Snowed in

The only time in my entire life I can remember having things cancelled because of snow was when I was little and living in West Jordan, but even then I didn’t feel snowed in because as kids we outside and played in the snow.

So yesterday here in Virginia (which by the way I was told that it never snows here) it snowed ALL day! The snow started at about 3 in the morning and kept snowing until after I went to bed, which was around 2 in the morning. The Filipinos here haven’t seen snow so they wanted to go out and take pictures in it so we did. I only lasted about 10 minutes before freezing and going back in.

After our tiny little escapade in the snow we went back inside and I spent the entire day inside. I didn’t want to go anywhere and I kind of felt stuck. I didn’t have any good snow shoes or stuff to get snow off my car. It was a strange feeling to be snowed in and I live in Utah so I shouldn't be afraid to go out in the snow. The next day was pretty, sun shinning and blue skies. I went to go to church but church had been cancelled due to snow so I got pictures of the damage. And Andrea yes I know I cannot complain and I am sure in comparison to what you've seen this is nothing, but for me, being in a place that doesn't snow, this is a lot :)

Back to the Grind

So I realized it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything. I think it has been because this month is a crazy busy month. Not in my personal life but in work. So I’ve just been working hard and getting stuff done at work.

Home for the Holidays

So I had a great idea for a post. Since I have been gone so much lately I was going to call it “Home for the Holidays” which would have pictures of my parents very well decorated house and I would talk about some of my memories and favorite decorations. However, I was lazy these last couple of weeks and forgot to get pictures. Well part of it was I would only think about it when it was light outside and I wouldn’t get the lights or I when I wasn’t home. Now it’s too late because my parents have already cleaned up the decorations :( Well at least I got a picture of the tree.

Washington D.C.

I have a couple of posts about Washington D.C. and this will be the last one. These are the pictures of us hitting the different tourist spots.

The first night was spent as an entire group. When we went to Old Ebbitt grill we had also visited The Whitehouse. (By the way I added some pictures to the Old Ebbitt Grill Post.)Me and my dang eyes always closing! The next day is when we hit the Smithsonians, mainly because it was snowing. Then the final day we went to the different monuments and memorials. The second two days is when the groups split up. Here is the group that I hung out with (plus Haidee who is taking the picture.)

The Washington Monument

The World War II Memorial

Finally The Lincoln Memorial From the Lincoln Memorial you can look back over the reflection pool and see the Washington Memorial.

Smithsonian

During our trips to DC we visited three of the five Smithsonian museums, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The first museum we visited was the Air and Space museum. There were tons of cool planes.

Then we went to the Holocaust museum, but I didn’t take any pictures because we are not allowed. That was the saddest museum. They had even had kids portion of the museum where kids can read about a child’s diary from the holocaust. There was so much information it took a couple of hours to go through and there was still tons of stuff I missed.

The final museum we went to was the Museum of Natural History. This was probably my favorite museum, many amazing exhibits. On the first floor were animal exhibit and had tons of stuffed animals from everywhere including the sea. Then on the second floor has a geology section which included famous jewels such as the hope diamond. They had a diadem worn my Napoleon’s wife. Emeralds and rubies. Of course one of my favorite exhibits.

Some of the artifacts from the second Night at the Museum movie were in this museum and I had to get a picture with the Easter Island statue.

Also on the second floor was a Butterfly habitat. I’m girly girl and loved the many flowers and butterflies. With winter being right outside I really enjoyed the flowers. This picture actually has at least 4 or 5 butterflies, but they are hard to see.

There was one huge blue butterfly that would not stay still for long so this was the best picture I got of it.

The butterflies kept landing on me. I don’t know if it was because of my colorful shirt or if I had a scent they like, but this little girl kept asking me how I was getting them to land on me (the girl.

Architecture

I love to look at different buildings and the beautiful art that can come from them. Grand columns, colorful windows, arches and even the many different beautiful stones or other materials that buildings are made from. One of my favorite things about D.C. was the beautiful buildings, both modern and neoclassical. Although many of my favorite buildings were neoclassical. Here are some pictures of the gorgeous buildings. Even the McDonald’s has interesting architecture. This is the Smithsonian Castle which is actually rather large, but I only got a picture of part of the building.

Old Ebbitt Grill

Spent my first night in DC and LOVED the place we went to eat. We have a huge group of 17 people and went to the White House first where a cop recommended the Old Ebbitt Grill. It was actually really late, 10 pm, but the place was still way crowded. It took about 40 min for us to get seated but what do you expect with a group that big. However, we quickly ordered and the food was up extremely quickly. I think we spent more time waiting for the table then actually seating at the table and the food was delicious. Here are the pictures from Old Ebbitt Grill. Most are when we are outside waiting some are actually candid.