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April 30, 2006
Making the Best of a Crummy Weekend
After a horribly busy week (job interview! Ack!) we decided to all hop in the car Saturday morning and head out for some business and pleasure. Sink shopping was the order of the day—figuring out what sort of sink we might want for our new bathroom. We headed up to Michigan City to Sparks Surplus to see what they might have in stock. No good sinks, but we may go back for lighting fixtures and such. And next to the building supply warehouse is... well, an Everything Warehouse. This place is a panacea. Anything you can imagine, under one roof, all at clearance prices. Need champagne flutes? $.50 a pop. Rakes? Candles? Party favors? Dishes? Gardening supplies? Diapers? Very weird/cool.
Next, Adam decided that we needed to drive up into Michigan, since we were so close and had never been there. We drove into New Buffalo, stopped at the beach, and took a bit of a walk. It's still too cool for beach weather (and it was threatening to rain, so it was pretty deserted), but the bug enjoyed watching the seagulls and playing on the swings. Then we went into town and had lunch at a cute little diner. On the way home we hit Menards to do some more sink and appliance browsing, and got home just as it started to rain. Of course I'm a dumbass and didn't bring the camera along, so we don't have any visual record of any of this.
Today it's just cold, rainy, and ick, so we're having a relaxing day at home. More news later...