Okay, after much delay, here is my new coat and hat. It’s hard to see the details, sorry, so you’ll just have to take my word for it that it’s fabulous.

Here’s a close up of the collar. Sorry that I have no face, this is what happens when you try to take a picture of extremely pale skin in sunlight. I vanish.

I ought to apologize, I suppose, for introducing my political views into what has been a travelogue up to this point. We watched the last of the presidential debates last night (Kahlua taped it for us.) which was very exciting, even though we’ve all voted at this point. Then, on the way in to work this morning, they were interviewing this American woman on the radio. It was very distressing because her sole reason for disliking Kerry was that she didn’t know anything about him. If she had disagreed with his politics I would have been fine, but it horrified me that she had made no effort to learn anything about him.

So. Here, I’m providing information. And just to be fair, here’s the link to Bush’s website too. I’m not putting a banner up for him because I voted for Kerry.

And just to amuse you, here’s a site called Beta Vote. Its premise? What if the whole world could vote.