A Little Trip Around Town

My friends have never been to Taste of Belgium.
Yes, I was apalled.... but, never fear, I made sure to cross that off their lists.
+ I got my waffle fix.
+ We took some super-hipsteresque photos outside, at Nader's bidding, while we were waiting on breakfast.

"oh that's deep. is this the hipster world?"

YES.

Once we'd had our breakfast fix, we opted to take a random mini tour of the city, stopping first at the cigar shop in which Keith works. Directly above that is Cincinnati's Mercantile Museum; if you've not been through there, I would definitely recommend swinging through!

Some highlights from the afternoon...

cigar shop. [+ i now own a corncob as a souvenier!]

statue staredowns

shhh.

one of my idols... i'm certainly no comparison, but here's a tribute..
.. [to] the one & only ray charles

♥libraries. ♥ohio.

bro looking rather pensive..

the mushroom house. all 'natians know where this is...

Since we were all lacking sleep from last night, we soon were off to our separate ways: Nader went to work and I went home to get a nap and take care of some things around the house. The late afternoon passed without much fuss, and soon enough we were back for round II, this time with Carolina.

Too much fun, I tell you.

i have been concisely mandated by the masses to watch
breaking bad. i will eventually get around to this, i will...

making the most of a rainy night with some great people
keith. nader. todd. carolina. me.

It wasn't as long a night as last night; we found ourselves back at Nader's rather early, and decided we'd take a stab at watching Finding Nemo, 3D just for kicks. 1: Nader had never before seen the movie. 2: It's 3D. An all around win (:

"you go home & put your 3D glasses on!"

And that's a little trip around this little town of ours. There's much more to be seen, but we'll venture that on another day (:

xo | cmd

Toddler-sitting!

Today was an exciting day for Sydni. It's not unusual for her to hang out with other kiddies on the weekends, especially Sundays due to church and post-church play dates. Today was special because Amy & Kyle asked us to watch Tessa for the afternoon while they got some Christmas shopping under control. I told Sydni about it Thursday after I'd originally confirmed with Amy, and she's been babbling about it since.



little buddies :)

 I was quickly educated on what it would be like if I had been graced with twins. It was funny watching two little girls being two little girls and all the wonder that comes along with that. They were more than content to play Barbies in the doll house, push baby dolls around in the stroller, and marvel over newly-painted fingernails [I lended some aid in that one]. After hours of squealing, chasing, playing, and the inevitable increments of innate toddler territorial disagreements, they settled into the big bean bag chair and peacefully remained there for nearly the entire duration of Finding Nemo.

All in all, a pretty fun day here at the Dills residence. Joe slept through the majority of the day since he'd worked last night, but he was awake when Kyle & Amy showed up later in the evening. He works again this evening, so I'll leave it at that and get back to the rest of our evening here.

Ciao!

xo | cmd

Wednesday Wish List

I've ranted too many times about my busted D-90. I'm still salty with the USPS over the whole ordeal, but by Diana Owens' genius suggestion, I've resubmitted the claim for appeal with a repair quote attached. My poor broken shutterfly is patiently waiting in the corner now to be dropped off, pending a USPS decision.

In the meantime, I started browsing some new accessories for the D-90. I found a few things that reminded me exactly why I shouldn't ever do this until I'm ready to buy. I'm now stuck with a mini obsession for the new gear. Christmas idea? ;)

The specs on this buster are incredible, not to mention on its own it's pretty fun to look at, drool over, .... puuuurchase..... ?

In due time, Cori. Let's get the actual camera repaired before we launch out collecting new accessories.

At any rate, this will fit just fine with the Gary Fong diffuser, so I think I've officially been sold.

If there's anyone out there with any feedback on this little guy, feel free to forward it my way. I've read nothing but high remarks from current and former users, so we'll see.

Just thought I'd share :)
I'm in a particularly good mood today, and I don't see any specific reason for it other than life really is just good. It's an early blog night, but I've got a little girl here that wants to go watch Nemo for the 48392745927424th time. I guess we'll do that and pretend we're worried, again, when the 'balloons' blow up the sunken ship at the beginnning. That's the fun in it.

Nite :)

xo | cmd