Saturday Afternoon Chat is what it sounds like — a post to chat about what’s been going on or, well, anything I and you want to chat about. You can also feel free to leave links to similar posts or to a post you want to get some extra eyes on at the bottom of this post.

Welcome to our Saturday Afternoon Chat. So glad you are here to chat with me because during the week I mostly chat to my pets and my 10-year-old daughter and sometimes neither of them respond to me. Huh.

Well, anyhow, it’s nice to have some adults to chat with.

Last Sunday The Husband, Little Miss, and I traveled to a small tourist town year us after we found out there was a small, used bookstore there.

The store ended up being bigger than I thought and it was extremely cozy and inviting.

I can’t believe we have lived here for five years and I had no idea the store was there!

The town it is located in starts to get active in the spring and summer because most of the residents have summer homes there along the lake.

Our county is made up mainly of state game land that is full of cabins and hiking trails. This town was built probably 100 years ago as a getaway for residents of the city. Yes, many of those residents are fairly wealthy, so there is definitely a different feel to this town than others in our county.

There is a beach along the lake in the town, but it is only accessible to members or those who stay at the local inns in town, so, yes, it is an exclusive beach.

The bookstore was not exclusive to members, though, so we were free to visit it, look through the books, and even buy some.

What drew us to the store this past weekend was the beginning of summer sale where the owner places select books out front and in a room in the back and marks them at either $1.50 or $3.

There were plenty of books to choose from in those sections but there were also very many reasonably priced books throughout the three rooms of the store.

Of course, the section that most excited me was the children’s section because this is where she had a nice, small selection of Nancy Drew books. I only owned one or two of them and wanted all 17 of them, but we (okay The Husband) had established a budget for all of our purchases so I ended up only grabbing one. The newer editions, and even some of the older ones, were about $5 each, with the larger reprints of the original text priced at $8.50.

Little Miss chose the one I purchased, The Clue of the Velvet Mask.

It looks like the blob is coming up behind Nancy.

I really hope to be able to head back there soon and snatch up a few more.

She also had some vintage books, lovely collector’s editions, new books, history books, art books, mysteries, and so much more.

I could have spent the entire afternoon in there simply exploring.

After we left the bookstore, The Husband and Little Miss grabbed an ice cream cone at the Sweet Shop, a small restaurant and ice cream stand in town. From there we headed to the boat launch of the lake and took a few photos.

We drove by the beach area of the lake, but, again, since we were not members, we were not allowed to visit it.

On the way out of town, we stopped at the reserve, which features a walking trail and a 18th-century log cabin. During other times, the cabin is open and features a mini-museum and local historical information.

The rest of last weekend was spent with family, including a friend of The Boy’s, to celebrate The Boy graduating from technical school.

On Monday, we spent the day at my parents, reading books on their porch/deck, eating chicken spiedies, and the kids took a golf cart ride over the hill with my dad.

The rest of the week was fairly uneventful and not worth writing about. Yesterday we drove to pick up groceries. Ooh…so very exciting. Ha!

Tomorrow Little Miss will start attending a VBS about 20 minutes from our house. It’s going to be going on each evening for five nights.

How was your week last week? Do anything exciting? Go anywhere fun? Let me know in the comments.

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Come back tomorrow for Sunday Bookends, where I chat about what I’ve been reading, watching, listening to, doing and share some favorite photos and links from around the blog community.