Trains, planes, automobiles, and a few books

This summer Paul and I went on Vacation for 6 weeks. We went to Wyoming for a week and a half, drove to Washington, flew to New York, then went back to Washington for about 2 weeks. Paul went on his first subway this summer, he was nervous, but after getting on the wrong way the first time, it was easy and Paul decided it was the way to do it... too bad that decision was made on our last day ;) Our flights were... okay.... I'm not the biggest fan of flying... but it was decent- plus we got $600 in flight vouchers. We also drove around 5,000 miles round trip (not counting the driving we did in New York, including my driving through Times Square-AHHH!!!!) :)

Paul and I on the Staten Island Ferry

 

Traveling around I had SOME time to read, but surpringly not much.  I finished re-reading the Harry Potter series, then read the Anne of Green Gables series.  I really liked it.  I had read the first one seveal years ago but read the whole series (minus the second short-essay book).  I really liked 1-4 and 6.  It's a Canadian Series from the 1800's and early 1900's.  Definitely a good series if you've never read them.

 

I am currently reading Beautiful Joe by M. Marshall.  It's another book from the 1800s.  I bought this book in July because I had read it when I was growing up several times.  Enough times, that the cover fell off... But, I found a used bookstore in Tacoma and bought my Mom another copy of the book.  This book was written before Black Beauty and is a book to help bring animal cruelty to life, because there weren't many animal rights at the time.  Still a good book, but I can see the preachy/political agenda now that I didn't notice when I was a kid.