I'll post soon! Like, guaranteed before Thursday and probably sooner, but I can't guarantee sooner. =-> I've just been partying all weekend and I haven't been up here on the computer much because it's been so hot upstairs, especially in the computer room because it generates so much heat. But I'll get on the ball tomorrow or Wednesday, answer my e-mails, get back on track.
I must say though, (so maybe this isn't such a fake post,) I've had so much fun partying this weekend! Sunday was awesome, I haven't gotten to just hang out and have fun like that for tooooo long! So thank you thank you everyone who could come, and everyone who couldn't, call me/e-mail me/talk to me and we'll get together! :-D Then today was second verse, same as the first, but this time with family and shopping. :-D And a little less mafia--ok, no mafia. But sunday definitely made up for it. =->
Enough of a post for you? I gotta go to bed, so I hope so!
5.29.2006
5.12.2006
LAUGH.
http://www.whiteboydj.com/babygotbook.html
go here, it's so funny...if you like rap, I guess. The funny thing is my Bible's pretty small. But it's getting "worn and torn."
go here, it's so funny...if you like rap, I guess. The funny thing is my Bible's pretty small. But it's getting "worn and torn."
5.08.2006
The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly I
The Good
We went to DC for 4 days! I'll try not to include every little morbid detail, but I am going to include quite a lot of them, so bear with me, because this is going to be a LONG series of posts.
Thursday: We drove in, which was really pretty boring and I have nothing to say about it except three things. 1. We listened to Magician’s Nephew on CD—very interesting, what with all the allegory. 2. I did about 3 Sudokus. 3. A vacation is not a vacation without coke icees!! They rock!
Thursday evening we drove into DC and went to a bunch of memorials: The Washington Monument, which is HUGE. I mean, HUGE. When you get up close to it and look up, you pretty much can’t see anything else. I really liked how you could see it from everywhere.
Then we made our way to the WW2 memorial, which was really cool: lots of fountains and running water, and pillars with all of the states’ names on them. I liked how they had famous quotes from that time all over it too. There were Middle schoolers (probably 8th graders) EVERYWHERE.
We hiked up to the Korean war memorial, which has statues of men in gear with really expressive looks on their faces. There was also a sort of fountain, a flat fountain I guess, with “Freedom is not free” above it.
Next on the route was dear old Abe. The Lincoln memorial is really huge! Ginormous! Again, there were tons of school kids, and so many flashing cameras you would’ve thought Lincoln was a celebrity on the red carpet! Hannah and I acted out the scene from National Treasure that’s on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and just as we were both saying, “Not SHOULDN’T, be done, it CAN’T, be done,” a gaggle of girls walked up and asked if they could get a picture with us. “Uh, sure…?” Our best guess is either that they were doing a scavenger hunt (not likely) or that they wanted a picture with the crazy girls re-enacting National Treasure (not very likely either).
Then we went to the Vietnam Memorial, with the looooooooong wall. It was ridiculously long. With an incomprehensible number of names, it was just too much to even take in, much less to imagine all the men and all the families.
That was pretty much Thursday.
Comment at will. :-D
We went to DC for 4 days! I'll try not to include every little morbid detail, but I am going to include quite a lot of them, so bear with me, because this is going to be a LONG series of posts.
Thursday: We drove in, which was really pretty boring and I have nothing to say about it except three things. 1. We listened to Magician’s Nephew on CD—very interesting, what with all the allegory. 2. I did about 3 Sudokus. 3. A vacation is not a vacation without coke icees!! They rock!
Thursday evening we drove into DC and went to a bunch of memorials: The Washington Monument, which is HUGE. I mean, HUGE. When you get up close to it and look up, you pretty much can’t see anything else. I really liked how you could see it from everywhere.
Then we made our way to the WW2 memorial, which was really cool: lots of fountains and running water, and pillars with all of the states’ names on them. I liked how they had famous quotes from that time all over it too. There were Middle schoolers (probably 8th graders) EVERYWHERE.
We hiked up to the Korean war memorial, which has statues of men in gear with really expressive looks on their faces. There was also a sort of fountain, a flat fountain I guess, with “Freedom is not free” above it.
Next on the route was dear old Abe. The Lincoln memorial is really huge! Ginormous! Again, there were tons of school kids, and so many flashing cameras you would’ve thought Lincoln was a celebrity on the red carpet! Hannah and I acted out the scene from National Treasure that’s on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and just as we were both saying, “Not SHOULDN’T, be done, it CAN’T, be done,” a gaggle of girls walked up and asked if they could get a picture with us. “Uh, sure…?” Our best guess is either that they were doing a scavenger hunt (not likely) or that they wanted a picture with the crazy girls re-enacting National Treasure (not very likely either).
Then we went to the Vietnam Memorial, with the looooooooong wall. It was ridiculously long. With an incomprehensible number of names, it was just too much to even take in, much less to imagine all the men and all the families.
That was pretty much Thursday.
Comment at will. :-D
The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly II
Friday
We rode the metro in to DC. It wasn’t a smooth ride, but at first I couldn’t tell when we went up or down or turned corners, just because it was so wobbly the rest of the time too. I also got very good at riding escalators in and out of the metro stations. Some of you may not know this, but I used to be afraid of riding escalators, especially down. Once when I was little I stepped on with one foot and not the other and almost fell down the steps, so I haven’t liked them too much since.
We started out the day at the American History Museum. It was a lot more interesting, since we had just read all about most of this stuff. We saw a copy of the Declaration, one of the original 30 or something. It was very interesting, because it was a lot clearer than the real one and you could examine it at your leisure. We also saw videos about the presidents, very interesting, especially one that interviewed the last few presidents about the presidency—Ford, Bush Sr., Reagan, Clinton, etc. I think I forgot one. Anyway, we started making our way to the Capitol after eating at Subway, but we made quite a few detours on the way. We stopped at the National Archives and saw the real Declaration and the Constitution, etc. They were amazingly faded, I mean, I know they’re 250 years old and all, but having just seen a copy I didn’t expect them to be so weathered. We walked through a bit of the National Gallery of Art, which was really exciting—we saw so many of the pictures we’ve seen in books. Like, Renoir’s A Girl with a Watering Can, and one of a dancer; two of Monet’s Rouen Cathedral Series, a Japanese bridge, and a sunset. There was also a whole exhibit of Cezanne that had a mile long line the next day—we just buzzed through and didn’t think it was all that impressive. What was the other exciting one? Hmm, can’t remember. Oh, Renoir's Oarsmen at Chateu or something like that, names don't mean much to me! We did see Cassat’s painting of the two chubby toddlers playing in the sand on the beach, that one was cool.
Anyway, we walked past the white house too. It would be SO. WEIRD. to live there.
I think those are all of our detours. When we finally made it to the Capitol, we just sat on the wall in front of it and looked at it and ate our snacks and relaxed awhile. I quite liked that part of the day.
We took the metro back to the hotel and ate a small dinner at Applebee’s. Nothing too extraordinary.
Keep going! I suggest you read these one a day, or you're going to get bored. haha. I don't expect any extraordinary commments, but I would like to know who all read this! You get extra Katie points if you do!
We rode the metro in to DC. It wasn’t a smooth ride, but at first I couldn’t tell when we went up or down or turned corners, just because it was so wobbly the rest of the time too. I also got very good at riding escalators in and out of the metro stations. Some of you may not know this, but I used to be afraid of riding escalators, especially down. Once when I was little I stepped on with one foot and not the other and almost fell down the steps, so I haven’t liked them too much since.
We started out the day at the American History Museum. It was a lot more interesting, since we had just read all about most of this stuff. We saw a copy of the Declaration, one of the original 30 or something. It was very interesting, because it was a lot clearer than the real one and you could examine it at your leisure. We also saw videos about the presidents, very interesting, especially one that interviewed the last few presidents about the presidency—Ford, Bush Sr., Reagan, Clinton, etc. I think I forgot one. Anyway, we started making our way to the Capitol after eating at Subway, but we made quite a few detours on the way. We stopped at the National Archives and saw the real Declaration and the Constitution, etc. They were amazingly faded, I mean, I know they’re 250 years old and all, but having just seen a copy I didn’t expect them to be so weathered. We walked through a bit of the National Gallery of Art, which was really exciting—we saw so many of the pictures we’ve seen in books. Like, Renoir’s A Girl with a Watering Can, and one of a dancer; two of Monet’s Rouen Cathedral Series, a Japanese bridge, and a sunset. There was also a whole exhibit of Cezanne that had a mile long line the next day—we just buzzed through and didn’t think it was all that impressive. What was the other exciting one? Hmm, can’t remember. Oh, Renoir's Oarsmen at Chateu or something like that, names don't mean much to me! We did see Cassat’s painting of the two chubby toddlers playing in the sand on the beach, that one was cool.
Anyway, we walked past the white house too. It would be SO. WEIRD. to live there.
I think those are all of our detours. When we finally made it to the Capitol, we just sat on the wall in front of it and looked at it and ate our snacks and relaxed awhile. I quite liked that part of the day.
We took the metro back to the hotel and ate a small dinner at Applebee’s. Nothing too extraordinary.
Keep going! I suggest you read these one a day, or you're going to get bored. haha. I don't expect any extraordinary commments, but I would like to know who all read this! You get extra Katie points if you do!
The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly III
Saturday:
Second verse, same as the first, a little bit longer and…about the same. :-D This time we started at the Air and Space Museum, saw the Spirit of St. Louis and some cool exhibits on the Planets. Then we started wandering around DC again, usually with a purpose. I can’t really remember what order we did these in, but we went back to the Art museum to see Georgia O’Keeffe paintings. We just finished studying her. We also saw Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de Benci, which I’ve also examined in a book. It’s a portrait of a bored looking girl, the only Leonardo portrait in America. It was pretty cool—it didn’t look like a painting, but neither like a photograph. Georgia O’Keeffe’s were SO COOL. They were the Jack-in-the-Pulpits, 2-6. They were HUGE. I really like her style of painting. If I painted, which I don’t intend to, my style would be like hers a bit or a lot.
We visited the Botanical Gardens, mostly because we ended up there. That was pretty cool, to see all those different plants in one place, and all different places too—a jungle in one room, and a desert in the next. Needless to say, I loved seeing all the sweet cacti in the desert room. The flowers were GORGEOUS, definitely worth the stop.
We went to the Natural History museum and saw a million animals. I don’t know how God thought of all of them! That was pretty sweet, and then we went to the gems and stones section and saw the Hope diamond, which was spectacular for a diamond but nothing compared to all the sparkling crystals in the next exhibit! Those were seriously magnificent, I don’t care if they’re pretty common, they were huge and sparkly. Some were just giant jewel-type-things, some were plain looking rocks that had a portion cut away to show the crystals coating the inside (never judge a rock by its cover). Some looked like mini sculptures, like something you’d see on the streets of DC (they have these random, abstract sculptures every few blocks). One looked like a painting of a tree, surprisingly enough. I really really liked that section.
After the Natural History museum, we were about done in, so we went back to the American History museum to sit outside and rest like we did at the capitol on Friday. That was quite nice too; we bought an ornament at the last second from the gift shop so that we’ll have something to remember our trip by every year. We stopped at Arlington Cemetery on the way home, it’s a stop on the metro so it was right on our way. It was about to close, so we only stayed 15 minutes and didn’t get very far in at all, but the amount of headstones and crosses was still astounding. Especially when you imagined a man standing in place of each one, that is a multitude of people.
Sunday:
We had only a couple more things we wanted to see: The FDR memorial, and the Thomas Jefferson memorial. Like so many other things on this trip, we stumbled across the George Mason memorial as well. He drafted the Articles of Confederation, which was the pre-government of America that didn’t work out so well. The FDR memorial was quite nice, quotes and waterfalls everywhere. I think he probably would’ve rolled over in his grave if he knew how much it cost, I think it was something like $42 million. I could have that completely wrong, but I think it sounds right.
That was our awesome amazing superlative trip to DC. The weather was wonderful the whole time!! Everything worked perfectly, without even having any major disasters!
Second verse, same as the first, a little bit longer and…about the same. :-D This time we started at the Air and Space Museum, saw the Spirit of St. Louis and some cool exhibits on the Planets. Then we started wandering around DC again, usually with a purpose. I can’t really remember what order we did these in, but we went back to the Art museum to see Georgia O’Keeffe paintings. We just finished studying her. We also saw Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de Benci, which I’ve also examined in a book. It’s a portrait of a bored looking girl, the only Leonardo portrait in America. It was pretty cool—it didn’t look like a painting, but neither like a photograph. Georgia O’Keeffe’s were SO COOL. They were the Jack-in-the-Pulpits, 2-6. They were HUGE. I really like her style of painting. If I painted, which I don’t intend to, my style would be like hers a bit or a lot.
We visited the Botanical Gardens, mostly because we ended up there. That was pretty cool, to see all those different plants in one place, and all different places too—a jungle in one room, and a desert in the next. Needless to say, I loved seeing all the sweet cacti in the desert room. The flowers were GORGEOUS, definitely worth the stop.
We went to the Natural History museum and saw a million animals. I don’t know how God thought of all of them! That was pretty sweet, and then we went to the gems and stones section and saw the Hope diamond, which was spectacular for a diamond but nothing compared to all the sparkling crystals in the next exhibit! Those were seriously magnificent, I don’t care if they’re pretty common, they were huge and sparkly. Some were just giant jewel-type-things, some were plain looking rocks that had a portion cut away to show the crystals coating the inside (never judge a rock by its cover). Some looked like mini sculptures, like something you’d see on the streets of DC (they have these random, abstract sculptures every few blocks). One looked like a painting of a tree, surprisingly enough. I really really liked that section.
After the Natural History museum, we were about done in, so we went back to the American History museum to sit outside and rest like we did at the capitol on Friday. That was quite nice too; we bought an ornament at the last second from the gift shop so that we’ll have something to remember our trip by every year. We stopped at Arlington Cemetery on the way home, it’s a stop on the metro so it was right on our way. It was about to close, so we only stayed 15 minutes and didn’t get very far in at all, but the amount of headstones and crosses was still astounding. Especially when you imagined a man standing in place of each one, that is a multitude of people.
Sunday:
We had only a couple more things we wanted to see: The FDR memorial, and the Thomas Jefferson memorial. Like so many other things on this trip, we stumbled across the George Mason memorial as well. He drafted the Articles of Confederation, which was the pre-government of America that didn’t work out so well. The FDR memorial was quite nice, quotes and waterfalls everywhere. I think he probably would’ve rolled over in his grave if he knew how much it cost, I think it was something like $42 million. I could have that completely wrong, but I think it sounds right.
That was our awesome amazing superlative trip to DC. The weather was wonderful the whole time!! Everything worked perfectly, without even having any major disasters!
The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly IV
The Bad
Our feet hurt so badly by the end of each day! Hence the sitting around at the Capitol and History Museum. My back also started to hurt on Saturday, just a little bit. By Sunday we were quite ready to sit in the car for the long trip home, listening to The Magician’s Nephew and the beginning of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. And eating more Icees. But that was the only bad (and also unavoidable) thing in our trip.
The Ugly
I haven’t run or driven in almost two weeks! I was going to run tonight, but when we went for a walk and my legs and back started to hurt again, I decided to write this novel instead. So the next time I run it’ll be Wednesday, and I won’t be driving till after that.
I also need a haircut—nothing major, just a trim! You won’t even be able to tell! Well, Bea will, haha!
So, my life's going well, trying to get back on track and catch up with everyone. I've heard about youth group and church from several people, but I'll ask again, how did they go? If you've already answered once, you don't have to answer again. Love you guys, talk to you later! Call me or e-mail!
(If you read all this, you win the Katie Prize of the Week. :-D There’s no reward, just my gratitude. :-D)
Our feet hurt so badly by the end of each day! Hence the sitting around at the Capitol and History Museum. My back also started to hurt on Saturday, just a little bit. By Sunday we were quite ready to sit in the car for the long trip home, listening to The Magician’s Nephew and the beginning of the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. And eating more Icees. But that was the only bad (and also unavoidable) thing in our trip.
The Ugly
I haven’t run or driven in almost two weeks! I was going to run tonight, but when we went for a walk and my legs and back started to hurt again, I decided to write this novel instead. So the next time I run it’ll be Wednesday, and I won’t be driving till after that.
I also need a haircut—nothing major, just a trim! You won’t even be able to tell! Well, Bea will, haha!
So, my life's going well, trying to get back on track and catch up with everyone. I've heard about youth group and church from several people, but I'll ask again, how did they go? If you've already answered once, you don't have to answer again. Love you guys, talk to you later! Call me or e-mail!
(If you read all this, you win the Katie Prize of the Week. :-D There’s no reward, just my gratitude. :-D)
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