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photos: tacky light tour, richmond, virginia

Dec

2006

Each and every year, we make one pilgramage (at least) to the best in neighborhood Christmas light displays. To spice things up, this year we change from going to a neighborhood off Todd’s Lane in Hampton, to houses participating in the Tacky Light Tour in Richmond.

I had no idea this existed until I watched a Christmas special about it on TLC (or A&E). I’m not sure I am ready to give up Todd’s Lane, but it was great mixing it up with new material this year.

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photos: yorktown national battlefield, virginia

Dec

2006

We took Jackson on his first trip to a Revolutionary War Battlefield today, mainly as a way of keeping “the guys” occupied while “the women” hit the outlets north of town.

Not that I recommend it as an real-life exercise, but take a couple of minutes to think about how you would explain a 200 year-old war to a 4 year-old boy. As I was talking, I realized I sounded an aweful lot like George Dubya Bush explaining the Iraq war to America (evil-doers, defeding our country, protecting our families).

It was pretty creepy.

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photos: national maritime museum, norfolk, virginia

Dec

2006

Another something I haven’t done in over a decade, we took the whole family down to the National Maritime Museum (better known as Nauticus) in Norfolk, Virginia. It was great to spend quality time with my grandfather (whom I don’t see nearly enough of) and he docent-ed for us as we wandered around both the museum and the battleship parked out back.

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photos: christmas decorations, colonial williamsburg, virginia

Dec

2006

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Christmas in Williamsburg, and it’s time for the obligatory walk around the historic area (Colonial Williamsburg) looking at the Christmas decorations. For the first time since high school, though, we added the decidedly un-Colonial (but still spectacular) tree lighting on Christmas Eve.

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photos: christmas lights, washington, dc

Dec

2006

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I have one empty weekend between Thanksgiving and New Years this holiday season, and I took the Saturday night to wander around the staples of Christmas in DC: the Capitol Christmas tree, the train display at the U.S. Botanical Garden and the ice skating rink in the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden.

I am sure I should be out shopping, or home throwing a Christmas party, but it doesn’t look like either are going to happen this year. Perhaps it’s for the best.

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wedding: what’s next?

Dec

2006

If you thought it was uncomfortable reading my posts about bridesmaids dresses, it gets worse: Flowers.

I was practically a theatrical design major in undergrad, so I have a background in dresses and clothing (even if it is suppressed in the deep, dark, nether-regions of my brain that’s been reserved for NASCAR and Debbie Gibson appreciation up ’til now).

When Tasha was looking through Aria for bridesmaids dresses, she tripped on a series of flowers that she liked the look of. Fall colors (appropriate for that whole “October” thing) and very natural looking. No soccer-ball shaped bouquets that look like all the flowers have had the life squeezed out of them.

Tasha and I are both (for the most part) minimalists and traditionalist. Especially with nature, less is more, and simple is better that a veritable cacophony of color and organic matter.

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photos: national mall, national museum of natural history and view from washington monument, washington, dc

Dec

2006

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Day two of the Parker Brothers’ tour of DC.

This time we stayed much closer to home, including my first trip to the top of the Washington Monument since it reopened earlier this decade, a quick “thaw” trip to the Natural History Museum, and a jog around the sites on the National Mall.

Collin’s got a great eye, and you can check out his pictures of our tour on Flickr.

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photos: great falls national park and shenandoah national park, virginia

Dec

2006

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Day one of the Parker Brothers’ photo tour of the greater metropolitan Washington, DC area.

For Collin’s birthday in August, the family chipped in together and got him a gently used Canon 10d, and he has been taking at least one photograph a day ever since.

We started our two day shooting event on Saturday by heading west, hitting Great Falls and a drive by of the North District of the Shenandoah National Park.

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photos: d.c at night, washington, dc

Dec

2006

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After practically a year of trying, my brother is in town for the weekend.

He was originally supposed to come last March for the Washington DC Regional of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament (for those of you paying attention, that was the tourny where hometown-heros George Mason knocked off Connecticut). My sister-in-law went into labor about a month early, and so he missed possibly the two best days of basketball in recent memory.

After the first attempt didn’t work out so well, we tried to get together this fall for a couple of sporting events (a DC United and a Washingtion Nationals game) but he managed to herniate a disk in his back, and was on his butt for a couple of months.

Finally, this weekend, with only weeks left before his Southwest ticket expired, we got him down here for a Wizards game and a couple of days of R&R.

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travel: ctsg reunion, las vegas, nevada

Dec

2006

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I don’t have the time or the inclination or the mental fortitude to do my usual blog post per expedition this trip, so I have dumped everything into two batches of photos: the former contains the pictures I took while wandering the casinos, and the latter contains pictures of the CTSGers that showed up.

On a personal note, I had a great time in Vegas … even ignoring the drunken debauchery. It’s nice to have post-employment validation that I worked with an exceptional group of people, and we had a pretty excellent run.

Ah, closure.

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December, 2006

photos: tacky light tour, richmond, virginia

photos: yorktown national battlefield, virginia

photos: national maritime museum, norfolk, virginia

photos: christmas decorations, colonial williamsburg, virginia

photos: christmas lights, washington, dc

wedding: what’s next?

photos: national mall, national museum of natural history and view from washington monument, washington, dc

photos: great falls national park and shenandoah national park, virginia

photos: d.c at night, washington, dc

travel: ctsg reunion, las vegas, nevada

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