Rampant Illness in Bloomington

We finally managed to make it down to visit my sister Teela in Bloomington, Indiana.  Bloomington is a small little university town, that exemplifies many of the ideals that Gus and I hold.  Most areas are walkable and the city is working on making everything accessible by trails.  They just voted to raise taxes to counteract the recent funding cuts to schools and people pay to get rid of garbage, but not recycling.  The city is also working to buy up all the billboards to eradicate advertisements from down town.  Teela had a long and exciting itinerary planned which would convince us to drop everything we hold dear and move to Bloomington.  Unfortunately, one day after we arrived I caught a gastro-intestinal bug that had just run through Teela's family and commenced vomiting.  I tried to send Teela to pick up some gravel suppositories, but apparently those are prescription only in the states. I decided to forgo them, but after 21 hours of vomitting, I gave in.  So after a $109 dollar doctor visit and $26 dollars at the pharmacy, I acquired 6 precious suppositories.  With the aid of the suppositories I was able to pseudo-function, just in time for Gus to get sick with the same thing I add.  Add to this that Merlin was running a fever and Teela and Peff both had a cold, which Max promptly caught, and for some reason we didn't accomplish much of Teela's itinerary.  

Max "helps" Viola.  Actually I think he was trying to grab the soother in her hand.

Max looks out his favorite window in Aunty Teela's house.

That said, Max and Viola were still adorable, and both were going at top speed for most of the visit.   With 4 sick adults we were just barely able to keep up with them.  They are very interested in each other and spend much of their time tearing around the house on all fours, double trouble style.  That is, when they are not fighting over toys and stealing the other's soother.   Due to the illness, we didn't get as many adorable pictures as we would have liked, but I have posted the few we got here (https://picasaweb.google.com/james.greta/VisitToBloomington?authkey=Gv1sRgCL_K4IP3yt6ROQ#).