Challenge at suzyqscraps.com

Grandbaby playing in the tub.
















Credits: template by Jen and Giggle Monster kit by SuzyQ

Heading Home

The last couple of days we were in New Mexico where with every hill and turn, there was new sights of desert to see.  From there, to Arizona and went to the Petrified Forest National Park, the Grand Canyon National Park and Wupatki Sunset Crater Volcano National Park. Simply spectacular! With this type of driving cross country and basically moving from sea level to elevations of 7,000 feet and from close to ocean to desert dryness, must be like having jet lag. Also, including the numerous time zones. Hasn't really stopped us from doing what we want but it is a good thing there are pictures to remember what happened from one day to the next.

Heading Home

Saw the arch in St. Louis, Missouri

Moved from Eastern to Central Standard Time

The cows came galloping towards the fence.

I didn't know cows could gallop.

Heading Home

Left Ohio and staying overnight in Indiana.

The things you learn on the back of trucks!

Heading Home

Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio

1956 Caribbean Convertible and Hardtop was the last of the full sized packards and the most expensive in inventory. The mum was under renovation and expansion. It was ovbvious that things were moved from a bigger space to a smaller space as cabinet displays were blocked with vehicles and motorcycles. A number of the vehicles were covered with tarp.

McKinley Historical Museum in Youngstown, Ohio a monument of William McKinley, United States President assinated in 1901. The Vice-President, Theodore Roosevelt became President. The museum wasn't open due to floor replacement.

In entering Warren, Ohio from the interstate the exit lane is on the left side. It is evident that left side exists are not that common with the word "left" being capitalized and in a different color from the other words.  Left exists are common in the New England area. It is also common to merge onto the interstate from the left.

Heading Home

Driving behind a self-propelled gun on a flatbed truck and here I thought it was a tank.

Stayed and walked around in Lock Haven, PA

These two are paintings on the side of a building in a back alley.

Movie Time

Saw the movie Avatar in 3D - amazing. A mixture of actors and animation - simply amazing. Over 2 hours long and enjoyed it ever so much.  In the previews, there must of been three more movies that were being previewed as 3D.  There were some in 3D last year and seems to be even more this year.

Off to see Alice in Wonderland next week.

Scrap Time

Credits: Template and Serendipity Add On kit from

suzyqscraps.com

There was a challenge at logyourmemory.com using the template and kit from SuzyQ Scraps.  I was looking at the gallery on Log Your Memory and each layout was quite different using mostly the papers and elements of what was supplied. The journaling on my page is about a stroll in Central Park: "It was my good fortune that I went back and got my umbrella for our trip to New York City. Many people were using their umbrella during the wet, heavy snow storm. I have never experienced that."

Mamma Mia

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On Friday, we went to the Broadway performace of Mamma Mia in New York City and on Sunday we watched the movie. Fun, fun, fun!

CT Time

We spent the last couple of days driving around Connecticut taking pictures of town monuments, soldiers, canons and historical sites. The places we went to are:
East Lyme
Niantic
New London
Groton
Stonington
Mystic
Ledyard
Norwich
Lebanon
Colchester
New Haven
East Haven
North Haven
Wolcott
Prospect
Naugatuck
Seymour
Woodbury
Milford
Derby
Ansonia
Still need to look at the picture gallery, lots of pictures taken.

Class Time

Here is a layout I did in class at jessicasprague.com  I quite like this page.

CT Time

The other day we drove through the countryside, here in Connecticut, stopped and took historic monument pictures in these towns:
- Putnam
- Windsor Locks
- Killingly
- Eastford
- Suffield
- Ellington
- Brooklyn
- East Hartford
- Willimantic

Movie Time

We saw the movie "Edge of Dark" with Mel Gibson.  It was interesting to see landmarks in the movie that we have been to during our travels here.

Class Time

Took me awhile to do this layout (didn't track the length of time). A little frustrating but once I got past that, quite excited on how it turned out.  This template is from the Up and Running course at jessicasprague.com and learned about:
- sizing, nudging, aligning photos
- added a title using the lasso tool, change colour, align letter spacing
- used the custom shaped tool for bullet points in the text listing
- used the ellipital marquee tool for drawing ovals around month/day/year, changed thickness and colour
- and last but not least a taste of what brushes are and how they are used.
Cool!