The Powhatan and Jamestown

Back to our visit to Virginia. We stayed in a very nice condo in the Historic Powhatan Resort, which was our home, essentially. 
A couple of my favorite photos taken:

 After one rainstorm, was this fiery and amazing sunset!

 There was one single swan swimming in the pond/lake (depending on who you asked).

On a rainy day, we visited Jamestown, Virginia. I've never thought a ton about it, but it was surreal to walk through the town and consider the history of our country.  It was a bit sobering and I really enjoyed that there wasn't a crowd of people visiting with us.
Here are the photos I loved :

We hid from the rain in a shelter and found this Powhatan girl re-enacting life in the past. I struggled to get the correct camera settings to use the natural light coming in from a small doorway. That was the only light source, and I LOVED the way this photo turned out.

We didn't stay as long as we would have liked but we explored all we could before the rain made it through out clothing and skin down to the bone. 
Lucky for us, our condo had a magnificent bathtub and steam room. Yay!!!

Friday Night Videos

Testing out the "new" blogger look....we'll see how that goes. 

Here's video #1: a blind kitten learning to play for the first time...so cute!:


Video #2: - I enjoy the motivating videos as I find them...Maybe It's My Fault:


Video #3: Another great TED video:


Video #4: Wish I could do this with any and all pedofiles:

Virginia - Dahl Family

Eric and I took a little trip to Virginia in March. He's been wanting to show me his old romping ground in North Carolina for a long time. I really wanted to see Washington DC while we were in the vicinity so we created a home base of Williamsburg, Virginia.

We flew out on the red eye flight on March 3; yup. I'm that far behind. We flew into Newport News and were to check into our condo sometime after three o'clock. A couple of weeks before we left, I'd emailed my friend MaryAnn to find out their address so I could send them a package. She sent me her address and I was surprised and thrilled to see they live in Newport News! Yay!!

I was ever so excited to see her and Shaun and their cute family. I've known them for a long time and I don't think I realized how much I'd missed them until I saw them.

MaryAnn was gracious enough to let us hang out with her and the 10 month old twins and 7 year old Ezra. It was wonderful to catch up .... she's doing what she wanted to do and I'm happy to see it. I can say this: 10 month old twins are more than a handful!!! eeeekk!!

Here are some of the pictures I took of them on the first day and then the day before we came home a week later.

And Friday, March 9:

It was very nice to hang out and catch up and I'm looking forward to seeing them again in the next couple of years.

Friday Night Videos

After a very long and busy week, I came home on Friday night and collapsed into my bed. So, here are the videos I found to use for my videos:

Just because I've not been getting my zombie fix the last few weeks, and won't for several more, doesn't mean I can't enjoy it,right?


This reminds us all of my brother...and I love it!! (not to mention the song):


My sister took Flat Stanley for a little journey through Spain and Scotland:


Speaking of April, you should follow her on Youtube as she records her own journey in Spain...here's just one of her recent videos:

Another List of Things that Must Go

I have been accumulating these for a while.

1. My best sleep comes right before and during the time I need to get up in the morning (5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.)

2. Trainees with long fingernails who come to class and can't type. My observation has been that these ladies don't type very well anyway, then they have these terrible long nails.....cut the nails!

3. Yelling...loudly...horribly...at children. They are children! Teach them. Don't yell at them.

4. My debit card has the words: "See ID." Yet, I get asked MAYBE once a month after several interactions at the grocery store, fast food, book store, restaurants....you name it. Finally one person will ask. I've gotten to where I hand both my card and my ID over, and they still don't check!!!

5. Commercials where the husband is portrayed as an idiot with no clue about how the family is going and the wife is so much more knowledgeable. Husband: what are we going to do about blah blah blah problem?
Wife: oh, I already checked that and here's the solution: Product name
Husband: Product name?
Wife: Yes, Product name will do....blah blah blah and solve the problem.
Husband: Squirrel! (or some ridiculous comment to the like.)

6. People who say, "you're too young to have a bucket list." Maybe, but I think I want to create a list of things I'd like to accomplish, see and/or visit before my life is over...These will become a bit of a priority over other things that aren't on my list. And nobody is ever to young to create a road map for themselves.