Siena: City of Surprises, Part 2

Back to Siena! Talking about that little town will seem so peaceful after a busy weekend.

Here's what happened:

Friday. My brothers and sister and I went out for our quarterly Nick's-home-from-college lunch at Pei Wei. Then we stopped at a Halloween Warehouse (yessssss) where we tried on just about every hat they had. The boys dragged us to some video game store next door, but fortunately Claire and I found this.

It kept us very entertained.

Pinterest Fails

Almost two months ago I started using Pinterest at Teresa's insistence. (Check out her "Olson rule" for Pinterest.) Although time-consuming, it's really fun for those of us who saved newspaper clippings and magazine pictures all of our lives. If you haven't tried it out yet, Pinterest allows you to "pin" pictures from websites onto your own "boards." Cracked.com gives a bemused explanation of the manicure tutorials and Doctor Who pictures that make up this new form of social media.

Despicable Me also appears frequently on Pinterest...

Oh, and CAT PICTURES!

My discussion of Pinterest will focus mostly on Pinterest fails, but not in the sense that most of us know the phrase. A Pinterest fail is usually when you try out a recipe or craft from Pinterest and it comes out nothing like the original pin.