Nothing like waking up to yet another snowy early morning... |
Yes, this really is from March 6th... Fortunately this only resulted in a snow delay, not another snow day |
Dad had to play around with multiple exposures and some Photoshop filters... |
What do you when someone makes fun of your fashion sense? You show them you really have none! |
Here we are at Waco Mammoth National Monument. At least Dad managed to get the front of the sign in the picture... |
It was pretty cool to see the fossils in situ. They said they still have 60 more years worth of digging... |
Look at this one... Dad is one for five this time... |
We got to try to make our own "fossils" - really just imprints in clay but I didn't want to tell the people running the activity... |
Here we are rock climbing in Waco. This looks way more impressive than it was since it is really just a little playground rock! |
Dad took a picture of Mom taking selfie. Which is better? The picture or the selfie... |
See how small the rock was? Even Dad made it to the top! |
Nothing says little German town in West Texas like a Japanese Zen garden! |
OK... maybe this does... |
Three times the fun! (Just wait until later...) |
Dad dragged me up Enchanted Rock. I didn't understand what was so enchanting... |
If you look really closely you can see Mom and me. |
We saw some of the native fauna on top of the rock... |
This is us pretending to be happy on the way back down. |
Then we made Dad pretend to be happy to be in a picture too. |
Dad had to mess with the selfie of all of us being happy... |
Mom really wanted to see the blue bonnots but we didn't find any big fields of them... |
And don't get me started on how much fun we had trying to get me to smile for a picture in them... |
The blue bonnots really were pretty though. |
I had fun playing in the playground near Gran and Mad Dog's house! |
And just think how much fun six of me would be! |
Of course we didn't take any pictures of Gran or Mad Dog, but... |
Thanks for the super flattering flight home picture, Dad! |
I got back to Morgan before the end of the month. Dad had to mess with the camera... |
But that's nothing compared to the Photoshop work he did on this... this is just sawdust stuck to plywood! |
March... What can I say about March? If only there were some big sporting event upon which I could comment... It is so maddening because I just know there is something... I feel like it is going to drive me mad... Oh well. I'll get over it.
But you know what else is driving me crazy? Well, yes that is obviously at the top of the list, but I was just referring to the fact that it snowed again in March! Enough to delay the start of school for one more day! It was so upsetting that I didn't take any more pictures until we went to Texas for Spring Break. Yes, I know there is a picture between the snow pictures and Spring Break... Caroline took it, alright?! Give me a break! I can't always take all the pictures!
At least Spring Break was educational. I learned so many new things in Texas this year. I learned that the Columbian Mammoth was about 4 feet taller than the Wooly Mammoth and weighed twice as much (as much as 20,000 pounds.) I also learned that Enchanted Rock is actually a pink granite pluton batholith (and that climbing it in the day time is easier, but hotter, than climbing it at night.) I also learned that oak pollen now exacerbates my allergies just as much as the pollens in Oregon... lucky me!
What else did I learn? I learned that Lyndon Johnson is from Johnson City Texas. That is, of course, a lie. He is from Stonewall Texas, but Stonewall is an even smaller dot on the map than Johnson City, so Johnson City claims him as their own. But that is actually beside the point. The point is we went to Fredericksburg where there is the Admiral Nimitz World War II museum because Chester Nimitz was actually from Fredericksburg... Most people don't go for the museum though. They go for the shopping and the two dozen plus wineries that have sprung up between Johnson City and Fredericksburg.
Anything else? Well, I can recommend getting your passport renewed at the University of Texas at Austin. Other than the parking situation it was just delightful. The people really were very friendly and helpful and we got in and out in a snap. Of course the airfare from Oregon to Texas probably isn't really worth it just to get a passport...
I think that is probably enough rambling for this month. Talk at you later...