Book Signing, Chalk Drawings, Turkey, Spoons, Dim Sum

The Saturday after Thanksgiving. I went to pick up Jason at his first book signing gig. It was at the Geneva Historical Society. When I arrived I got the most handsome author there to sign a book of his own poetry, gushing the entire time how much I loved his poetry. The author asked me out on a date. Jason did not get jealous, because this was of course him. I arrived a little early and Jason suggested I go for a little walk up and down the main drag of Geneva, to see some interesting chalk drawings on the sidewalk. Apparently during the night someone had come and written anti-commercialism messages on the sidewalks in pink chalk. Many of them had been erased, but they left "Love is Free" and "Save the Planet -- Save Your Money".

From there we drove to my aunt and uncle's house in Lansing where we Thanksgiving-ed with my dad's rather large and boisterous family. The night ended with the family tradition of playing spoons around the super long table in the basement. There were minimal injuries this year, though one person did leap over the table and do a nose-dive to grab a spoon off the floor that had fallen.

Then on Sunday we went to Chicago to meet up with some old/new friends. Kelly got reconnected with an old high school friend using Facebook, and we met up with her and her husband in the city. We got a "This Old House" style tour of their historic home that they are in the process of restoring, met their two sweet cats, and headed to Chinatown. We had Dim Sum for the first time, Sara's husband leading us through the ordering of delicious dumplings and such including the mysterious "shark fin" flavored ones, and then got a taste of Pearl Tea with tapioca pearls, yum. Sara and Brooke also introduced us to their Wii. Jason won boxing Kelly, and she thought the pain of losing would be the end of it, but the next day her arms hurt a heck of a lot. A good time was had by all.