We drove to Burbank, IL today...Bob wanted to find Harbor Freight - you can take him out of Washington, but there'd better be a hardware store around. Home Depot isn't too far from here, but that's just not the same thing as Harbor Freight. (Now, that's home away from home for Bob.)
I got to thinking about different place names in different cities that are hard (or at least not intuitive) for strangers to pronounce. Like, at home we have Kalaloch or Puyallup (most tourists and visitors miss those completely). In New York, they have Houston Street. Now, of course, for the rest of the country, H O U S T O N spells out HYOUston, like the city in Texas. But in NYC, of course, it's HOWston. Here, it's Paulina. Should be easy, right? PaulEEEna, the way the rest of us would pronounce it. But, nooooo, here in Chi-town, it's PaulEYEna. Like I said, not intuitive.
The heat is back up to 90 this afternoon.....we're hoping for some relief tonight. Tomorrow Bob and I are going to the farmer's market in Daley Plaza (downtown Chicago). We went there several years ago when Douglas and Stacy lived here. So I'm looking forward to some great produce tomorrow.
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