The Empire Strikes Back

Tuesday is history day around our house, and Faith and I were reading about the first European colonies in the Americas. I read to her, "Spain was building an empire in the New World," and paused to ask her if she knew what an empire was.

"Oh, yes," she replied excitedly. "It's a bad person with pointy teeth!" At which point, my face must have given something away, because she added, "...isn't it?"

But just think if Spain had been building a vampire in the New World. There's a historical-conspiracy action movie in there somewhere.