how bad it was...we gave up and went with the one from our summer trip to New Hampshire, viz:
Pretty much a metaphor for 2008, especially the last few months. The splash at the end was a great relief.
(Photo taken at Santa's Village, Jefferson NH. Great place if you've got small kids. It's an old-school amusement park scaled for smaller children, and without any of that Disneyhassling. We like.)
