A Book Problem

I have a problem.

They say the best thing to do is to confess it. Well, there you go - I have a problem.

:-)

I love to read books. I love to visit book stores. This weekend, the Davies Expeditionary party of 2004/5 have been suffering from the common cold, so instead of doing the tourist thing, we visited bookstores. Oh oh. On Saturday we visited Barnes and Noble which was a quiet relaxed store with broad subject coverage - with some especially nice photography books. On Monday, we visited Borders which was equally nice, having some rarely-stocked books on Linux and Open-Source.

There's nothing quite as relaxing as grabbing a bunch of books, sitting down in the in-house cafe, listening to piano jazz, sipping good coffee and eating a toasted sandwich, on a cold winters day, and reading. Ahhhh. Out of the 4 day weekend we just had, we got to do this twice. Ahhhh. One of the best perks of spending time in the USA.

Without self-control I could have easily walked out with 20 books. I only bought 3 :-)

travel/chicago | 04 Jan 2005 | #

Christmas 2004

Christmas Eve was at the Zehner's, where we had a wonderful American time. Just like in Australia we stood around the BBQ, cooking up some food - the difference being that it was about -10C - brrrrrr! The Zehner extended family were very kind to us, inviting us in and making us feel very much at home over a big meal. Carol embroidered some beautiful Christmas stockings for J and B, and the Zehner's filled them with American-style toys such as a slinky and Jacks. J and B just loved it! On Christmas Evening we went and visited Jon and Sara Yun, which we know from Harvest. The Yun's were also very generous, inviting us into their home for a meal and making us feel very much at home. We had a great time. The evening was capped off with light fluffy snow - meaning that we did get our white christmas! We felt very blessed over Christmas. More photos available.

travel/chicago | 04 Jan 2005 | #