I've also been having very severe wisdom tooth pain. My surgery is this Friday, but I honestly don't know if I can wait that long. The pain is probably the second worst I have ever had and the entire right side of my head just feels like horror. Still, I am pushing through and hopefully I can get them to do the surgery on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Anyway, enough of all that. Here is the second part of our Wednesday date!
After the Big Red Barn in Weston, we made the fifteen minute drive out to Leavenworth, Kansas. Leavenworth is home to an army base and some awesome little antique shops and boutiques. Sean and I enjoy the antique mall, the army surplus store, the music store, and the Corner Pharmacy cafe. It was lunchtime so we parked a couple of blocks down from our favorite shops and walked. I told Sean that I always forget how much I love the old architecture down there and that I'm always so pleased with how well they keep up with it.
Our first stop was our favorite antique store. We love it because it is huge and everything is completely affordable. Eventually I gave Sean the camera and let him take some photos. Something that a lot of people don't know about Sean is that he's a pretty great photographer, even though he will swear up and down that this is false. Maybe not good enough to do something with it but the angles he uses as well as the things he chooses to photograph, make for very interesting pictures. I will mark the ones below that are his.
Anyway, enough of all that. Here is the second part of our Wednesday date!
After the Big Red Barn in Weston, we made the fifteen minute drive out to Leavenworth, Kansas. Leavenworth is home to an army base and some awesome little antique shops and boutiques. Sean and I enjoy the antique mall, the army surplus store, the music store, and the Corner Pharmacy cafe. It was lunchtime so we parked a couple of blocks down from our favorite shops and walked. I told Sean that I always forget how much I love the old architecture down there and that I'm always so pleased with how well they keep up with it.
Our first stop was our favorite antique store. We love it because it is huge and everything is completely affordable. Eventually I gave Sean the camera and let him take some photos. Something that a lot of people don't know about Sean is that he's a pretty great photographer, even though he will swear up and down that this is false. Maybe not good enough to do something with it but the angles he uses as well as the things he chooses to photograph, make for very interesting pictures. I will mark the ones below that are his.
Sean didn't find anything from the antique store but I went home with Bill Cosby's first comedy album on vinyl and two 1960s Dr. Seuss books.
I've recently taken to collecting vintage (pre-1970s) children's books. Sean and I don't plan on having babies anytime soon, but I've been thinking how great it would be to build a collection of vintage books over the next few years so that we have them when we decide to grow our family. Until then, the books are wonderful and I am in love with the illustrations and colors. Maybe I will do a post about them sometime.
After the antique store, we walked across the street to the music shop. They do classes there, but they also have this awesome guitar room in the back where you can play or just look around.
So that was our date! After lunch, we drove home and Sean went to work, and while I wish we had more time to look around, we both enjoyed the time together. I'd like to plan more things like that for us to do. I think it's really easy to just go places rather than make a big deal about a date and exploring. Sean and I love to explore and see new things, so hopefully there will be more outings like this in our future.
I will be spending this weekend trying to get through my wisdom teeth pain (although, hot tea is actually helping a little) and working on some homework for the coming week.
I really can't believe it is November already and while I am usually very eager to put up my Christmas decorations as soon as this month rolls around, this year I am feeling a bit of a slowness which, I have decided, means I should take my time and enjoy things as they are and as they happen. I am looking forward to the end of the semester as well as Christmas break but there is time between then and now that I cannot just skip over and ignore. Maybe I will feel different in a few days and I will feel the push to put up my Christmas things and write off the fall season early for the year, but write now I am happy with November.
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
I thought it was hilarious that these two have the same looks on their faces. I pointed that out to Sean and he laughed and said that's exactly why he took the photos. I think you can always find bizarre things in antique stores if you look hard enough. Although, it was terrifyingly difficult to miss the one below.
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
Photo by Sean
We were pretty hungry after the music shop so of course we went to one of our favorite parts of Leavenworth: the Corner Pharmacy cafe. This cafe is amazing because the food is super cheap (84 cents for a bottomless cup of coffee, 1 dollar for eggs, 2 dollars for a large slice of pie, etc.) and it's actually pretty delicious for how cheap it is. Sean always says, "It's like they've kept all the prices from long ago!" And it totally is! I had a cheeseburger, onion rings, and a cream soda and Sean had a breakfast special with coffee. Our total was $12 or something like that.
I will be spending this weekend trying to get through my wisdom teeth pain (although, hot tea is actually helping a little) and working on some homework for the coming week.
I really can't believe it is November already and while I am usually very eager to put up my Christmas decorations as soon as this month rolls around, this year I am feeling a bit of a slowness which, I have decided, means I should take my time and enjoy things as they are and as they happen. I am looking forward to the end of the semester as well as Christmas break but there is time between then and now that I cannot just skip over and ignore. Maybe I will feel different in a few days and I will feel the push to put up my Christmas things and write off the fall season early for the year, but write now I am happy with November.
