Vacation. . . all I ever wanted

Day two of my vacation included a long-awaited trip to my favorite little quaint town across the river. The best part of the trip is that my dear friend, Queen of Cool, joined me. We ventured out for some shopping at the cute, original and sweet little shoppes all along the downtown crossroads.

A light lunch, a trip to a few mainstream stores and our day was complete. A few one-of-a-kind holiday finds including an ornament deemed "Ghetto Santa" by Queen of Cool, yarn for Knitty's Fetching (my first attempt at cabling) and two sock patterns. Queen of Cool, obviously humored me with one quick stop at the yarn shoppe.

Today I am meeting a college friend at a little town midway between both of our homes. I rarely see her and am so looking forward to catching up. Tonight I'll take my dad shopping for my mother; it's an annual event where my dad steps foot into stores he only enters once a year and complains about the prices of items.

Please keep my mom in your prayers. She's going through a bit of a health scare. We are hoping for good news today. In an effort to distract my mom, we visited the bookstore last night and toured around looking at Christmas lights. It was a brief distraction, but also some time together. Please send good vibes her way today.

On Monday I received the coolest of CDs from Farmwife. What a great mix. It accompanied us last night on our tour. Thanks, Farmwife. I luv it. I also got the coolest of Christmas cards from Phinner. Run, Phin, Run.

Another ornament from our tree. This one is huge, so it usually fills a gap in our tree.