The Giant Squid
October 16th – Let me tell you a little bit about the squid hat. On a trip to Six Flags a few summers ago, I fell in love with an orange squid hat that was behind the Strong Man game. In this game, you hit this device with a mallet and see if you can get the puck to rise to the top of the tower and ring the bell. To make a long story short, despite my irrational fear of giant squids, I hit that bell and won a new hat. Flash forward a few years, and it seemed an obvious choice to put my new son in the hat as a scuba diver who is being eaten by a Giant Squid. We created an outfit by spray-painting a black 1-liter bottle and connecting it with black rope to a black pacifier. We went to a small beach off the Manasquan River and plopped Charlie down for a minute. Despite his attempts to eat seaweed and notify us that he was ready to begin eating sushi, we kept the pacifier in his mouth long enough to get a nice photo. I sincerely believe that every parent wants a picture of their child being eaten by a giant squid whether they know it or not. I highly recommend it.