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Look, Honey - We Have New Neighbors!

9/25/2010

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I'm ba-ack!!!  Finally!  So sorry I haven't posted in forever - we have been crazy, crazy, crazy busy the last couple of days.  The only times my mom posts is late at night when I'm in bed listening to her computer keys clicking (or sleeping - me sleeping, I mean, not the computer keys), or in the early in the morning, while I am definitely sleeping.  Those are the only available times, anyway.  For the last few days, as you already know, we've been in Washington.  Before that, we had our 'might as well' day.  Check my mom's post from couple of days ago - you'll know what I mean.  And I posted the day before that.  Anyway, we've been busy. :)

But today - no, siree, we are not busy!!  Well, at least not going into D.C.  Actually, Dad and Noah are at the Spy Museum (or they might be driving home now), but the rest of us wanted a break.  Oh, but we are going to visit some of our friends tonight.  I can't wait!!  He and she (I'm not saying names unless I get their permission) got married about 3 years ago, I think, and now they have a 4-week-old baby girl!!  I can't wait to see all three of them; I've met both the adults, but this will be the first time I'll see the baby girl.  (BTW, Dad and Noah just drove up.)  Anyway, what I was going to say in the first place (sometimes I get kind of off track, if you haven't noticed), was that we got to sleep in late this morning - until about 10:30!!  Well, we didn't actually sleep that long, but we didn't have breakfast until than.  Speaking of breakfast, we had pancakes and sausage this morning, thanks to the campground host.  We ate outside, near where the chef was cooking.  Yum!

Sooo.... I got a digital camera!!!!  It's amazing.  It has a pretty good sized screen on the front of the camera, as well as the back.  You turn that front screen on, turn the camera around and take a photo of yourself without cutting your head off (which is what I would normally do).  It's amazing!  It has tons of different features, and fairly user-friendly, too.  I'm so glad I got it.  I bought it the day before we trekked into D.C., and I'm so thankful I went ahead did it.  I got some cool pictures, too.  Here's a few pictures that I like:
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This is a pic of the Freedom Statue inside the Capitol.  While we were at the Library of Congress, our tour guide told us that all - or at least most - of the statues sculpted in the 17th and 18th centuries that symbolize a concept - freedom, for example - are female.  The statues of real people were primarily men.  Cool, huh?
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This is a pic of "The Apotheosis of Washington", George Washington, that is.  When I took this picture, I was in the Rotunda in the Capitol, looking up into the rounded ceiling.  This picture makes it look like a flat ceiling, but it was dome-like, not flat.  Anyway, the artist of this painting was depicting George Washington rising up into the heavens, in the middle.  Circling that are thirteen young women, symbolizing (what else?) the original thirteen states.  Around the edges of this work of art are six different scenes representing six things - War, Science, Marine, Commerce, Mechanics, and Agriculture.  BTW, it was painted by Constantino Brumidi in 1865.  That's your history lesson for the day.
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This is where we ate lunch a few days ago.  We met one of our friends there, a person my parents had met in Switzerland, though they live here in the USA.  We had actually first met the couple a few days before that, but the guy (again, not using names without permission) works in that area, at the Capitol, I think, or something like that.  He's really funny.  You see those stickers Mom and Noah have on?  Those let us into the Capitol and into the House of Representatives.  But they weren't in session, so we just sat there for a few minutes, looking around, taking a break, and then we left. :)  Oh, you see the flowers behind them?  I took a close up of one (below) - to me, it looks like a screen saver!!!  The flowers were really pretty.
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OK, I need a vote - should I sell Nathan and have $1,491,200 (that measure thing is wrong - it was too high up on the wall - Nathan's only about 5 feet, 4 inches), or should keep him and have a pain in the neck?  Just kidding!!  He's not always a pain in the neck.  Just sometimes, like when he yells at the screen of his iPod Touch when he's playing a game, while I'm trying to blog. :)  (BTW, sorry the picture is sideways - I couldn't turn it.)
Right now we have almost completed seven loads of laundry.  Well, it was seven loads of laundry.  Now it's eight, because several things didn't dry all the way in the dryers, so now they are drying.  And we're in the process of folding and putting everything else away.  Oh, and a deck of cards was left in one of the boys shorts, and most got torn to little pieces and spread over almost everything.  That was fun.  Totaled, it all cost around $25, and a huge chunk of our time today.  Whoopee. :)

One more thing: yesterday morning us kids were sitting down to breakfast, while Mom was sitting in the back of the RV on her laptop or something.  Dad opened up the window and promptly called back to her, "Look, honey - we have new neighbors!"  Living on the road has certainly been a bit, ah, different, shall we say. :)  But I am absolutely loving it!!  God bless y'all with a great weekend and a great day of rest!!

P.S. Wow - I didn't know I have a storm named after me, Mr. Robert!!  Cool.  I looked it up, and I had two hurricanes named after me, too - one was before I was even born!  God must have told them to name if after me. :)  Hmmm...now that I think about, maybe two hurricanes and a storm named after me isn't exactly a good thing. :) But it's still kind of cool - and all three were spelled correctly: N-I-C-O-L-E, without an 'H'.
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Christa
9/25/2010 07:06:56 am

I LOVE DC!!!! I went there the same year I visited Williamsburg. My favorites were the Library of Congress, Nation Mueseum of Archives and my last and favoritest was the Jefferson Memorial. You have to see it!!! It has the best breeze ever and is really beautiful. Did u know that Andrew Jackson built it just to block his view of congress cuz he hated them!

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Robert
9/26/2010 05:04:30 am

WOW!!, you are back with a vengeance. Which is a good thing.

I have been to DC a couple of times, and it is truly a neat place. They say if you tried to spend 1 second or 1 minute (not sur which) in fron of everything the Smithsonian has on display it would take a year or more to do it.Maybe another time, I guess.

Camera sounds like a great addition for your trip. Pictures are great.

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Rachel Mull
9/26/2010 09:07:42 am

You should start asking peaple if you can put their names in your posts

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Rachel Mull
9/26/2010 09:21:07 am

I'm also glad you got a camera. That'll be nice to have your own camera. so you dont have to wait all the time for any one.

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Rachel Duran
9/26/2010 09:32:38 am

Nicole, those pictures are so good! You must your camera around everywhere. You know, I've been to Washington D.C. before! I went there when my Grandpa found out he had cancer. He was there on vacation when he needed a doctor check, that's when they found out that he had cancer. The whole family rushed over there as fast as we could. It was really strange there. It was SOO expensive! I hope you have a better time there then I had.

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Rachel Duran
9/26/2010 09:35:42 am

Whoops! I forgot to put the word 'Have' During my 2nd sentence! Uh-oh! Now the whole world is gonna think I have horrible grammer! AHHHHH!!! I really hope my Language Art's teacher doesn't see that comment...

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    I am your untypical 13-year-old girl (well, I like to think of myself that way). :)  I love my Savior, Jesus Christ, and I try my best to obey my awesome God.  I like writing and enjoy reading even more. My favorite Christian author is Nancy Rue.  My two favorite colors are teal and fuchsia.  I love animals, especially dolphins, dogs, cats, and horses.  My favorite Christian radio stations are JoyFM and K-Love, and some of my favorite  Christian singers and bands are Francesca Battistelli, Britt Nicole, Chris Tomlin, Matthew West, J.J.Heller, Mandisa, MercyMe, Casting Crowns, Sidewalk Prophets...the list goes on and on and on.  I am home-schooled and I love it!  I lovespending time with the wonderful friends God has blessed me with!  I love my family who I always thank God for.  :)  By the way, I am a TRIPLET, with three brothers, Nathan, Noah, and the youngest by a year and a half, Nicholas.  God has blessed me abundantly, and I can't wait to see what He has in store! God bless!!


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