Badass Opa

While in Lübeck yesterday we ran across the Theater Figure Museum. Apparently it's the world's largest showcase of its kind. And it's practically my mother-in-law's idea of paradise. Of course she had to add some new marionettes from the museum shop to her vast collection. I suggested this one resembles my father-in-law and was pretty cool as far as puppets go - although, I'm not generally too fond of the things (I find them a bit creepy). Anyway, badass Opa here is now hanging in the winter garden.

I'm currently reading a book about another spectacular old guy and quite enjoying it: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared from Jonas Jonasson. I didn't expect to like it at all, but the book club gals selected it for next month, so I agreed to try it. Surprisingly, it's a really fun Forrest Gump-type of adventure. Centenarian Allan is rather a badass himself and gets into all sorts of great mischief when he busts out of the old-folks home. Along the way, his amazing life story is unraveled, full of world-travel and fateful close calls.

There's a quote throughout the book, Allan's personal philosophy of sorts, that I particularly love:

"Things are what they are and whatever will be, will be."