What's the Piggy Been Doing?

I've finally done some things besides reading and gaming.


On August 28 I went to a book market and got two me-sized books.


Last Thursday we heard our favorite restaurant was closing at the end of August, so we decided to eat there one last time.


Yum Yum!


After our meal we said goodbye to the restaurant.


Bye, bye, cooks. Thanks for all those awesome meals.


I'll miss this place.


The main entrance.


Bye, lions and Buddha.


One last picture with one of the lions.


On Friday we were meeting my owner's aunt.
We went to the station to greet her as soon as she arrived.

We went into town for a lovely lunch, but my owner forgot to take a picture. After lunch we visited the Martini tower and we climbed it!


I think these ropes are to ring the bells.


The tower has bells that can play all kinds of songs. I'm not sure if these were those bells or just replicas. I think replicas, because bells should be bigger, right?


That's more like it!


We had a great view!


We even went higher, but they put wire at the windows, so you couldn't fall off.


We climbed all the steps down again and showed my owner's aunt the dragon outside of the tower.

We did some shopping and sightseeing and my owner and me got a book gift card from her aunt, so we bought two books of course. At the end of the afternoon my owner's aunt went back home. We had an awesome day!


At home a package from Jeffe was waiting for us, and it was full of books! There were also marzipan piggies for me. Thanks, Jeffe!


Today we got a present from my owner's best friend:


Zomlings!
They're zombielike creatures, and they are really cool! I immediately made a picture of them with one of my zombie books.


One of the Zomlings is a piggy!

Thanks, K!

A Zombie and a Present

Last Saturday we went to the fair.
There weren't any fun rides, but we did play a game and won a zombie!


The zombie is missing all kinds of body parts.
You can assemble the zombie to make him complete.


You can even make a game out of it by setting a timer and trying to assemble the zombie before time runs out and he falls apart again, but as it's tricky enough to get him assembled without the platform he's on turning and shaking, I'll practice a bit first before playing the timed game.


Yesterday I got a present.
I wonder what Lakrids means...


There was liquorice inside!
I got a chocolate covered liquorice and a jar full of Habanero Chili Liquorice. Yum!

Thanks, E.!

Mushrooms, Dinosaurs, Zombies, and Pirates

Happy New Year everyone!
I know I'm late with my New Year greeting, but I've been busy, and when I wasn't busy, I was lazy ;-)


Yesterday we went into town for some shopping.
We had something to eat while in town. I had lots and lots of yummy mushrooms.


Look what we bought!
Two dinosaurs. One of them is a zombie dinosaur.


Isn't he cool!?


He found a spot in the living room where he can terrorize a tiny car.


Today I received a zombie book.
Slug Pie Stories sent me How to Navigate Zombie Cave and Defeat Pirate Pete for review. They even sent a card with it to thank me for wanting to read and review the book.


And a cool bookmark!

I think I will start on How to Navigate Zombie Cave and Defeat Pirate Pete as soon as I finish my current read. It looks and sounds really cool. Zombies and pirates!

Zombie Kitties

I had awesome mail yesterday.
A Zombie Kitties bookmark!
Isn't it beautiful?


There's also a poem on the back.
I can't wait to use it on my next zombie read!

Thanks M.
I love it!

10,000 Zombies

As promised I'm going to tell you about my cool new zombie book.
It's called 10,000 Zombies: Create More Than 10,000 Zombies and 10,000 Stories and is written by Alexander Cox and illustrated by David Hartman.


The cool thing is that it has pages that are divided into 3 parts, so you can mix the pages (and zombies) any way you want.


See: same torso as the zombie in the picture above, but another head and different legs.

So this way you can create lots of different zombies, and the stories on the left page also change when you mix the pages.

I think this is a really cool idea, and I'll be mixing and matching lots of zombies, and read the tales that go with them.

Martini Tower, Beanie Mail and Zombies

Yesterday evening my owner and I went out for drinks with a friend. We had a lovely view on the Martini Tower.


We also got some awesome mail this week:


Beanie sent us two beautiful cards and an art book!


The book has art by Tim White and there are really cool creatures and such in it.


I love it.
Thanks Beanie!


And I had zombies in my mail!
Rachel Aukes sent me a signed copy of Deadland's Harvest, the second book in an awesome series. I already have the first book on my shelf with favorite reads, so this one is going right next to it.


Later this year the last book in this trilogy will release. You can bet I will get my trotters on it, because the zombie apocalypse doesn't get any better than this!

Thanks Rachel!

Creepy Mail

There was a package from Beanie for me today.
Because he had warned us there might be zombies inside, I made sure to be armed when I opened it.


There was a card in a fun envelope, an orange piggy that Beanie rescued from a life on the streets and a mysterious ball that had the words Squeeze Freaks on it.


There was a creepy skull inside!
But what do I see behind his eyes?
I asked my owner to give the creepy critter a squeeze...


It's a worm!
How gross and cool!

Thanks Beanie!
What a great present.

Zombies and Chocolate in my Mail

I had awesome mail today!
Jess Haines send me an ARC of her next book Forsaken by the Others, a small sampler of her first book and chocolate!


The ARC was signed as well.
There are zombies in this story, so I kept calling it Zombified by the Others while Jess was writing it and as you can see she was kind enough to indulge me.

Thanks Jess!

Zombies and a Book

I'm still at home with a cold, but hope to be more active again soon.

I did receive awesome mail today though!

A Zombie Tarot!

This amazingly cool tarot deck was send to me and my owner as a (late) birthday present by Laura and Sparky. They know just what I like!

Thanks Laura and Sparky. We're very happy with this tarot and will consult it regularly to see what those zombies have in store for us.

I also received a book today.
A Luring Murder by Stacy Verdick Case is a fun murder mystery which I reviewed at my other blog when it released as an ebook. Stacy was kind enough to send me the print version now that it's released. If you haven't read any of Stacy's books yet, I can advice that you give them a try. They're really fun in my opinion.

Oh, look!
They printed a bit of my review of Stacy's first book in the back of A Luring Murder. How cool!

Thanks Stacy!