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I've uploaded lots more pics from Caitlin's 3-month-late Sixteenth Birthday LOTR- Roadtrip-to-Houston-and-Ceilidh-Extravaganza at www.beehive.smugmug.com.

It was a mondo beyondo fun day, but one of the most memorable moments was when we left the museum and got on an elevator in the parking garage to get to our cars on the very top floor -- and all FOURTEEN of us crammed into one small elevator. One of the little guys started mumbling "Share the Well" and of course ALL of us immediately started singing it, in harmony, realllllly loud... with Papa Eric Brown pounding out some pretty spicy and precise percussion on the elevator walls with his hands and Papa Dan Bruce enhancing the effect with his stomping feet. Then the door opened on the third floor... and we were suddenly aware of a crowd of mighty bewildered folks standing there gaping at us. We were quite a spectacle, I'm sure.

Needless to say, nobody got on with us.

To paraphrase the immortal words of Hobbes to Calvin, "We're here to make your life just a little more surreal."