Caricatures are for the Birds!

As a couple, Robert and I luckily haven't made many mistakes. We seem to make pretty sound decisions between the two of us, and haven't royally screwed anything up yet. However, there are two specific subjects that we just cannot seem to get right. They are: selling our house, and having caricatures drawn.

I know you're thinking, "What the hell do those two things have to do with one another?" The answer is nothing, except for the fact that neither of them have seemed to work out for us so far. We put our house up for sale just as the market tanked and no one wants to buy anything, so we still live here.

And as for caricatures, we went to Las Vegas on vacation back in 2005 and we thought it would be so fun to have a silly picture drawn of the two of us as a memento of the occasion. We sat there for about 20 minutes while this old man in the Venetian Hotel proceeded to capture our beauty on paper. We were sweating bullets and starving and ready to get the hell out of there, but it was going to be so worth it! When he was through with all the finishing touches, he handed over his artwork. OMG, my jaw must have dropped to the ground in awe at how much this did NOT look like either of us. Well, lets just say it was hideous. My best friend of all time, Sherry, told me I looked like the Bride of Chuckie and Robert looked like a 12 year old boy! That's what is so great about best friends, honesty!

Now, you would think we would've learned our lesson. Oh... No... we aren't that smart.

We went to a local festival this weekend and there was a caricaturist there. All of the artwork that he had displayed was really good and we watched him draw several portraits while we waited patiently for our turn. We thought that it would be great to have Addison's picture drawn as a memento of the occasion... $15 down the drain!

Addison sat there so patiently and allowed this man to draw her to perfection. He was grinning from ear to ear as he revealed his latest masterpiece. When he showed me that picture, I almost laughed out loud in his face. It is scary looking. That picture doesn't even look like a baby, let alone my baby! Robert said it looked like an 80 year old woman with piggy tails! I think I agree.

Tell me what you think. Should I have told that guy he could keep his creepy old picture and ran? I mean what do you do in a situation like this? I know one thing, we will not be paying for anymore of these so called masterpieces!