Sunday, January 31, 2010

Sabbath Doings

Church got cancelled (again) because of the snow. Seriously. It was like five inches and we would have been just fine. But, I guess I'm not complaining. So instead we went to the services at the National Cathedral. I assume most of you Shahas have been there already, but here's some pics to show the splendor of the place. I think it's like the 4th or 6th largest cathedral in the world (we didn't really have time for the tour). This pic shows how deep the place is... the lit up area in the back is where the altar is and where the services took place. Unfortunately, all the seats you see didn't exactly fill up... just the first couple of rows.

The stain glass was breathtaking...
The altar...
The organ pipes... the organ sounded beautiful, although the actual service was a little drab.


On the way home we stopped to take some pics as the sun was setting. This is the Memorial Bridge over the Potomac. The river was like a sheet of glass.
The Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is sticking out of the top of my head. Em wouldn't look at the camera because she was obsessed with the plane going over our head.

Bigotes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2EdEDVej2A

This is a really funny video. We should all get mustaches. Party on guys. Dave

Friday, January 29, 2010

RIP Mr. Salinger

J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye" undoubtedly the novel that influenced me the most growing up, passed away on Wednesday. The link below is for a nice tribute article from The New York Times. Thank you Mr. Salinger, for defining an entire age group regardless of generation and for being the one to truly write the great American novel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?pagewanted=1&hp

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Snow Baby



These were taken the first week of January. We no longer have all the snow that we did then, thank goodness. Lucy's hat is of course compliments of Nancy.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Welcome to Iowa

From the very first day we moved to Iowa, the locals warned us of the dreaded "ice storms" that grace each winter with their presence. Well, the ice has come and Iowa City has been turned into a giant hockey rink. You can't go anywhere on foot without feeling like you are going to fall on your face. Everything is literally covered in a sheet of ice and the pictures don't really do it justice.









My Yaktrax have really come in handy!















Will someone please tell me why I live here?!?




Saturday, January 16, 2010


EAGLES!










So there are like a gajillion bald eagles about a few blocks from our house! They all hang out by the dam on the Iowa river because the ice breaks up there and all the fisheys are easy targets. These pictures don't do the scene justice... we need a telephoto lens or something. They're awesome though. There's a bunch of dumb geese too and lots of ducks and these really huge brown birds that we're not sure what they are. Anyway, life is good and stuff. You guys are all awesome. By the way, I'm with Coco.