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As most of you know, we spent the weekend in Washington D.C. We were able to do a little sightseeing together on Sunday before McD's meeting started. We went to Arlington Cemetery to see the Changing of the Guard ceremony, Union Station for lunch, and then to the National Mall. We. Walked. A Lot. I am still a little sore from all the walking. Believe it or not half of the escalators in that city are broken, so we had to walk stairs too. I'm not complaining, it actually is a good thing.
When we walked up to the Lincoln Memorial we saw a young lady wearing a leotard doing gymnastics. Seriously.
Notice the heavy coats? It was like 30 degrees. It was cold.
This is the background for her photo. Those could be some amazing photos if there weren't so many other people in them. A photo at dusk would have been beautiful if there weren't many people there, and it was lit appropriately. But they didn't ask me. :)
These are our friends that went sightseeing with us. Actually, Tonya (on the right) was our tour guide. She had lived in the area for a spell and she was more than happy to show us around.
Check out her toes. Let's see, do you think she is getting ready for the Olympics? Maybe trying out for the U.S. Gymnastics team? We know they were working on her portfolio.
Ta-Da! Yea, I could never do that.
So, do you see the couple in the photo. They sat there for the longest time. They didn't even look at the gymnast. They were just a couple of lovebirds out for the day. Our little gymnast likes pink. Or I think so, she has pink UGGs, so I thinking she likes pink.
Just think, maybe one day she will be competing in the Olympics and you saw her here first. Or she is a famous gymnast, and I have no clue.
While checking out the Lincoln Memorial I turned around and this is what I saw...The Washington Monument. It was a beautiful site to see, so I thought I would share it. This photo was taken with my iPhone, not too shabby for a phone.
We have had quite the winter with highs around 0˙ on some days. The ponds were all iced over and we were chopping ice everyday, twice a day. But we didn't chop the ice on this pond. This is our outdoor ice skating rink.
It looks so peaceful. If you stand out on the dock, and be really quiet, you can hear the ice move. It's pretty cool. Well, until you are out in the middle of the pond and you hear the ice move. It's not so cool then.
Then from out of nowhere comes my favorite ice skater of all time, McD. He loves to skate on the pond. Maybe we should invest in some ice skates, now that would be fun!
He is just a big kid, and there is nothing wrong with that. I love it!
We had a blast skating that day. Who knows, the 10 day forecast says that we will be getting more winter weather so we might get to go ice skating again this winter.
I am getting some ice skates. That just sounds like too much fun!
These past few weeks we have had a visitor. He arrives every evening, and leaves sometime in the middle of the night. He is a little thief is what he is.
If we leave the dog food out all night he thinks it is his very own buffet, all you can eat buffet.
Sneaky little booger. Mia thinks she has killed him twice, but yep...you guessed it. He was playing possum.
WARNING!! Some photos are completely out of focus due to the photographer (that would be me) laughing her butt off.
Have you ever sat and just watched people's faces while they are playing games on the Wii? Oh my heck. If you haven't then you seriously need to do it. It is easy to do. Just let someone else have a turn, sit down and get ready to giggle. Or in our case, laugh our butts off.
These are the funniest photos I have ever taken. Ever!
I am thinking I will hear from McD as soon as he sees this post.
He and my nephew are playing Mario Kart. Let me tell you, I don't think I have ever laughed that hard.
Do you think he is getting beat? Stick that bottom lip out Garrett! Go! Go! Go!
I think he is winning! Go McD!!
Yea, he must have won. YEAH!
Now it is time to relax, and let someone else take a turn. But I don't think it will last for long. It must have been my turn because there aren't any photos. :)
Oh he is back at it. I should have saved these shots to use as blackmail. Bwahhaha!
I think he might have crashed. What do you think? Nothing good could have happened to get this reaction.
This must be a pretty hard course. He isn't looking to happy, but there is determination in those eyes. I see it!
I have absolutely no idea how my dad slept through all of the laughter and yelling. Oh I take that back, he can sleep through everything. EVERYTHING! Except for scissors opening close to his hair, but that is another blog post.
Not really sure why he is holding his head up like this, but he does it a lot while playing Mario Kart. Then he sees me laughing and tries not to. :)
See, here's another shot. Head is up again. Hee hee. I promise he doesn't drive like this in the car. Or maybe he does. I am going to have to pay better attention in the car.
Mom even got in on the fun.
Oh, oh, two in one shot! I love it!
We played all weekend, and really had a blast. Mom had so much fun that she went and bought a Wii for their house. Then my sister ended up getting one for her house too.
Wii are family! (Sorry, it just hit me. I had to do it.)
Now, if you blog and you are looking for a post idea, latch on to this one. We would love to see your family's Wii faces.
My sister and her family came to spend the weekend with us this past weekend. We had a great time. It is so nice when we get up in the morning, everyone in their PJs, and just have our caffeine and talk. Sometimes we reminisce, and sometimes we talk about what's happening these days.
We did some reminiscing this past weekend. Somehow my sister brought up the time that we were kids, and the birds tried to kill us. I was probably 8, and she was 5. We had a huge tree in our backyard that we had a tire swing on. There was a little metal building that had been kind of sort of turned into a playhouse, and it was about twenty feet from the tree. We could be found there almost any afternoon.
One day we went running down to the tire swing, because it was a pretty good ways from the house. We ran down there and one of us got on the swing. I don't recall if I was getting on the swing or getting ready to push her on the swing. But all of a sudden there were birds everywhere. At first it was kind of cool. Like, oh wow, look at all those birds.
Then they turned on us. They started diving for us. It wasn't just one bird diving for us, it was several. In our minds they were everywhere, but in reality I am sure there were just a few and it seemed like we were on the set of some horror movie where the birds kill the little kids.
It felt like the birds got reallly close to our heads, reality check...probably not. But those stinkin' birds scared the poo out of us. We ran as fast as we could to get out of there. We had a detached garage, and we were a little closer to that than the house so that is where we went. We stood in there for a few minutes trying to get up the nerve to run from the garage to the house.
We worked up the courage and made it to the house to tell mom about our latest adventure.
So, I told you all of that to tell you this.
IT HAPPENED AGAIN!
Okay, not the same exact way, but the birds really, seriously did get close this time.
Saturday afternoon my sister and I were out roaming in the canyon while the boys were playing on the zip line. I had my camera with me, so we were just capturing everything. We ventured off to look at a bird's nest way up in a tree. You would think we would learn with our experience with birds. Now that we think back on it, we are pretty sure that the birds that tried to kill us were just protecting their babies. Makes sense now. Back then they were just killer birds.
So, we go look at the nest. Hmmm, look over here I here my sister say. I look and there is a hole where it looks like some varmit must be living. We keep walking and talking, and all of a sudden we are surrounded. Surrounded by birds. Birds of all kinds. There were Robins, and that pretty little lady (I am guessing it is a female bird) in the photo above. Which just happens to be one of my favorite birds in the whole bird file. There was a Cardinal too. Okay, so there were only a few different birds, but there were at least a hundred. No lie! They were everywhere you turned. And if we stood still enough they would go about their business. There is a creek running through the canyon, so they were bathing, and drinking out of the creek. Some were perched on a limb, and others were flying around. They were flitting. :)
Then it happened. We heard the boys playing, and making all kinds of noise. We tried to quiet them, but as you know, boys will be boys no matter how old they are. They scared the birds. Yep. All of the birds took off. There were two that flew so close to me that I could have reached out and touched them had I been fast enough. But instead of running, this time we both just froze. We couldn't move. But we made it out alive, without a scratch. We didn't even get pooped on. All those birds getting scared off and not one of them pooped on us. I would say we had a pretty good day.
Here's one more shot of my favorite bird that day. Enjoy!
Do you Kindle?
The Kindle sounds amazing. Amazing! The small 8" Kindle holds up to 1500 books. 1500 books! That is unreal. Unreal! Sorry, I just noticed that I am repeating myself a lot in this post so I just had to do it again. :)
The larger 10" Kindle holds 3500 books. I can't even think of 3500 book titles, can you?
One of my dear friends has a Kindle. She got it for Christmas, and she LOVES it. She has read several books on it already, and she is raring to go to read more. At first I was a bit envious. In an instant I thought I wanted one. Then I decided against it.
Don't get me wrong, I am sure they are amazing. I mean they have a built in dictionary, pdf reader, and the battery can last up to two weeks. You can buy books for $9.99 that normally run $25 and $30 in print. You can even browse blogs! Cool, huh!
But, I really really like reading in the tub. I am strange, I've always claimed that. And I have dropped books in the tub before. I saved them before they were ruined; they might have had the fanned edges look, but they were still readable. What would happen if I dropped the Kindle in the tub. Yeah, I am thinking it wouldn't be good.
Here's another one. I have left a book on an airplane before, not an expensive book, but still...if it were a Kindle I would be pretty darn upset. Now I can't even remember the name of the book I left, and I really wanted to finish it. Plus it wasn't mine and I need to replace it, although I can't remember whose it was. Hmmm. I might be in a pickle.
I just love the feel of the book in my hands. The actual turning of the page. I love it! I have always wanted a library in my home, and I wouldn't need one if I had a Kindle.
Unless someone just gives me a Kindle, then I won't be purchasing one. This might change in time, but for now I am going to keep my books.
What are your thoughts on this?
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