Season of Many Adventures & Our 1st Adventure: The Liberry

The Season of Many Adventures

Rusty and I like fun.  But, like many couples I assume, we sometimes fall into routine.  So we have devised A PLAN! A plan to keep the fun in relationfunship!  Wait... is that not how...?  Nevermind.  At any rate, we are going to embark on a journey of adventures.  The rules are simple. And they're more just guidelines, really.  

1.  We must get out of the house. 
2.   We must do something we wouldn't normally do. And if we do something we normally do, we have to put  some sort of spin on it to make it not so normal.
3.   It doesn't have to be elaborate or expensive.
4.   We must take pictures.
5.   We have to plan it as an adventure.  We can't say, go to a party and then just count it. 
6.   We will each take turns planning and go on as many adventures as we can muster to prevent us from becoming one of those boring couples.
7.   We must have delightful, cheery attitudes about whatever the other person has planned. (Ahem, Rusty.)

So away we go!  A note to other friends, couples, whoevers: We are totally open to sharing adventures so if you are interested in having one with us, see above rules (guidelines), come along, and enjoy the ride!!

Our 1st Adventure: The Liberry

Salt Lake City Library of Awesomeness

Today I took my Rustykins on an adventure to the Salt Lake City Liberry. For any of you who are not familiar with this incredible establishment, you are Lamesauce McGee!  This place is so full of adventures, we could probably fill our whole season with it. 

Our destination: Children's section

Our mission: To each find a book that had personal meaning and read it to the other!

An illustrator I find amusing is Gris Grimly.  I selected a book written by Neil Gaiman called The Dangerous Alphabet.  I guess the emo side of me gets a thrill out of this guy because he draws the most creepy, twisted illustrations.  I've always had a weird fascination with books that stray a little to the weird side. The preface of The Dangerous Alphabet reads:

The Dangerous Alphabet is a tale of  piracy, danger,

and heroism told in twenty-six alphabetical lines-- although

 the alphabet is NOT to be relied on here.

The preface speaks truth, as V and W are in the wrong order, and many of the letters don't even stand for what the say they do. For example, "C is the way that we find and we look." Here's a picture of me not even reading the right book.  (But it is another Gris Grimly sinister selection, Boris and Bella.)

Rusty loves I Spy books.  Like, loves them so much, he'd probably marry them if he could.  One of the co-authors, Walter Wick, has a spin off series called Can You See What I See? It is a wealth of search-and-find goodness.  We spent the greater part of our liberry time looking for skulls in clouds or thimbles in tiny village scenes.  I guess we had an unformulated theme here because we set our spying sights on Walter Wick's On a Scary Scary Night.  I was really impressed with Rusty's selection, we could've spent many more hours working on each page, and what cooler way to spend time together?  We got so excited when one or the other found a particularly well hidden broom, or upon discovering that "find 3 bats" meant 2 animal bats and 1 baseball bat.  Pure awesome.  I think I shall make it a point to collect this series for... eh, probably just to entertain the nieces and nephews, let's be honest here.

 

All in all, adventure #1 was a great success!  We had a grand old time at the library, and I highly recommend taking your kiddos or selves to enjoy the many wonders of the Children's Section-- books, it turns out, are just the beginning.  Rusty remarked as we left that it was too bad the parking meter had run out, he would've  loved to stay and wile away the rest of the afternoon. And I quite agreed.