Welcome to our Bed and Breakfast!
June 2-9
Robert left for a conference, so Stephanie came to spend the week with me. We went to Virginia Beach for 2 nights, and then came back home to watch a ridiculous amount of sappy, girly movies.
June 9-14
Robert's mom, aunt, adult cousin, and her 2 teenagers arrive. We went to DC and Virginia Beach while they were here, and showed them around Richmond some. We took them out to Thai food for the first time, but I don't think any of them are ever going back for it again.
June 22-27
Robert's dad, 2 aunts, 5 teenage cousins, and 1 of their friends arrive. No DC this time, but we did go to Virginia Beach and toured a lot of the Richmond Civil War sites with Tony, Robert's dad.
June 29-July 3
My mom, dad, stepdad, brother, sister-in-law, and baby nephew are here. We went to DC for the day, and to Medieval Times. We also went to Kings Dominion and played in the water park all day. The next day we left for Virginia Beach (my dad's, stepdad's and Peyt's first time in the ocean).
We had a great time this month, and got to see almost everyone in our family! All of them except for the June 22-27 crew stayed with us in our apartment. We were tired when it was all over but sad to see them go. We couldn't rest though, 2 days after the last tour group left, we left too--for ........
AFRICA!
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
April
Ashley came out to visit on her way to a dance thing in DC, and Stephanie unexpectedly got sent to DC for work the same weekend! So, change of plans, I went to DC with Ashley and hung out with the both of them for the weekend. It was the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, but it was so cold that most of them didn't bloom. Nevertheless, we had a great time. Here's proof:
One of the few blooms I saw.
The obligatory White House shot.
Do you see the resemblance?
More parade floats
One of the few blooms I saw.
The obligatory White House shot.
Do you see the resemblance?
More parade floats
March
We went to Philadelphia for my conference. It was a great time, and the first time either of us had been there. We had good weather at first, so we walked to ChinaTown and ended up eating Malaysian food (another first). While were there VCU played Duke (and beat) in the first round of the NCAA Tourney. The next morning was my talk and VCU was on the cover of the USA Today that everyone at the hotel got outside their door. I started my talk by saying I was from VCU-you know, the school on the front page of USA Today? No one laughed or cracked a smile. Tough crowd.
It snowed after that but that didn't slow us down. We saw the traveling King Tut exhibit and went to the Museum of Fine Arts like Rocky. A kind Philadelphian sang the "Rocky song" the whole way as we ran up the steps. I guess it's the City of Brotherly Love after all.
Here are some pics.
The Liberty Bell
Independence Hall
(This is where Robert asked the Park Service guy if the movie "National Treasure" was filmed here, after we tried to find the brick and clue that the main guy found in the movie. Yes, we're nerds.)
Us and Rocky
My Favorite Picture
It snowed after that but that didn't slow us down. We saw the traveling King Tut exhibit and went to the Museum of Fine Arts like Rocky. A kind Philadelphian sang the "Rocky song" the whole way as we ran up the steps. I guess it's the City of Brotherly Love after all.
Here are some pics.
The Liberty Bell
Independence Hall
(This is where Robert asked the Park Service guy if the movie "National Treasure" was filmed here, after we tried to find the brick and clue that the main guy found in the movie. Yes, we're nerds.)
Us and Rocky
My Favorite Picture
Thursday, September 27, 2007
I'm pathetic
It's been almost 7 MONTHS (!!!) since we've posted anything! That's kind of inexcusable. Honestly, there for a few months I forgot about the blog altogether. Since March we've done a lot of things. Here's a brief rundown. I'll go month by month...
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Well Hello There!
Things that have happened since we (I) last posted:
1) We paid to watch people fight. I mean, they called it Ice Hockey, but whatever. It was a lot of fun. I think that everyone should watch at least one live hockey game in their life. It brings out something primitive in you. Richmond has a small traveling team. We took a friend from India and one form South Korea. I don't believe either of them were impressed. They were more likely terrified of my unintelligble screaming.
2) VCU won the our conference championship! Now off to the Big Dance. We got to go the game and it was very exciting. Many people rushed the floor, but Robert and I opted out of that madness. A sure sign that we officially "old" now. How do you like Robert's mullet? Nice, huh?
3) I got a myspace account. www.myspace.com/starryrachel
4) A paper that I wrote was accepted to a conference so we are off to Philadelphia for a long weekend this week (Wednesday-Sunday). It should be fun. I'm a bit nervous about the presentation though, but I figure it's just 20 minutes--I can suck it up.
5) We have decided to go to Africa for a short-term mission trip this summer!!! We are so excited! We'll be in Niger, West Africa for 2 weeks in July. We're currently trying to raise the funds that we need to go, as well as let churches know so that they can be praying for us. Here's the organization we're going with: www.linkniger.com (I wonder if this will work?).
Things that have not happened:
1) Robert has not spent any of his $50.00 Barnes and Noble giftcard from Christmas, which is killing me. I can think of a billion things I want from there, and he can't come up with one good one.
2) We have not figured out how to keep our apartment at the minimum level of cleanliness/organization necessary for sanity. If anyone wants to come over, we seriously need like a year's notice. For real, book the couch and futon now, and they might be uncovered when you get here--but no promises. (And please no one suggest FlyLady or I'll lose it--I'm that close.)
1) We paid to watch people fight. I mean, they called it Ice Hockey, but whatever. It was a lot of fun. I think that everyone should watch at least one live hockey game in their life. It brings out something primitive in you. Richmond has a small traveling team. We took a friend from India and one form South Korea. I don't believe either of them were impressed. They were more likely terrified of my unintelligble screaming.
2) VCU won the our conference championship! Now off to the Big Dance. We got to go the game and it was very exciting. Many people rushed the floor, but Robert and I opted out of that madness. A sure sign that we officially "old" now. How do you like Robert's mullet? Nice, huh?
3) I got a myspace account. www.myspace.com/starryrachel
4) A paper that I wrote was accepted to a conference so we are off to Philadelphia for a long weekend this week (Wednesday-Sunday). It should be fun. I'm a bit nervous about the presentation though, but I figure it's just 20 minutes--I can suck it up.
5) We have decided to go to Africa for a short-term mission trip this summer!!! We are so excited! We'll be in Niger, West Africa for 2 weeks in July. We're currently trying to raise the funds that we need to go, as well as let churches know so that they can be praying for us. Here's the organization we're going with: www.linkniger.com (I wonder if this will work?).
Things that have not happened:
1) Robert has not spent any of his $50.00 Barnes and Noble giftcard from Christmas, which is killing me. I can think of a billion things I want from there, and he can't come up with one good one.
2) We have not figured out how to keep our apartment at the minimum level of cleanliness/organization necessary for sanity. If anyone wants to come over, we seriously need like a year's notice. For real, book the couch and futon now, and they might be uncovered when you get here--but no promises. (And please no one suggest FlyLady or I'll lose it--I'm that close.)
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Long time no see
That's something that people say all the time back home. It most definitely applies now. I can't believe how long it's been since I've been on here. Here's a quick update:
Thanksgiving
We got off 1/2 a day on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and one of front tires blew out on the way home from work, so we spent the afternoon getting that fixed. I watched Dr. Phil in the car shop waiting area, and that's exactly what I would have been doing at home anyway. At least this way, Robert was trapped and had to watch it with me.
The next day we ate leftover Vietnamese (a very traditional Thanksgiving meal) for lunch and packed up and headed to West Virginia. We got to Charleston around 9:00 pm, checked in, called the fam (Mom, Beege, Jarrod, Kerri, and Peyton) and found out that they hadn't left yet. Nice. Then we ventured off in search of food and found a Cracker Barrell so we got our turkey and dressing after all. It was maybe the best dressing I've ever had. For real. Robert and I went back to the hotel, swam for a bit and went to sleep on the VERY uncomfortable sleeper sofa.
I was awoken at about 2:00 by someone violently shaking me by both arms. I didn't speak just hit Robert over and over to try to get him to wake up and do something about the serial killer in our room. Turns out it was just Jarrod, who thought that would be really funny. He was way wrong. Since I don't hear that well, I didn't hear them all come in and shout "We're Here!" and turn on all the lights. I was just jarred awake and really thought that someone had broken in the room. Jarrod showed me the giant scratches I had left on his arms the next day. I'm pretty sure he deserved it.
We had a great time together. We went bowling (Robert won, but Peyton was the cutest), ate at a decent seafood place, played laser tag and did go-carts, and went to a Japanese Steakhouse on Jarrod's birthday. This was mine and Rob's first time at one of these places, and it was a lot of fun. Note to all those who've never played laser tag: GO! It was sooooo much fun. I thought that I would hate it, but it was a blast. We parted ways on Sunday afternoon after lunch.
Christmas
We had a great time in KY for Christmas. I got to see Stephanie and Ashley in Richmond before going on home for the week between Christmas and New Year's. We did a lot of traveling once we were there as well. First to IN to Ma's, then to Lexington for the UK-EKU game (our Christmas present to our dads), and then to Indianapolis for the Colts game on New Year's Eve. It was awesome! I want to do it again next year, but I don't really see that happening. We got to see Trevin play a basketball game and also got to spend a lot of time with the 2 baby nephews as well. They are both very cute, and have very different personalities. Hard to believe that we will have 5 nephews pretty soon! Crazy. We played board games a lot and laughed a lot. I love our giant combined family.
It was really great to be home, but sad as well, since we don't know when we'll be back. Maybe it's everyone's turn to come see us again!
-Rachel
Thanksgiving
We got off 1/2 a day on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and one of front tires blew out on the way home from work, so we spent the afternoon getting that fixed. I watched Dr. Phil in the car shop waiting area, and that's exactly what I would have been doing at home anyway. At least this way, Robert was trapped and had to watch it with me.
The next day we ate leftover Vietnamese (a very traditional Thanksgiving meal) for lunch and packed up and headed to West Virginia. We got to Charleston around 9:00 pm, checked in, called the fam (Mom, Beege, Jarrod, Kerri, and Peyton) and found out that they hadn't left yet. Nice. Then we ventured off in search of food and found a Cracker Barrell so we got our turkey and dressing after all. It was maybe the best dressing I've ever had. For real. Robert and I went back to the hotel, swam for a bit and went to sleep on the VERY uncomfortable sleeper sofa.
I was awoken at about 2:00 by someone violently shaking me by both arms. I didn't speak just hit Robert over and over to try to get him to wake up and do something about the serial killer in our room. Turns out it was just Jarrod, who thought that would be really funny. He was way wrong. Since I don't hear that well, I didn't hear them all come in and shout "We're Here!" and turn on all the lights. I was just jarred awake and really thought that someone had broken in the room. Jarrod showed me the giant scratches I had left on his arms the next day. I'm pretty sure he deserved it.
We had a great time together. We went bowling (Robert won, but Peyton was the cutest), ate at a decent seafood place, played laser tag and did go-carts, and went to a Japanese Steakhouse on Jarrod's birthday. This was mine and Rob's first time at one of these places, and it was a lot of fun. Note to all those who've never played laser tag: GO! It was sooooo much fun. I thought that I would hate it, but it was a blast. We parted ways on Sunday afternoon after lunch.
Christmas
We had a great time in KY for Christmas. I got to see Stephanie and Ashley in Richmond before going on home for the week between Christmas and New Year's. We did a lot of traveling once we were there as well. First to IN to Ma's, then to Lexington for the UK-EKU game (our Christmas present to our dads), and then to Indianapolis for the Colts game on New Year's Eve. It was awesome! I want to do it again next year, but I don't really see that happening. We got to see Trevin play a basketball game and also got to spend a lot of time with the 2 baby nephews as well. They are both very cute, and have very different personalities. Hard to believe that we will have 5 nephews pretty soon! Crazy. We played board games a lot and laughed a lot. I love our giant combined family.
It was really great to be home, but sad as well, since we don't know when we'll be back. Maybe it's everyone's turn to come see us again!
-Rachel
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