The Nine Star Story
My summer break has been going by well; it’s almost over though. I’ll be starting summer courses in July. So far I’ve been in between Houston and San Marcos.
The fist two weeks I was at home relaxing; reading, watching, and backing-up computer files. So it felt like a very sluggish month. I got to finish reading Larklight, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. They were a great read; maybe fantastic movies in the future.
Then from June 6-9 I went to Chicago with my mom, dad, and sister. We drove rather than flying since it was a spur of the moment choice to have a trip. Well it took around 19 hours which got very tiring and a bit uncomfortable. I did get to start listening to my Twilight audio book, but never got to finish it. Well when we got there we ordered a Chicago style pizza that was just as good as I imagined. The next day we went downtown to roam around.
I wanted to just go to the Museum of Contemporary Art. The Jeff Koons exhibit was and is showing. Most of Koons work was a bit eccentric, but amazing to see. I enjoyed the collection a little bit more, because I got to see some of Alexander Calder’s mobiles and a Magdalena Abakanowicz piece. Calder and Abakanowicz were two artists I studied last semester.
Then my dad and I went to a Border’s while my mom and sister went around shopping. Later on we went to a “hypermarket” called Meijer. It felt like a mixture of all the other stores we have here in Texas. It was cool: I found a few houndstooth things, and bought a box of Jujubes. I really liked Chicago; I’ll have to go back one day and actually see more of the town. It wasn’t a very got weekend to go since there was a bit of bad weather. We left the next morning.