books, books, books
Last week was an amazing event. Our local newspaper, The Times Colonist, runs a book sale every year to raise money for literacy and it is a very popular event. The idea is simple. You line up Saturday morning, and because we’re Canadian :p everyone politely files in and then swarms over 300,000 books. It’s absolutely amazing and mindblowing. It’s also the most exhausting few hours I’ve ever spent, trying to decide what to buy. See, the trick is, the books are cheap. Hardcovers are $3, paperbacks start at $1 each and I found myself just wandering and wandering picking up book after book. I finally had two boxes worth and had to take the time to sit and sort through them. I finally winnowed a few out of the pile and went to pay. More long lines and the joy of watching people with up to ten times the amount of books than me 
Finally I was done and I hauled my prizes home and when my husband woke up, we did it all over again. Cheap books are more than my willpower can stand, so we now have to buy another bookshelf soon, or we’re going to be stacking them on the floor. I took some pics of the wonderful chaos so you can get a sense of how big it was.
And my lovely husband:
