Trip Photos are Up!

Feel free to peruse them at my Flickr site.



Puffins!

I'm Back!

...and I'm exhausted. I was all ready to twitter through the trip, but I think we over-planned a bit, and I just didn't have the time or energy to update it. We went to Chicago for two days, then drove to St. Louis on the third day, and stayed there until Sunday when we drove straight back home. The reason I'm so pooped:

• Attended to two White Sox games (1 loss, 1 win)
• Bought just under $300 worth of new wardrobe from H&M (and that can buy a lot, let me tell you)
  
• Visited no less than 14 places in one day in Chicago, on foot, with blisters
  
• Ate french fries every day (sometimes twice!) for a week
• Shopped University City in St. Louis and ate the most enormous hamburger EVER.
  
• Ate at Ted Drewes twice
  
• Went up the arch for the second time in my life (still underwhelming, IMHO)
• Toured the Cardinals Museum, Bowling Museum, and AKC Museum of the Dog (boring, really boring, O.K.)
• Got some kind of stomach flu, and still managed to visit two museums, ride the Arch AND go to the Union Station mall the next day, mostly on foot.

...and that was just Thursday! (I kid.) Those are just the highlights (and lowlights, I guess), so you can see why I requested we try taking a vacation involving a lot of napping and doing nothing next time. Yes, I know the next vacation will probably be the big U.K. honeymoon we are planning, but I'm thinking with my feet right now, and they're worn out.

If I ever get out of the mound of dirty laundry we've brought home, I'll be uploading pictures soon. I'm focusing on getting Buddy Baroo re-adjusted back to a homelife without Mr. Beau (more on that later), getting my digestive system back to normal, and preventing the weight gain from the horrendous diet I just cosumed last week.

Twitter is EVIL...in a good way

Now that I've started using Twitter, I'm really fascinated by it. It's like old-school IMing or chat rooms, but permanent and bigger. I've been messing around trying to find a way to post to it via my super-basic phone without using text messages (which I refuse to pay for), and I've found TwitterMail. Since I have Yahoo! Mail on my phone, it's really easy. The only problem is that I'm the world's slowest texter. Typing in a few words on my phone takes about 5 minutes, and don't even ask me how to work the capitalization thing.

As I'll be on vacation next week, I figured I'd send at least one update a day reporting on what I did/am doing. Not that anyone would be all that fascinated, but I think it would be kinda fun to have a list of all the things I did for "posterity".

This Twitter Thing

I signed up for Twitter. I don't know how much I'll use it. Maybe it will challenge me to make my life a little more interesting. Or not. I'll see if I can send a few updates while on vacation next week.

Children's drawings come to life

How cute/creative are these pictures?

http://www.yeondoojung.com/artworks_view_wonderland.php?no=88