lions and tigers and ....

bears!

we sent erik's parents away on a romantic vacation to vermont for their anniversary. stowe, vermont to be specific. they left on saturday morning and didn't return until monday afternoon.

erik and i had a rager. party animals! all the time. just kidding. i think we went out to dinner and were in bed by 9. cause we're rockstars.

at like one o'clock in the morning erik sits straight up in bed and i instantly think oh man, he's sick. this is going to be miserable. how loving do i have to be? can i sleep through his sickness? oh man i hope he doesn't ask me to find something. because that's the kind of loving wife i am at one am. leave me alone. let me sleep.

no. instead he says, i think there's a bear on the porch. sleepy emily sleepy emily -wait, WHAT?

moving to the country is one thing, having a bear wake you up choppin' on your bird feeders brings a whole new meaning to the boonies.

we crept around the house afraid to startle it. we didn't want to scare it away! we wanted pictures. even if it was eating all our bird seed. slowly moving from one room to another trying to get a good look at it. erik somehow fumbled getting his camera. the first shot he took was straight glass. flash in the window. no good. did it scare the bear? no. round two. at some point erik was like hanging out the window trying to avoid the flash. probably not the best idea but whatev. so when we get to the point where we've had enough of trying to take dark pictures of a dark animal, we flipped on the porch lights thinking it'll scare him off.

negative.

erik rushed open the door and yelled, "what you doin' on my porch?" that scared him. that would scare anyone. erik's boonie accent is quite terrifying.

except it wasn't. hobo (as he came to be named- hobothias for his non acquaintances.) came back. with bobo (botharimeul). and they decided to destroy the kindling pile and fight in the yard and leave giant poops and walk through my garden and knock at the door to see if we had anymore bird seed inside. no bears. we don't. go home. you're causing a ruckus.

which they eventually did. after some more erik yelling.

only to come back thursday.