On the first day (Friday), we went south and had lunch with my father on the north side of Columbus. We caught up, talked about the future of the company, and I bought two rather swanky button up shirts from the Eddie Bauer outlet for a mere $15 each. Granted, I could have purchased shirts at the salvy for $3 or $4, but they never have my size, and let's face it, Eddie Bauer is just omigosh: posh.
After the Columbus interlude, we proceeded on to Indianopolis for the evening to visit with one of Becca’s old friends. On Saturday we got up, went to a farmer’s market in the rain, took a walk, and played some board games (due to the inclement weather). We've been playing this game called Monopoly deal. It's pretty fun, and I'd recommend it if you like Monopoly but don't like it because it plays like Monopoly. The card version is very quick (say 10 minutes a round) and is more fun.
Becca’s friend was a lot of fun to chat with, but by late afternoon we had to say our goodbyes and we drove north to have dinner with the Nearing clan in Lafayette Indiana. These are our old Feast of the Hunters Moon friends, and it had been years since I had met with them, so it was really nice to catch up. They treated Becca and I to a nice meal at a rather swanky pan-Asian place in downtown Lafayette.
After dinner, we drove still farther north and met with a mutual friend from Oberlin in south Chicago. We chatted with him for a while. He is attending the divinity school at the University of Chicago and had only recently started, so we got to talk about what life was like in graduate school. He was living in a sort of Church-dormitory and there were these really cool lamps that doubled as exit signs. The writing is actually a part of the glass:
After a while, two more Oberlin friends showed up and we drove to north Chicago and spent the night with these other fellow Obies.
On Sunday, we woke up, tried to go to the Chicago Public Library (it was unfortunately closed until later in the day), so we chatted in a coffee shop about careers and life decisions and how to find work you love. Behold us in the coffee shop being REASONABLE SOCIALIZING GENTLEMEN (and women):
Then we walked around the city for 3 hours. We saw an art gallery that was fairly atrocious, had lunch at a hip burger joint (we got 10+ to our hipness as a result), and I bought my mum a gift at a gourmet tea shop. The tea shop was manned by this Asian dude that seemed to know more about tea than most people know about their spouses. He was pretty cool and talked with us about the chemistry of brewing tea. All those shelves behind him are tea samples for customers to try:
In the evening, still more Oberlin friends stopped to have dinner with us. The company was great, but we were totally exhausted, so we collapsed early.
The next day we just woke up and went back to Oberland where we resided the rest of the week doing things less dramatic. Until today of course. Nick and I went knifin' around the woods and got some great photos of us making hilarious faces. Will blog about that later. Perhaps tomorrow, time-permitting.
TEA SHOP!!!!!!!!!
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