All Music is Beautiful

I think music is one my favorite things in this world. I love all kinds of music, Rock, Hip-Hop, Alternative, Country Classical. Music, for me, can help me to express myself better. I find how I am feeling in many different songs. Many of the Filipinos here know that I’m the one to go to with music. However what I wanted to share today is one of my all time favorite songs.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won't let show

You just call on me brother when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

You just call on me brother when you need a hand
we all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
we all need somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me

Call me if you need a friend . . .

Trying a New Way to Post

So I kept getting this update to upgrade to the newest windows live messenger. So finally I did it and upgraded. When I did they had this Windows Live Writer which helps or is a way to easily write posts so this is the test.

So I had begun writing about our drive up skyline and never finished posting the pictures. It was taking forever and I was tired so here are the rest of the pictures.

(Continued from Hair the color of autumn) So after our first stop on skyline drive we continued on and decided to stop at the visitor center and wonder around. There was a pile of leaves and of course I had to get pictures in it (everyone else also wanted a picture of them in the leaves.) 

     

I’m liking this Live writer, it lets me put the pictures where I want and the words where I want. I can even play with different fonts (I think) I can :)

The rest of the time we mostly drive with random stops and instead of boring you with all the random stops, I will just post the pictures. When we got down with Skyline drive some of the people wanted to go a winery so we took a small road to a back road and then turned on a residential road that led to a gravel road to get the winery. It was the smallest road I had driven on and could literally fit one car on the road. However, it was a cute little log-ish cabin that looked out over the mountains. Beautiful view.

 

I’m not sure you can tell, (I hope you can) but each of those pictures has a different boarder. I can really have some fun with that :)

Driving

I don't know how many people I've told about driving in Manila, but it can get pretty crazy. However, I have never seen an accident. They usually do not observe stop signs or lights. Also lanes do not mean anything and I have had times where my cab was so close to the car next to me that a person could not fit between them (I think it was like 5 inches between the two cars. Anyway lately I have been driving filipino's around because I have been working with them and have been told that I could probably drive in Manila. Yikes that means either I am good enough to handle a car around the other drivers in Manila or that I am just as crazy as them.

Hair the color of Autumn

So I am pretty sure I have mentioned fall colors in every single one of my posts, but I am not used to the beautiful colors you see in the east plus there are tons of trees. Anyway, for Halloween I did not do any of the normal Halloween activities, in fact I kept forgetting it was Halloween. Anyway one of my co-worker's, Heather decided to take all the Filipino's on day trip (a drive through Virginia and the mountains.) It took ALL day, but was worth it and we got a ton of beautiful pictures. Luckily in my car I had one guy who loves to take pictures and he's pretty good so we would do a lot of posed pictures. One of the pictures he mentioned that my hair is the color of Autumn and now that I have the pictures I realize why he said that.

I've also included a couple of my favorite pictures from the trip. It was seriously a beautiful drive. We began the trip in Richmond headed west for about 45 min which was all freeway driving. Then we got off the freeway and headed north on a small winding state route that took us through lots of little towns. It was beautiful and I thought Andrea the entire time because of the all beautiful little farms. After driving for a couple of hours we decided to stop in a little town and took some pictures of the rolling hills and small town roads. One of the girls that I work with, Theresa is so photogenic I had to include one her photos in here (I hope she doesn't mind.)










I wonder how long a blog can be and how many pictures you can add. I also am afraid that there will be too much to read and people will get bored, but there's so much to show and talk about. Anyway we finally got to the top of this drive called Skyline which is a national park that is a road in the mountains which has some beautiful views of the valleys below. These are pictures of our first stop



There are more pictures to show and and things to tell, but I am getting tired and wanted to publish what I had so far. So I am going to call it quits for now but will continue on another post so that way it's broken up a bit.

Sunday Walk

Last weekend Kyle came and visited me in Richmond. I enjoyed the company. After church we weren't sure what do so we just started driving and ended up driving over the James river so we thought we would stop. We ended up at this park that was a walk/hike to a lookout kind of spot. The walk was beautiful and the leaves here are so gorgeous, but the river wasn't much to see. I took some pictures of the beautiful walk.

Here are some pictures of the James River although you can't really tell it's much of a river, but we didn't want to walk anymore because we had to walk down a ton of stairs to only turn around and walk back up.


And of course I had to be in at least one picture. The rest are me trying to get the very colorful leaves from the east cost. You don't see these pretty colors on the west side but Utah is still beautiful all seasons.

Finding Places to Eat

Not being able to make my own food or grocery shop requires us to find different places to eat. Eating at the same place gets boring. Even eating out every meal get boring. Anyway on Friday there were only three of us left over the weekend so we thought we'd try this place that had been talked about often, The Tobacco Co. Well I had seen it when we had gone to a different resaurant near by and
thought it looked pretty casual. Well I was wrong, although being the spacey person that I am didn't realize it until we were sitting down and it was pointed out to me. I started looking around and noticed most people were in suites and ties and really dressed up. Then we started looking at the menu and the appetizers were $14. Well we were already seated and it was on the company dime so even though we were underdressed we stayed. The food didn't end up tasting very well, but I did enjoy the atmosphere and it had a really cool old fashioned elevator. Plus the company was good and they kept me laughing most the night. So even though the food was overpriced and we didn't fit in, it was still a good dinner.

The pictures are of me and Joseph in the elevator and the view outside the window.

Doings

One of the things that gets me excited about doing a blog is to keep people up to date on my Travels. I am usually asked when I get back what I did, but I can't really remember all the little stories or random things that happened. Now I can share them here with whoever wants to read them. Hopefully I'm not a boring blogger.

Last weekend the hotel manager recommended we go to Carytown and gave us directions how to get there. So we got in the car and followed the directions down to a cure little street with small ma and pa shops, antique stores and fun little restaurants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I went with some guys from work, Joseph, Ivan and Lem. We didn't spend much time, just browsed around a few of the shops. One of the shops was a holiday decoration store and had a bunch of Halloween thing. Out front was a skeleton on a bench and being the geek that I am, I had to get a picture with the skeleton.

Then me and Lem went to a fun little antique jewelry shop that was independently owned and the owners buy most of the stuff at auctions and fix them up themselves. I ended up buying a beautiful gold locket which was the most I have ever spent on Jewelry but I do love it. I haven't taken a picture of it yet, but I'm sure I will and probably post a blog about it. :)
Finally we ended up at a really good Japanese restaurant. We had already eaten lunch but was more like a mid-afternoon snack. We sat outside and enjoyed the slightly cool air. It was a beautiful weekend, not too cold, but not too hot.

Later that night our boss want us to go out as a team. We went to The Richbrau Brewery in Downtown Richmond. The food was not at all impressive, but after dinner we went upstairs where they had billiards, an arcade and a dance floor. The night was too early and so there was no one on the dance floor, but we did all play billiards which was a ton of fun. I actually mostly played my boss and got killed every time. Oh well, I've never claimed to be a pool shark. Getting my butt kicked in billiards was too much fun to stop and take pictures so my pictures are of the team at dinner and me standing in front of some old looking brewing machine.