without a camera cord, with a camera phone

In the mad rush of things to completely pack up my 3rd grade classroom and move it to the classroom next door and then pack/close up our apartment for the summer and get me and my stuff to DC, I grabbed the wrong cord to hook up our camera to the computer. Who knows what attaches to the cord I brought (I think that cords spontaneously reproduce). So, we have lots and lots of pictures on our camera and none on our computer. Luckily my little sisters, Emily and Allison, are coming to visit and will arrive with all of the camera cords from our apartment. Hopefully one of them will work!

In the mean time, I have been taking pictures with my phone and thanks to snapfish.com, you may now enjoy them. The quality isn't the greatest, but you will get the idea.

This was one of our first weekends here. I met up with Don after work and we went and saw some of the monuments at night. (They're 10 times better at night). Behind us is the Washington Monument...that you can't see, but that's okay. (The cord is coming!!). 

The last two weeks we have been lucky enough to have Don's sister, Lauren, visiting us. She returned last December from serving in the Peace Corps in Cameroon. It was fun meeting some of her Peace Corp friends and trying Cameroonian and Ghanian food (which actually turned out to be pretty good). The best being fried plantains and peanut soup (yum). While Don was at work, we shopped...alot. It was great having her and some of her friends here.

The fourth of July is my favorite holiday, and it was even better being able to celebrate it with Don, Lauren and her friend, Eliza in DC. (Plus it's our first 4th of July being married). On Saturday we had some of the other intern couples from the ward over for a BBQ. Then we headed over to the Capitol for the dress rehearsal of the 4th of July concert. While we were waiting, we played the card game, Scum. That game was a staple in high school, but Don and Lauren had never played it. We had some pretty good/hilarious competitiveness going--especially when Don ended up being scum for 5 rounds in a row. But in the end, he rose to power and I ended the game as scum! The dress rehearsal was really fun, there were some stand-ins for some of the performers, but the stand-ins were pretty hilarious. Sunday evening we went over the Air Force Memorial (by the Pentagon and much closer to our condo in Alexandria) and watched the fireworks. It was the perfect location--not too crowded and not only could you see the fireworks on the Mall, you could see them going off all across the skyline! It was neat!

    This is not the greatest picture, but you get the idea. Imagine fireworks going off all along the skyline--amazing!!

This afternoon Emily and Allison come in town to visit for a few days and then I am off to Utah for the weekend for a friend's wedding. Never a dull moment in the Willie house!