May 25th

Jamestown! Once again, there was a huge gallery with way too much information to take in in one day. The first picture is of the fountains outside the welcome center, behind which every state flag is flying. There is also a recreation of the fort, and of the Powhatan village, as well as recreations of the three ships on which the first settlers arrived.

May 24th

Yorktown! At the victory center there is a gallery full of information about the battle, as well as a recreation of a campsite. This is a surgeon's tent. We also went to the battlefield and walked around, looking at the canons and embankments. There was also a grave site with a headstone of someone who died February 30th. How cool is that? Yes, there had to be three pictures today.

May 23rd

Colonial Williamsburg! Steph and John in the stocks, Molony overseeing it all.

Further down is a weird, curvy tree I saw. Saying that makes it sound a lot less interesting than I thought it was when I saw it...

May 18th

My birthday! And what a lovely birthday it was, too. I spent the morning working on a secret project, and in the evening I went out to dinner with my family to Longhorn Texas Steakhouse which was fabulous. Thursday my David is taking me out to get our favorite pizza at Little City Pizza! This week just gets better and better.

For Mother's Day, my brother got my mom a bouquet of red roses. They've begun to wilt, and have turned a really brilliant magenta color. It's like they're glowing from the inside.

May 16th

In my other blog, I was challenged to write a song about my love for feet. I HATE feet, so it was quite the challenge. Also, I had to accompany myself on guitar, which I don't play--that was all part of the challenge. I actually had a lot of fun with it, and made the song into a music video. In my garage, there is a little footprint in the concrete, my footprint from when I was very young. I was able to incorporate that into the video as well.

May 14th

Regan and Josh's wedding! The church was beautifully decorated, the wedding and reception were both wonderful, and I had so much fun! The reception was held in Jackson Hall. Even the basketball hoops were covered, and well-disguised. The guys started dancing, copying a bizarre dance Mouseboy created. I wish I had gotten a picture of the bride, because Regan in her lovely dress, glowing on her wedding day, was definitely the most beautiful thing I saw.

May 12th

Marcia, Rachel, Bryce and I went to hike Mount Monadnock today. We took some of the lesser traveled trails up the other side of the mountain. At one point, the trail was surrounded by these bushes of white flowers. It was very beautiful.

The top of Monadnock is bare because a fire stripped it of all trees decades ago. The entire mountaintop was on fire one night, and none of the newspapers reported it. People have carved their names up at the top of the mountain. Here you can see "LAMBERT 1880". Over 130 years ago, this name was carved. I wonder if Lambert ever thought someone would be reading his name so many years into the future. It's difficult for me to imagine someone finding a trace of my life over a hundred years from now, and long after I'm gone.

I took my new video camera up the mountain with me, and created a video of our hike. The footage is kind of shaky, especially in the parts I've sped up, but you get a sort of feel for what Monadnock is like. Check it out HERE!