More fun in Cleveland

I guess I should give some background for this and the previous post, since it doesn't look like I will get my entire trip up in one go. So briefly, for T's grand 29th birthday I took a long overdue trip to Cleveland to visit.

I must say it far exceeded my expectations! I had made a list of things I wanted to do in Cleveland over a year, or maybe more, ago and we did everything on the list. This included several book stores, museums, shops and oh so much more.

Here T is perusing the rack and a basement vintage shop that I was pretty convinced when we arrived on the street is was supposed to be on that it did not exist. Nothing explained that it was inside and underneath another establishment - it was quite the adventure. But the delay did allow us a visit to a lovely little independent music store where I picked up a cd as a gift for J that I am ashamed to admit I now have in the CD player in my car, it will reach its destination eventually.

These following photos are all from Mac's Books. I like books, maybe like is an understatement, considering that on my vacation I requested we visit two book shops and we also stopped at two libraries.

I have no idea what this store is called...

But it was seriously amazing! C - you would have died, it was ThinkGeek and pop culture paraphernalia on crack. There was spray paint all over the ceilings and floors, and stuff EVERYWHERE. It was like a mini museum. Comic books, board games, and entire pillar covered in Atari games. Everything from bacon gum to old time magazines. They had an entire display of TMNT set up with all the action figures and painted like a sewer. 4-7 year old J would have fainted.

Here is T with the Cleveland wall of memorabilia, I mean any store that has a fun house mirror right when you walk in has to be amazing right?

So awesome it was almost overwhelming.

Sick Q

Q is an active bouncy baby, I mean really really bouncy. A few weeks ago she was not feeling well and cuddly Q was born. I love bouncy Q, but cuddly Q is fantastic!

The Birds

The first weekend in March we collected a group (3 cars full) of friends and went down to the Paramount Theater in Oakland to watch AH's The Birds. I spent the next few days being painfully aware of all bird sounds.

Fast forward a few weeks and I am driving into the parking lot behind my apartment. I notice several small finch like birds swooping around and found it rather odd. Imagine my confusion when walking up behind the apartments I see that ALL these 9 or 11 birds appear to be attacking my roommates bathroom window. Below is the sketch I drew at work the next day.



It was seriously creepy.

Here we are at the movie.