I am such an American....

Yesterday I did what all Americans do on their weekends...I went outlet shopping. I went with some friends to the garlic capital of the world, Gilroy, CA. It smells of garlic everywhere and you can buy all things garlic. There are things made of garlic you would never dream of....garlic paste, garlic ice cream...garlic, garlic, garlic. I love garlic but they take it a little far there. Once a year they have a garlic festival. Evidently it is huge.

We also went to a roadside attraction called Casa de Fruta. It was at one time a simple farm stand which has turned into a theme park complete with a petting zoo and steam train. They had all kinds of garlic and olives and fruit and nuts and stuff like that. So I bought some of that. They also had a wine tasting room so we got slightly buzzed on the free wine. I bought a bottle of a delicious blackberry wine. Yummm.

We stopped at a roadside restaurant on the way home for mexican food. It was excellent. I love divey mexican restaurants. That is one thing I love about California. Excellent mexican food. Got home at about 11:00 and then stayed up chatting with Khylea until about 3:45am. I am wrecked today. I blame her. All her fault.

That was a fun day. Today it will be hot so I am going to go swimming at the swim club and then to the bookstore. I want to get a new Tolkien reference...The Shaping of the Middle Earth. I am woefully ignorant on my LOTR knowledge so I need to study up. I feel like everyone knows more than I do. Perhaps I should read my copy of Morgoth's Ring.

So that is it for now. Just a quick update for you all. I have discovered the beauty of say_aye's artwork how lovely and also the Theban Band's web site. Wowsa.