Leaf It Alone

Photos

It's been a while since I put some photos up. Here are some recent ones that I found laying around - quite a variety too.

Babymoon

This weekend, Stacey and I headed for Chicago on our "babymoon." That's what couples do who are going to have a baby - take your last trip without children that you are going to get for the next twenty five years. We took a three-day weekend and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

In an effort to make this blog less long, compared to previous posts, I'll put the highlights in bullets and include a Picasa slideshow.

• Three Days, Two Nights in Chicago, staying at the Conrad
• A stop at the Museum of Science & Industry
  
• Less than inspiring and the second best museum of the trip
• Dunkin' Donuts (my favorite) Twice
• They have an astonishing White Hot Chocolate
• If they were to come to Muncie, I'd visit daily like all too many Starbucks fiends
• The McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum
• We popped-in because it's free until Election Day
• It focuses on First Amendment Rights, with notable exhibits on the Presidential Election, interactive touch screen gadgets and even Stacey thoroughly enjoyed it
• We had Giordano's deep dish pizza. That made baby's mama happy
• We took in the Tony-winning musical, Wicked. It was wicked awesome.
  
• Dinner at Weber Grill another night
• A book store was perused
• We strolled through Millennium Park
• "The Bean" is neat, the ice skating is picturesque and the green space, necessary
• All-in-all, we had a very enjoyable, low-key weekend

In attempt to even out the ratio of "us pictures" to "pictures of stuff" (at Stacey's request), we tried to take more pictures together. And we had some funny moments with time-delay photography. Here's what I mean:




And then here are a sampling of photos for the rest of our trip.

Books and Pictures

I wrote down a list of books from elementary and middle school - books that I really enjoyed then and books I wouldn't mind reading again. Here's the list (did I miss any?):

• Where the Wild Things Are
• Mercer Mayer books
• Miss Nelson is Missing!
  
• Indian in the Cupboard
• The Chocolate Touch
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• The Red Badge of Courage
• The Secret Garden
• Hatchet
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• The Bunnicula series
• Charlotte's Web
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• How to Eat Fried Worms
• The House of Dies Drear
• Sarah Plain and Tall
• The Giver
• Shiloh

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And I picked up my camera as I took the dog for a walk tonight. Here are a few that where on there from months ago and a few from todays flooding (I always love seeing flooded rivers...not that I like devastation and damage and loss of life, just to nature overcoming its normal boundries - I really enjoy nature, that's all)