Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Arlington National Cemetery & Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers

Last June, Mom, Dad and I went to Arlington National Cemetery on our way to pick up Abby from Dulles when she got back from Spain.  Okay, I thought our cemeteries here were big, but, oh no, they're really not.  Arlington National Cemetery is HUGE.  It literally feels like you could look forever and not see anything by tombstones for as far as your eye can see.  It's a pretty neat experience.

One of my favorite parts about the cemetery were the neat "street" signs you walked past.  The names of the street signs included, Grant Avenue, Roosevelt Avenue, McClellan Avenue, and one directing you towards the President J.F. Kennedy Gravesite.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Things You Should Know About Me....

....if we're going to be BFFs.

I was searching random blogs last week and came across one who did a similar post to this. Because I'm scatter-brained sometimes and I quickly get distracted, somewhere in the process of doing more searches, I lost that original blog. Sad. But, that doesn't mean I'm not going to do my own post on the topic!

Basically, this is a list of random facts about me.  If you're around me on a daily basis, read my blog often, or we communicate regularly, you probably already know most of these, but I thought it would still be fun to share some fun facts!

Let's get started...

Monday, January 28, 2013

Early Photography

This post is almost embarrassing to write. Haha.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this several times before, but if you didn’t catch those post, here’s a quick overview (and if you’ve already read this, just bear with me for a minute!).  In Henrico County, where I went to school, all of the high schools have different specialty centers that you can apply to and hopefully get into the program which you love the most.  I attended the Center for Communications at Varina High School, also my home high school (but talking about that is for a whole other post!).  In the CFC, we completed many types of communications projects, including, but DEFINITELY not limited to Talk Shows, Live Broadcasting (Varina 411 Live!), our own TV show (Roll Tape!), writing/editing/photographing for the school newspaper – The Blue Devil’s Advocate – radio shows, Shakespeare plays with a twist (honestly, probably my most favorite project we did!!), and gosh, so many more things!

During senior year, we had Rotation.  Our senior class was broken up into three groups to go with the three different rotations, which were Photography, Video and Magazine (Thanks Malm for helping me remember!). While going through some old CDs on Friday, I found my CD of pictures from Photo Rotation, and oh gosh.  I was so excited to look