For Emily's birthday, she asked for tickets to Denver Comic Con. She was so excited to go. She laid out her Princess Leia costume the night before and dreamed about being in geek heaven.
Reality was a bit different. It turns out that Comic Con had an unintentional theme this year: Dystopian Future. You know, the kind where everything turns to mob rule and there are food shortages and it turns into every man for himself.
After a half hour walk from our parking space, a half hour standing in line just to get in the building and another hour standing in line to get food, without actually getting any, we left.
At that point, we were willing to do whatever it took to salvage Emily's birthday present. We put everything on the table.
She chose the aquarium, something I was grateful for because it was a blazing hot day. After a long walk back to the car, during which Jane had to strip down to her undershirt (a look that I told her was all the rage), we were finally able to drive to...
the aquarium!
And Emily rejoyced.
Emily's greatest wish is to go to the beach. We will get her there someday, but for now, this was a nice substitute.
We rounded out the day with dinner at Cinzetti's. The girls said it was the best dinner they ever had. I chose not to see this as an insult to my cooking.
And our Harry Potter/Batgirl/Sherlock/Monty Python gear looked just as nice here as it would have at Comic Con.
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