Something New : The King County Library Edition

I saw this sign in the Las Vegas airport and it kind of made me laugh. I immediately took a picture of it and texted it to my friend Katherine bcause she truly does believe libraries are amazing and I thought she would find it funny too! That being said, I haven't been to a library since college - Heidi and I actually spent a LOT of time in the library at college but I can't say we borrowed a lot of books, we mostly just giggled in the Internet cafe and tried to do our homework which we usually failed at and then went to our respective rooms to get something done.

I realized a couple weeks ago how much money Eric and I spend in Borders or Barnes and Nobel on books that we're interested in reading. It's just silly. The King Country Library circuit is actually pretty amazing. You can put any book on hold that the library owns and they will send it to your local library for you to pick up. So If the Des Moines library doesn't have it - some other library may and they send it over to Des Moines for you to pick up. We have been meaning to make it to the library for the past week and haven't been successful- and as we were coming home from breakfast with Ivan and Dawn at Calamity Janes we just swung in the drive to check it out.

I still don't have my library card because I ordered it online but Eric still has his and it still works - and he hasn't used it hardly at all. But we checked out a couple books and were on our way, I'm looking forward to using the facility's more often.

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