Spring Break! Spring Break!

Good Lord, I didn't post at all last month. Okay, so blogging is one thing I am not accomplishing every day. I sewed a bridesmaids dress yesterday. I made another sample bodice to send to Leann, (the first was too small). I sewed Lil an Easter dress last Saturday from an old pattern of mine. So I am definitely sewing and enjoying it.

This past week I had a week off. We took an actual spring break trip which is a first for me. We went to Chicago and I enjoyed it and would go back. Maybe fewer museums next time, although I would go back to the Art Institute in a heartbeat. One of my favorite moments of this trip was climbing the staircase to the Impressionist galleries and seeing "Paris Street; Rainy Day" ahead. I was so thrilled I almost cried. Everywhere we went in that museum were paintings and artwork I was familiar with. It wasn't until we got home that I realized that the game "Masterpiece" used only artwork from the Art Institute of Chicago. I used these paintings to decorate my Barbie houses! (Apparently Al had this game too)

Just a word about the Shedd Aquarium's dolphin show. No, one word won't do it. Dissapointing? Hokey? Over-produced? Stupid? Yes, all of the above. The show is called Fantasea and pretends to pull a random girl out of the audience and about three seconds into that you realize that this girl is a plant. The trainers are dressed in these hideous costumes, they bring these panicked penguins down in front of the audience where hardly anyone can see them, they ask do you like Belugas? Do you like sea lions? And then there are neither sea lions or Belugas in the show. We really wanted to see the belugas and the new calf and his Mother were not on display...which I understand, but you couldn't provide a video camera for people to view them? After paying 30 bucks a person to get in? I really left the Shedd feeling ripped off. The whole audience was like..."That was it? We paid extra for that?" I wonder if Second City does a parody of this show...they should, it was so terrible.

I needed Friday as a mental health day (read: totally lazy do nothing day) and then I felt like sewing again. I have to wake up early if I'm going to sew. If I sleep past nine, the day is shot and I've lost all motivation. I am definitely an early morning type of person.

So tomorrow is back to work and I am sort of motivated to get my butt in gear for Summer Reading Program. Oh so much to do. And oh so much to do at home. It will get done.