Last Breathed

Today was my birthday. Woohoo! For my birthday I got two of the best gifts possibly: Bek let me sleep in and Bek let me go to the Deadwood while she watched the kids! All I can say, after finally being able to try the pinball machines at the Deadwood is... do I really have to come home?

If the pins at Deadwood and everything else I've shown and talked about isn't enough for you, how about this: Berkeley Breathed was here, and he loved it. He loved it so much that he created numerous comic drawings detailing his love for the city which he gave to the public library and they have on display. And that public library is of course one of the things he loved so much, and it is pretty incredible. Of course so far all I've seen is the kids side of it, but wow. It's big, it's beautiful, it's comfortable, it has everything. Aside from books, music, videos and dvds, they have a train table, toys, a little slide, puzzles, listening and viewing stations, windows at kid-level, internet access computers, computers with kids games loaded on them, a gigantic stuffed Clifford, a story time room, and I'm sure other stuff I've missed. Oh, and it's right near that city fountain and the playground. Some of the kid-level windows look out to the playground area, and to the fountain beyond.

We also spent quite a long time at the fountain today. Emmett got really soaked. The boys took part in a group effort with other kids, putting their feet on top of the water jets to stop them, then simultaneously (at least trying to do so simultaneously) stepping off again to start them again. Oh, and we found out the other day that they also have lights in those jets so that they light up at night. They lights appear to move up the stream in pulses, and I guess down again, but it wasn't dark enough to see that then. I haven't seen it yet at night, but I promised Max that one night soon we'd let them stay up late so we could go see it in the dark.