Larry around the world! Cont- Uallachán!

Larry went with me to campus this afternoon and had a grand time. He even ran into one of our numerous Nobel prize winning economists in the elevator, since the econ. department is on the floor just below the English department. The laureate in question was curious as to what I was doing with a leprechaun peeking out of my pocket but highly resistant to the idea of being photographed with my companion (I'm sure this just served as more fodder for our sober minded economists to gossip about those crazy literary people they share a building with). Larry predicts that the Chicago school of economics will soon be down on its luck for snubbing a photo op. with such a fine leprechaun.
Instead he had fun exploring the library while I returned some books. The librarian nixed flash photography, but I still got a sort of dark and fuzzy shot of him in one of the reading rooms:
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Then he got a tour of campus and he kept gleefully leaping into snowbanks everywhere we went:

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Indeed, his first taste of snow in New York evidently got him really excited, because he insisted that we stop at a park on the way home so that he could build himself a snowman. He was so proud when he finished that I had to take a picture:

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After spending all that time playing in the 25 degree weather, however, he was awfully cold, so I gave him a thimble of whiskey to warm the bones:

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Right now he's full of whiskey and pep, and dancing a little jig around the apartment. Hopefully he'll settle down and get some rest soon before he goes to see downtown Chicago tomorrow.

:lol: Love the photos Petrarch. I see you have a bit of snow already. Larry looks great.

You have already got snow!!!! Wishing I could be in Larry's shoes right now!

PS: That whiskey bottle does not look open at all! Are you sure it is whiskey that you are giving him? ;)

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Love the photos Petrarch. I see you have a bit of snow already. Larry looks great.

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You have already got snow!!!! Wishing I could be in Larry's shoes right now!

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Yep, it snowed Tuesday night, all the day Wednesday, and then a little more last night, so we've got a nice five or six inches lying around. It looks like a winter wonderland around here: just beautiful. We're supposed to get more over the weekend. I just hope it stops in time for me to fly out Monday.

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PS: That whiskey bottle does not look open at all! Are you sure it is whiskey that you are giving him?

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As for the whiskey bottle, it's true that the bottle pictured is as yet unopened, but only because Larry hadn't gotten to that one yet. He polished off an old bottle first and was getting set to have seconds. ;) It's also actually Scotch rather than Irish whiskey, but Larry seemed happy to drink whatever I had on hand. :D

A dumb queston. How did you get the thimble to stay in Larry's hand? :lol:

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A dumb queston. How did you get the thimble to stay in Larry's hand?

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He held it of course! (sotto voce: duct tape; I used a tiny amount of duct tape. :lol: )

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

He held it of course! (sotto voce: duct tape; I used a tiny amount of duct tape. :lol: )

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:lol: I wish I had thought of that.

is that University of Chicago? It looks so familiar....

:lol: those pics are brilliant! I love the little snowman! He must be very proud of himself!
I'd hide that red label Johnnie Walker if i were you!;) :p
I'm With Scher at the moment. I'd love to be in Larrys shoes! (we dont exactly get snow, and i'm sure its been a few millenia since larry has seen snow like that!)

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is that University of Chicago? It looks so familiar....

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Yes, that's where I am.

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those pics are brilliant! I love the little snowman! He must be very proud of himself!
I'd hide that red label Johnnie Walker if i were you!
I'm With Scher at the moment. I'd love to be in Larrys shoes! (we dont exactly get snow, and i'm sure its been a few millenia since larry has seen snow like that!)

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Glad you like the pics. Yes, I should have hidden the Johnnie Walker last night. Larry dipped his thimble a few too many times, and kept me up into the wee hours dancing on the piano again while lustily singing every imaginable verse of "Whiskey in the Jar." Around 1 am he wanted to go running out into the night to share a drink with his mate the snowman, but fortunately he toppled over on the way to the door and I tucked him in bed to sleep it off. It took a rather large cup of tea to get him going again this morning:

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He seems invigorated now, and ready for his afternoon out on the town.

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Originally Posted by Virgil

A dumb queston. How did you get the thimble to stay in Larry's hand? :lol:

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Ah, trust an engineer to ask such a question! :D

Larry seems as delighted to have tea as he was to have whiskey! :)

Those pics are awesome, Petrarch. I like the last one, with the tea.

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

Glad you like the pics. Yes, I should have hidden the Johnnie Walker last night. Larry dipped his thimble a few too many times, and kept me up into the wee hours dancing on the piano again while lustily singing every imaginable verse of "Whiskey in the Jar." Around 1 am he wanted to go running out into the night to share a drink with his mate the snowman, but fortunately he toppled over on the way to the door and I tucked him in bed to sleep it off. It took a rather large cup of tea to get him going again this morning:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...rningTea-1.jpg

He seems invigorated now, and ready for his afternoon out on the town.

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:lol: :lol: :lol: And you gave him Irish Breakfast tea and All! He must love you Petra! :D

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Larry seems as delighted to have tea as he was to have whiskey! :)

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:lol: And thats not surprising seeing as he is Irish and we are the biggest consumers of Tea in the world!!:D Do you wanna join in Scher? :)

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Ah, trust an engineer to ask such a question! :D

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I may have mentioned this once, but I was once dubbed "the asker of stupid qestions" at work once by a smark aleck engineer. ;)

Well, Larry and I had a great day out on the town, and took lots of pictures despite the gray and snowy/sleety weather this afternoon. We started out at the Art Institute where Larry first posed at the base of one of the giant lion statues out front (you can just make him out toward the left side of the base of the statue):

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I got Larry in free with my museum membership, and he was very excited to see all the famous artwork. We even got some shots of him next to some of the museum's best known paintings. By Seurat's "La Grande Jatte":
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Picasso's "Guitar Player":
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Here's Larry trying his best to cheer up the subjects of Wood's "American Gothic":
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After viewing the collections we had lunch at the museum restaurant where Larry shared in my wonderful dessert (white chocolate and peppermint mousse on Chocolate cake):

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