No Stitching But Still a Fun Weekend!

I haven't stitched since last Sunday (bad Karen!) but I had a great weekend this week in spite of it! My guy and I went to the motorcycle show at the Washington, D.C., convention center yesterday. It's a huge 3-day event with displays by manufacturers and vendors and full of things of interest to motorcycle buffs such as my guy, as well as to people who hang around with motorcycle buffs, such as myself :-) This is one of the cool bikes that was on display; the entire thing was painted with this type of Aztec or Mayan design. It was actually quite pretty.It was raining in Virginia this morning, still raining there when I left, and raining when I got back to Pittsburgh. That's not a complaint; it's way better than snow! We did a little exploring (translation: got kind of lost) this morning, trying to find a good place for lunch. We ended up at a restaurant in Alexandria, not far from National Airport, and had a couple of delicious burgers.

I managed to get a book read this week! It's a novella, only a hundred pages long, called The Seafarers, by Nevil Shute. If you're not familiar with Shute's work, he's most well-known for On the Beach (far from my favorite of his, but that's just MHO) and A Town Like Alice. I had never even heard of The Seafarers until I read about it a couple of weeks ago on a Shute website. It was found amoung his papers and published around 2002, some 40+ years after his death. Barnes & Noble was able to scare up a copy for me and it was a very enjoyable read. Now it's back to Devil In a Blue Dress.

Wishing everyone a good Monday and a better week!