Making Vacation Photos Fun with Ewoks

By Alex in Pictures, Science Fiction, Travel on Sep 23, 2011 at 6:14 pm

Photo: Anthony Herrera

How can you make your vacation photos more interesting? Just add Ewok.

That's what geeky dad Anthony Herrera did when he took his kids to the Sequoia National Park in California:

A year ago we took a trip to Sequoia National Park. I wanted to excite my daughter while being in such amazing surroundings. Being the Star Wars geek that I am (so is she), I told her that this is where the Ewoks live. She spent a good chunk of our time hiking keeping a lookout for any Ewoks. Coming home I can’t say that she wasn’t disappointed that we didn’t find any. I had to explain that they are extremely shy and hardly ever let anyone see them. After we got home, and after I had a little time alone with the photos, I told her I thought I saw something strange in a few pictures. We viewed them on the TV to get a larger image. You can imagine how surprised and excited she was when we discovered that we didn’t see any Ewoks, but they saw us, and had certainly taken an interest in her and her little brother. Maybe I’m a little wrong for lying to her and falsifying the pictures, but I don’t care. She’ll never forget the time she spent in the big woods with Ewoks.

Link - via Geekdad

Tags: ewok, Sequoia National Park, Star Wars, vacation photo

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LisaL
Sep 23rd, 2011 at 7:22 pm
That REALLY creeps me out. o_o
a2veeness
Sep 24th, 2011 at 1:50 am
What a lovely thing to do! Not creepy and not really a lie either. When I was a kid (long ago) my deer-hunter dad put deer tracks all around the house and even on the edge of the roof one Christmas Eve so we’d think Santa’s reindeer had been there. Keep the magic alive!
monkey_town
Sep 24th, 2011 at 1:51 am
Meh, it’s like Santa Claus. I think it’s really cute.
Rumson
Sep 24th, 2011 at 5:20 am
I don’t see why lying to your kid to make them more interested in nature is a good idea. Isn’t Sequoia beautiful and interesting enough without adding something lame and commercial? Come on, ewoks? Time to hang up the lame star wars obsession.
Raf3
Sep 24th, 2011 at 6:32 am
Blah blah blah…y’all evidently have forgotten what it’s like to be a child…fantasy is perfectly acceptable and you will NOT resent the fact that your parents fed said fantasies…
Jen Parks
Sep 24th, 2011 at 7:27 am
Oh that’s cute, nd yes I don’t think that it’s wrong to have a fantasy bestowed onyour child after all several years later they’ll be ultra thankful and definitely understand.

Lol as for the ewok eh I don’t know I’d rather hav ea champaign and two dubs of a martinee and a gemini c group and also a hedgehog for the pickens between my teeth…
ted
Sep 24th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
Or it could lead to an unhealthy perception of reality. I agree with Rumson – what’s wrong with enjoying Nature for its own sake?
hmm...
Sep 25th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Still remember the day my parents told me the truth about Santa Claus. I litterely laughed my ass off. ROTFL type of thing. Don’t remember _exactly_ why but it was something to do with how so many kids for so long (me included) were being fooled by this unlikely “hoax”. The absurdity of it all dawned on me suddenly I suppose.
hmm...
Sep 25th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Literally. Wtf.
Joeychickenskin
Sep 26th, 2011 at 6:15 am
I think it’s a Santa Lie.

All well and harmless. The little girl gets to have a nice experience and is excited about the ewoks that hid in the bushes and one day when she’s older, she’ll work it out or have it explained and it will be a nice thing to have happened.

….until you can’t help yourself and TELL THE INTERNET.

Next thing you know it’s the talk of your town, parents are talking about it in front of their children, then your daughter finds out from someone else that daddy’s being playing tricks on her.

I think the internet and the Star Wars nostalgia will still be around in a couple of years. I’d have waited.

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