Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving, Katie and I traveled back to the Hoosier State. We decided to drive it and do some sightseeing on the way. After leaving Hutch on Tuesday, we stopped in Kansas City tuesday night. Wednesday morning, we checked out the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and American Jazz Museum in Kansas City. Both were pretty interesting. The NLBM had lots of nice artifacts from the many Negro Leagues that existed from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Jazz Museum was also pretty cool. It had a ton of neat interactive displays and audio to listen to and play with.

After those visits, we hit the road for Thorntown. While we were there, we had Thanksgiving and Christmas with my parents, and we checked out the Thorntown Library. They underwent a lot of renovations since the last time I had been there, including the installation of a replica of the Anson Mills Statue, which used to sit at the intersection of Main and Market Street. We also toured the Sugar Creek Art Center, a new art studio in one of the old Thorntown Factories. It was pretty impressive.

Sunday, we attended the ninth annual Ball State Thanksgiving. It was nice to see some friends and have another huge meal. We left Sunday evening to head back to Kansas, stopping in St. Louis. On Monday morning, we checked out the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, including the Gateway Arch. The weather was pretty crappy, but we got to check out some pretty cool stuff.

Weather

Even though we all know that weather is what you talk about when you really don't have anything to say, and you're probably talking to people you don't want to talk to, I'm going to do it. It doesn't make sense, because I don't have to talk to you, but seriously, how often – on November 19th – do you walk out of work into a dark sky, and the temperature is still 73 degrees? The first person that says no more than once a year... just don't. It's nuts. I think it got up to 82 today. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 74. Then the fun happens. Wednesday's high is 44. Should be a nice shocker. Anyway, headed back to Indiana for the holiday, so we're out from Tuesday to Monday. Maybe we'll see you there...

I've been published

So I'm totally a professional photographer. Quitting my day job to be like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window.

Check it out at: http://www.schmap.com/berlin/sights_churches/#p=160608&i=160608_18.jpg.

Household chores

Laundry, light bulb changes, grill in the garage for winter, tasty beverage.

Halloween 2007

Pumpkins Aglow, originally uploaded by scott_allen13.

Well, even though we waited until the last minute, Katie and I managed to get our pumpkins carved. And even though, it's now November, I'll go ahead and put them up, just because mine is so awesome. I'll let you guess which one is which. So anyway, Happy Halloween!