Snail or Slug and a Giant Voodoo Doll!

There was a snail on our balcony today allthough it wasn't even raining.

Here's a close up of the snail.
It's a snail right? Or is it a slug? It's another one of those things that I always get confused. Here we call all snail-like critters 'slak'. We just put something in front of the word slak to make sure everyone knows what kind of 'slak' we're talking about: Huisjesslak (the kind like in the picture, means house snail/slug as it has it's house on it's back), naaktslak (naked slug/snail, the kind without a shell), waterslak (water snail/slug, the kind that you find in the water). Anyway: this is my favourite kind of 'slak'. I think they're very beautiful.

On to the really cool news of today:

When we were in town to get our shopping done we saw this giant voodoo doll!
It was in the shopwindow of the bookstore, because it's the month of the suspense books this month. All month they have a showcase on thrillers and other suspense books and you can get a discount on lots of them too. In the background you can see the book my owner's OH got for free yesterday too: you get it for free everytime you buy a book this month it turns out.