Adventure!

We had our first adventure of the season! My sweetheart had a low census day and I had errands near there, so we went to the city and picked him up. Our city has an amazing library. The outside of the building is pretty amazing all by itself. It is a modern building bigger in the middle than on the top and than the bottom. Lots and lots of windows cover the whole thing. And the parking garage is very, very low. I wasn't sure if we were going to make it. I could easily touch the ceiling in places! But we did.

We went up to the ninth floor in a shiny chartreuse elevator. At the top there was a look out point that allowed us to see all the way down to the bottom. The look wasn't bad, but the floor seemed to be a little spongy and unstable giving me a vertigo feeling. Then we started going down. The books in the non-fiction section goes around in a large spiral, each hundred section of the Dewey decimal system on one floor. That is a lot of books. Sprinkled through out are reading areas full of people. I could spend days and days in there. There was an entire floor full of old bound magazines. There were books with ancient bindings and books that were brand new. We didn't even get into the adult fiction area because the children's section was so amazing. It was bigger than our entire library. Unfortunately, the littlest was done and it was time to go home.

There were a few things we saw that made me wish I had a camera. The color of the walls in the elevators, the freaky art display on the walls of the escalator, all the feet under the chairs as we went around and around the spiral, all the art pieces in the children's section. The belt system that takes the books being turned in to where ever they go to be reshelved was pretty darn cool too. The man who checked our books out was impressed by our choice of books. They ranged from how to juggle to the who universe books. He was pretty darned impressive too. His hair was pretty cool.

In another life, I would have been a librarian. I LOVE books. I love how books smell and feel. I am fascinated by the things that people choose to write about. I love the way they look all lined up in rows and rows. I love fiction and non-fiction. I love books on cd or books filled with pictures. Easy readers to books filled with tiny words all fascinate me. Some day when I am rich and famous or at least rich, I'm going to have a library full of my favorite books. Until then, I think I may sneak back to the city by myself and spend the day in the stacks.

p.s. There must be a comicon going on to cuz my sweetheart thought he saw Ohura in the library and we saw someone in an amime costume and a giant samuri sword on his back.