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Monday, October 03, 2005
Rainy morning in Gainesville
As I sit and watch the rain this gray morning I think of Illinois. My friends there say its getting cool. Nights are especially crisp, they say. Here in Gainesville its still hot and humid. The heat has broken a bit, not in the high 90's anymore, but it still gets pretty dang hot by afternoon. Jen gets to go back to Illinois this weekend and enjoy that early fall air.
Last night we went to "Chocolate Night" at Sweet Dreams, the only local ice cream place. There are all the usual chains, Coldstone, Marble Slab, etc but they can't even touch Sweet Dreams. The owner makes ALL of the ice cream homemade on sight. They usually have all kinds of crazy flavors along with the usuals. Once every couple months they have a chocolate night when they have only chocolate ice creams and special events. Last night we went with some friends from church. They had 30 flavors, all with chocolate. Jen and I tried the chocolate hazelnut, chocolate peanut butter, chocolate with 'dulce de leche' (a latin american sweet), and chocolate espresso. They had other flavors like chocolate Jack Daniels fudge, chocolate cherry amaretto, Mayan Mexican chocolate, chocolate cookie bar, and many others. They had live music which was wonderful, a jazz-folk singer with a Norah Jones sound. Then later in the night they were showing a movie, chocolate themed of course. Pretty cool thing if you ask me, even though I'm not a big chocolate fan. Jen, however, was quite pumped.
Yesterday afternoon we went to the Art Show at Thornebrook. It is a yearly show that is held at this shopping complex called Thornebrook. The complex is full of specialty shops like gourmet foods, a couple restaurants, jewelry stores, art stores, clothing boutiques, a gourmet candy store and stuff like that. There were probably 50 or more artists with booths set up. They were all Florida artists, mostly from this area. Just about every medium was present from all types of paints to photography, pottery, woodworking and scultpure. It's great to live in a college town with lots of neat stuff like that!
Hope you're all doing well!
-joel
Last night we went to "Chocolate Night" at Sweet Dreams, the only local ice cream place. There are all the usual chains, Coldstone, Marble Slab, etc but they can't even touch Sweet Dreams. The owner makes ALL of the ice cream homemade on sight. They usually have all kinds of crazy flavors along with the usuals. Once every couple months they have a chocolate night when they have only chocolate ice creams and special events. Last night we went with some friends from church. They had 30 flavors, all with chocolate. Jen and I tried the chocolate hazelnut, chocolate peanut butter, chocolate with 'dulce de leche' (a latin american sweet), and chocolate espresso. They had other flavors like chocolate Jack Daniels fudge, chocolate cherry amaretto, Mayan Mexican chocolate, chocolate cookie bar, and many others. They had live music which was wonderful, a jazz-folk singer with a Norah Jones sound. Then later in the night they were showing a movie, chocolate themed of course. Pretty cool thing if you ask me, even though I'm not a big chocolate fan. Jen, however, was quite pumped.
Yesterday afternoon we went to the Art Show at Thornebrook. It is a yearly show that is held at this shopping complex called Thornebrook. The complex is full of specialty shops like gourmet foods, a couple restaurants, jewelry stores, art stores, clothing boutiques, a gourmet candy store and stuff like that. There were probably 50 or more artists with booths set up. They were all Florida artists, mostly from this area. Just about every medium was present from all types of paints to photography, pottery, woodworking and scultpure. It's great to live in a college town with lots of neat stuff like that!
Hope you're all doing well!
-joel
Ok, Joel and Jen, you might have to let me know when the next chocolate night is at Sweet Dreams. It might be worth a drive from Birmingham to experience that!!! Isn't it fun to explore a new city? Dad and I had a new experience Sunday night - we went to Jazz Vespers at Southside Baptist Church near downtown.. It was really cool. Just lasted an hour, very informal, free coffee and soft drinks, a little religious jazz - Precious Lord, Take My Hand and What a Friend, but the rest was all "secular" stuff - mostly unidentifiable tunes to me since I don't know jazz, but I bet you would have recognized them. The 5 piece ensemble was very good. So much culture to experience here. We often say, "Joel and Jen would love this...." Love, MOM
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