I bought the first Cheburashka plushie in 2014. It was one of those rare Decembers when I had some spare money in the bank. sirius20_81 and her family had a pretty tough year, and I wanted to get something nice for her youngest daughter, Sera. I couldn't get anything too fancy, but I figured I could get something unique, something she wasn't likely to get ( Read more... )

In the early October, midwesterners got a chance to do something they haven't been able to do since the early 1970s - take the train from Madison, WI to Chicago (and vice versa ( Read more... )