Gargoyles of Notre Dame

That's me, left, on my yearly October pilgrimage to DisneyWorld. If I look my worst it's because I was tired and hot and sweaty and the French section's waiting area did not have enough benches for everyone's butts.

But they did have a reproduction of one of the Gargoyles of Notre Dame. Or more appropriately, maybe this one is a chimera (...side note: do you pronounce the "ch" in this word as a hard "K" or as a soft "SH"? ...I ask because in school we used "Chimeras," and my professor always always always pronounced it opposite of the greek - gah! Damn you Chimera and your Perfect Lighting).

Which looks an amusing lot like one of the gargoyles I see each night while walking my dog (right).

How cute is that? My neighborhood features several gargoyles for no discernible reason. I love it.