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Gone Camping
July 15, 2004

We were wandering about BJ’s yesterday when we ran into the miniature tents on the display rack for the tent sales. An idea occurred to me - I suggested to Berta that we take a tent to visit your aunt’s cabin in the poconos. Abby would surely like sleeping outside, it would be a nice little adventure for the three of us, and would surely be better than vieing for space in her aunt’s little cabin with the rest of Berta’s sisters.

So we walked over to Dick’s Sporting Goods (since the tents at BJ’s all stunk) and looked around over there. They had a kit that included a tent, 2 sleeping bags, 2 folding chairs, a lantern, and some other junk all stuffed into a large Rubbermaid-like tub. That was $200. In an effort to get exactly what we wanted and save a little cash, we decided to get everything separately instead.

Wawa Oddities
July 14, 2004

Normally, I have a decent time shopping at Wawa. I’ve been preturbed lately, though. Apparently, the Wawa in Thorndale has some wacky thing going on all the time there that causes the employees to meet in a huddle in the front of the store near the meat case. I suppose that’s fine if it’s store business and all, but here must have ben six employees in uniform there. When the meeting dispersed, none of them went back to work.

Instead, I was left to stand in line with a clerk who didn’t know how to reset the register after a purchase. I overpaid (as you always do at Wawa) for my sandwich, which only had one tomato, and it was on top of the lettuce, which was on top of the meat. Again. It sits there on top and collects all of the salt and pepper. So after you take the first bite into such a sandwich, you have not salt, pepper, or tomato, because you have to swallow the tomato (and everything covering it) in one bite so that the rest of the tomato slice doesn’t fall off the sandwich.

Cirque Du Soleil Alegria
July 13, 2004

On Sunday, the five of us (me, Berta, Abby, Mom, and Nana) went into Philly to see Alegria, one of the touring Cirque Du Soleil shows. This marks my fifth unique Cirque show, having seen “O”, La Nouba, Dralion, and Varekai.

Qibla Direction
July 12, 2004

The book I’m reading now (last of the the triolgy that Jen got me for my birthday, Kushiel’s Avatar) has a lot of religion in it. Actually, the whole trilogy was steeped in ficticious religions of different kinds.

The book takes place in a world sort of like ours - an alternate Renaissance. In place of France is Terre D’Ange, the homeland of the main character. She travels all over the place, mainly in what we would call Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A good portion of this third book takes place in Africa.