My hubbie's launch of Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot at PrairieCon in Brandon, Manitoba is now up on their website. See http://zenzombie.com.

My daughter (Swabbie Calico Bess Flint) and I saw Robert Munsch for the pre-school outing. He is a great story teller and kept all the kids captivated. It seemed to be based on his published books with him retelling them with names from kids from the audiance in a pantomine fashion. My daughter loved it and so did the rest of the audience which went up as the layers of the theatre went to. I am sure grade eight (or higher) were on the third floor (yes the TCU centre was full as the local schools got a good discount, so almost all school trips).

My hubbie launched Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot yesterday from 9.30am to 12 noon at PrairieCon in Brandon, Manitoba. See http://zenzombie.com/category/news/. One set of t-shirts had arrived but the other (better made set) I guess are stuck in customs. But my boys had a great tome at the games conference demoing the game which can now be bought online.

My son (Powder Monkey Black William Flint) yesterday went round the Apple store in Edmonton loading up the following page on every apple product he could lay his hands on. See http://zenzombie.com/category/news/. He seems to really like the game James and Aidan designed. While working out the steps for the computer player online version we were playing with cut up pieces of paper. For the ninja my son had dressed up as a ninja; and the pirate, was of course a picture of me dressed as Ma Kettle.

I do have something to write on the blog for next week but at the moment it is all quiet, which probably means I am missing something.

. I looked up Vampirate in the Urban Dictionary online. Well done Ruqayyah for adding the definition in 2008.

It is also a fictional creature from the series Vampirates.
A man or woman who has died (or crossed as they say it) is brought back to life (or sired) by another vampire becomes one.
They are Vampirates when they join the vampirate ship which is led by the vampirate captain.
"and his eyes never meet the light"
"Our ways are strange here, you'll have to get used to them"
"I'm so hungry, It's feast night tonight"
"Your blood tastes nice by the way"
"She's been rescued by the vampirate ship!"

The entry can be seen at : http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=vampirate

Happy New Year.