Books, Ice, Thrones

After church this past Sunday, we had to drop some books off at the Ithaca Library, and we walked down to the Commons. We read some books in this bookstore before leaving to look for ice.






The commons was full of ice sculptures. The girls hunted them down, and Susannah hugged them, one and all.


She loved this bird. ("Bahrd, I loooove you.")


But she didn't want to get on the throne. Her sisters had no such qualms.



They even smiled at the old lady who shuffled up and asked permission to take pictures of them.


Maybe it was the old lady who convinced Susannah that the throne was safe. Whatever the reason, she wanted in on the fun.


And look at that face-- FUN!!!!



The best part of the whole experience was when we finally returned our books to the library and serendipitously ran into Heidi and Squirrel. FUN!!!!!!!!! but, alas, I have no pictures.

And even though you might not read this, Heidi, I just now looked you up on Wikipedia and found out that "Ayla is described as tall, with blonde hair, gray-blue eyes, a well-toned body, and a strangely accented voice (actually a speech mannerism.) She has been raised with Clan customs, sign language instead of speech, not to laugh or smile, and not to cry. Almost every male character in the series finds Ayla exceptionally beautiful, though Ayla describes herself as "big and ugly." Another word frequently used to describe her is 'exotic', indicating that she seems a bit foreign to everyone who meets her, and that her own people live somewhere else."

And watch out for the cave lion!!! It will chase you into a narrow crack in a rock wall and rip open your leg, leaving four deep, parallel wounds on your thigh. (You can thank me later.)