Zoolights was fun the last two nights, but I forgot to bring my camera. I might ask at the zoo to see if any official pictures were taken. I saw several people with cameras on tripods, but they could just be photo enthusiasts. Saturday night was the only time I didn't sweat through my shirt and bandanna in the panda suit. That's because it was 25F ( Read more... )

We got off work 2hrs early today. Thanks, Mr. President! So I am relaxing at home with no plans to go back out until tomorrow night for Zoolights. You will have two more chances to see me rock out in a panda costume, tomorrow and Saturday. I will try to remember to bring my camera and ask one of the other volunteers to take pictures and/or video of ( Read more... )

I uploaded the few pictures I took in New York over Thanksgiving and the pictures from Zoolights' free volunteer night hereI'm mostly just bored since I got back from visiting Chip and Kerry in Mobile. They always have fun games to play. Tomorrow will be full of preparations for Christmas Eve festivities with Mom's side of the family. I'm looking ( Read more... )

Hurrah for a week of work where I only had to take 3 days of leave! Being home for the first time since I moved to DC was nice. Family was not too overwhelming. I flew in Saturday the 22nd for my uncle Jim's big Christmas party. Tons of people show up, and the food is always great. I learned the urban dictionary definition of an 'ambush Paddington ( Read more... )

Not that this should be news to anyone, but I just wanted to say it. I have uploaded all my Vegas pictures as well as pictures of the National Christmas tree from this weekend to my flickr pageFriday I didn't manage to get together with Toni, so I guess we'll try again this week. I did break up with Jim though. No one particular reason, I just didn ( Read more... )

So my trip to Vegas was pretty awesome. Pictures will be up later this week. We got to Vegas around lunch time on Friday and spent the afternoon checking out the Orleans, our hotel, and gambling a bit. The finals for the National Rodeo were happening that weekend, and all the rodeo pageant queens were also staying at the Orleans. We saw them going ( Read more... )