National Capitol March 14

On March 14 a bunch of us took a tour of the National Capitol. I mentioned it briefly before, but here is a little more information. Natalie works for Senator Bennett and is authorized to gives tours of the Capitol, isn't she just nice?the girls: Kendra, Rebecca, me, Natalie Our tour guide tells us about the pictures on the ceiling.

This is the ceiling. Every state has two statues of famous people from their state in the capitol, you will see some of these.Where's Ohio?

This is a bad picture. This is a group of us with Brigham Young, one of Utah's famous person statues. The person taking the picture cut off the top of Brigham Young's head, and also there is much red eye. The red eye doesn't come off with the simple red eye fixer and I didn't feel like fixing the all red eye by hand for a bad picture, but it's the only one with all of us in it.

This is going to be my bathroom tile.

My state of birth.

This one's for you, Mom!

My mother was wondering if I have any friends because so far, my posts have been my solo trips or playing with Melina. Don't get me wrong, I love my solo trips and playing with Melina, but I also have other people that I hang out with. It's just a titch more awkward to make everyone you're with take pictures of everything you do, so there are fewer of those, but here are some. I've also been to barbecues (yes in March, it's been that warm) and I go to Institute (religion studies) and activities with other people in the area. It's been quite fun.

This is a Mardi Gras celebration. From left to right are me, Melina, lamppost, traffic light, Rebecca (my new English friend that I hang out with a lot)

I like music and I like concerts (apparently more than I like my hearing, as many of you already know). This is a local Virginia artist named Justin Trawick and his band. Note the accordion, upright base, and saxophone as unusual instruments in a rock band, but he pulls it together really well. I'm a fan, a huge fan.

And when Rebecca and I got to meet Justin Trawick, we were a little star struck.

Here are a bunch of us about to take a tour of the National Capitol by a Senator Bennet (Utah)staffer.

See, I can make friends :) I'm not lame, well I suppose that's debatable.

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess! March 2

(Again, sorry for the lateness. Man I need to work on this.)As a celebrator of all holidays and with a fondness for Dr. Suess and his excellent works, Melina, Melina's sister Tiana, and I had a birthday party for Dr. Suess. We had green eggs and ham-burgers (Tiana's idea) with green stars on our bellies (Melina's idea). My contribution? a snow sculpture of pale green pants with nobody inside them.