Like Sara, I have to comment on some boots I saw today while eating lunch with friends. Jess and I were getting some pasta when I noticed the boots on some girl in line. They were white and gray checkered, fuzzy, and had two pink tassley ball things dangling from the top. I gestured at them in what I thought was a discreet manner, trying to get Jess to look. When we walked by our table on the way to the pasta, Todd and Wes called us over, wanting to know if we were talking about the girl’s boots, too. They had apparently seen me gesturing and had also been marveling at the sheer ugliness of the boots. When we were all seated again, pasta in hand, the lot of us tried to describe those boots. Here’s what we came up with:

• It looks like a Yeti is on her feet. – Ashlee
• How many cows did you have to kill to get those shoes? – Wes
• Did she kill a snow leopard? – Wes

I think the winter season is an excuse for girls to whip out the most bizarre of footwear. I thought Ugg boots were just the end of the line for wacky shoes, but now I’m seeing even uglier stuff: knit boots, anyone? It seems so impractical to have fuzzy knit boots for a season filled with snow, ice, and rain on the ground. At least my garish rain boots are practical in that they keep my feet dry.