Fathers day

Fathers day was fun and exciting. I let Ella wake Joe up really early- so he knew that she was wishing him a happy day! She got him a Mario cart game for his nintendo 64- she even wrapped it in a diaper herself.
We started the day with a tour of Forest Lawn- its a historic cemetery downtown.

We saw a lot of cool things -some of the weird stuff people do when they die.

That marker was the best one- it says "I told you I was sick"

Ella had fun too- she was "mostly" good. She rode in her buggy up and down all the hills in the humid heat.

Some of the sculptures were really beautiful - Joe got in all of his artsy shots-
A lot of the more elaborate tombs had good stories behind them- We saw the woman who made the pledge of allegiance a common practice in schools, the guy that started Pierce Automotive, the people that invented right and left shoes and the shoe tongue and Pres. Milliard Fillmore- who founded the SPCA-so that was cool - and they were all right here in Buffalo- We also went to see the blue sky memorial- it was made by Frank Lloyd Wright- it costs a ridiculous amount of money to be buried there- so I guess only one plot has ever been sold - and that guy isn't dead yet- so no one is there.

At the end there was a raffle and mom won! She got a book of pictures and crazy stories over the past few hundred years that the cemetery has been there.

Afterwards we went to Pano's on Elmwood- Joe and I ordered crab- When we got it, we were surprised to find we actually ordered two little crabs- they were super cute and we had no idea how to eat them-But don't worry - Joe found a way!