This is nothing more than a personal journal to remind me of my life when I get older and wanna reminisce. If anyone else gets anything out of it, awesome. My life is fairly mundane though. Typically it revolves around my dog, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, hiking, and traveling.
Where can you go to hang out with Presidents Obama and Clinton, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Johnny Depp, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry King, and other celebrities? The Madame Tussauds Wax Musuem! I don't usually like to spend money to get into a museum in DC since so many of them are free, but we scored free tickets to the wax museum and decided to check it out. We didn't expect much out of it (we've both when to one before), but actually ended up having a good laugh. I think the DC one is small compared to ones you can find in cities like London or New York, but they did a pretty good job of making all the wax figures accessible for great photo ops. Brad & I were running around getting photos with everyone :) Wouldn't have ever guessed we'd have so much fun in a wax museum.
First and foremost, a belated Happy New Year to everyone! I know I've been slacking on my blogging. Not a whole lot has happenned since Thanksgiving. Seems like I've been too busy shopping all of December. There were the Christmas presents I needed to buy for the kids, and I needed to restock my wardrobe since I gained like 10lbs since the summer. We did go snowboarding one day right after a big snow storm. Ski Liberty had a great deal going for a short period where you could get lift tickets, beginner lift pass, and lesson all for $39. Since Brad had never snowboarded before, thought it would be a good way for him to try it. Unfortunately East Coast conditions suck even after a snow storm and falling on the slope here is like falling on concrete. Brad fell a lot, as first time boarders do, and fell hard. I think I will have to buy him a full body armor if I want to get him to go again. I also need to buy proper protective gear (i.e. knee pad & butt pad) for myself if I'm going to convince myself to go in these conditions. The holidays were quiet but nice. Christmas was just the two of us, and the New Year's weekend was spent with my family again down near Charlotte. We rang the New Year in after a night of fun and games.
Reflecting back on this past year, the first half of 2009 seemed like a continuation of 2008 with very little change. I focused on my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training, and battled an addiction to Final Fantasy XII. Despite what I said back in '08, I still thought about traveling a lot. My first trip of the year was to Guatemala in March. Awesome trip. My second trip was to the Canadian Rockies, which turned out to be a life altering trip for me since I ended up marrying my friend that I went on the trip with! The wedding was in October so the latter half of the year was consumed with preparing for and adjusting to this new relationship status. Although it was a joyous time for us, I must admit it wasn't always so easy peasy. I couldn't have done it if it weren't for the patience of my very loving husband. We now start the new year together as a family and are looking forward to having more fun in 2010.
