FAME

December 23rd 2009 Cindy Ivie and I were in the local paper the Logan Herald journal for going to every restaraunt in Cache Valley,UT we only have three more to go to. I would love to post the article here but it would not let me.If you want a link I would be happy to email you one myself.

I love to make a list and do everything on that list. When I was at Kathy's one night over a year ago I remarked that I thought I had been to every restaraunt in Cache Valley so I looked in the phone book and realized that I had not been to over FOURTY of them.

I asked several people if they wanted to go with me to visit food places and NOBODY wanted to go with me. They either did not have time or money or the desire to do it. They did not know they were giving up an opportunity to be in the paper!!!!

I asked my co-worked Cindy if she wanted to go and she said yes. We started out going to the places that MAKE food
we went to Gossners where I got one each of their flavored milk and we had so much fun tasting their cheese:)
we went to Lowers where I took home some meat
we went to Pepperidge where we bought a ton of stuff and had some goldfish samples
we went to Aggie Ice Cream and had their ice cream and some of the BEST SANDWICHES EVER!!! I highly reccommend the chicken salad there
we went to Caspers and had ice cream.
we went to The Bluebird and got an O'Aggie bar, a special bar native to this valley. I liked mine. I thought the food at the Bluebird was good and I really like the atmosphere in their. The service there is really slow though at least everytime that I have been in there and one time I found a hair in my salad there.
we went to Bluebird chocolates around easter and they had a huge easter bunny on sale that was 85$ and he was HOLLOW the chocolate there was good though:)

when we were done with all that Cindy said where should we go next and I thought well lets start going to all these places that I have not gone yet. So I had gone to a lot with Kathy or Kate or on various dates but then Cindy and I really got down to buisness we started going to a different restaraunt every week.

Over time our friendship grew at first we were just co-workers we became really good friends and we laughed and cryed. After I lost my job at Qwest in July 2009 I was happy that Cindy and I kept our tradition and frienship strong. Since we only saw each other once a week we sometimes would sit in restaraunts from about 4:40 until seven PM sometimes later we talk about EVERYTHING. It has been one of the highlights of my week and something I will REALLY miss when I move to VA I know that no matter how bad my week is I will have dinner with Cindy and we will laugh and have some good food.
Here is some of the restaraunts we have been to and what we thought of them-

I have been to the A & W fast food place in Smithfield when I was on a break from the thrift store and I LOVE THEIR LIMEAIDE!

Kate and I went to the Artic Circle in Preston and had fun getting their sweet pototo fries they were really good :)

we went to Blackstone in Logan when that was still open which is a VERY NICE place... I did not like my meal at all... the waiter even warned me not to get it but I did anyway... Blackstone has since closed down

we went to the Beehive Grill in Logan. we really enjoyed their homebrewed orange drink and rootbeer drink. There food was just OK.

I have been to Beto's for lunch it is OK

I have been to Big J's tons of times since that is the nearest fast food place to me. I like a lot of the stuff that they have.

I don't really like Burger King

WE BOTH LOVE BURGERZ EXPREZZ in Smithfield, that place has great service and good fries and really really really good food :)

I LOVE CAFE RIO- been to ones all over UT :)

I really like Cafe Sabor. I have been there on dates, with Qwest and with Kathy and with Kate everytime I have loved what I have gotten:)

Caffe Ibis had great sandwichs all though they made us pay extra for our drinks but would include coffee in with their meal deal which I thought was lame.

Carls Jr is OK

Center St. Grill is OK

Chilis is OK

I really like the Copper Mill I went there on a date once back in 2005 this guy was like yeah arn't you lucky that you are on a date with me so I could find this cool restaraunt. He said I would not be able to find a cool restaraunt like that on my own... little did HE KNOW

El Sol was OK

El Toro Viejo was neat I had never been in a small authentic restaraunt like that

The Factory Pizzaria was SO GOOD! Kate and I went there and I loved it and I thank her for showing it to me :) Cindy and I had so much fun there, it was very much my kind of place and we got a TON of food!

Cantonese House in Smithfield... YUMMY!!!! I go there so much on my breaks from the thrift store that they say is this Keli?:)

I DID like the Firehouse, UNTIl Kathy and I went there one night and were treated VERY RUDE. I am never going back there... not even for a skookie there are to many good restaraunts to waste my time there..

Callaways in Smithfield was expensive but REALLY GOOD some of the best mac and cheese I have ever had ever :)

Frederico's was good I loved their salad :)

I have been to Golden Corrall lots of times in lots of states. it is what it is.

Hamiltons is WAY NICE. I have even been to a wedding reception once there with Kathy. I am just OK with the food though

IHOP- is well IHOP

Indian Oven was DELICIOUS great service great food we loved our meal there I want to copy all the stuff that we got there:)

I have eaten at Iron Gate Grill many times because they used to cater for Qwest and give us gift certificates. They have good food and it is a cool place

I love the Italian Place in Logan! they have great sandwiches!

Jamba Juice-is good

Juniper Take-out had some really yummy food and great fries

Kamin Thai food - was just OK I was a bit disappointed every other time I have had thai food it was way good this was just OK

Korean BBQ was great! great service great food!

LD's in Richmond was MY FAVORITE! I love that hometown yummy food! it just says Cache Valley

pupuseria el salvador was good my second little tiny authentic place

I really liked Logan's Hero's.

I have been to Mis Amores in Preston so many times for some reason people love to take me out to eat there. I really like it

the Olive Garden is just OK. Kathy and I went there last December (2008) and they sat us so close to the door that everytime someone came in a big gust of wind did also

panda express is good

papa johns and dominos are OK but I am a pizza hut girl :)

Papa Kelsey and Henrys was way good!

Pier 49 had great garlic bread.

I really liked the Pita Pit when I lived in Provo do they even have that here anymore?

quiznos and subway are good for lunch breaks

Taco Bell was rude to me so I try to not go there except on Halloween when they were giving out free Tacos and Matt and Shelli got some for me

Texas Roadhouse was DELICIOUS!!!! YUMM great bread great food!

wendys is good

I loved Wingers tortilla soup and their popcorn and their salad. I went there on my lunch break from Qwest a lot

I got Wok on Wheels a lot at Qwest too.

Yah Poh in Logan was great their empanada's were so good!

I also liked tummy yummies yogurt and concept

I love La Tienda in Franklin,ID that place has the best chicken strips EVER we loved our meal and the service there. It is my SECOND favorite place to eat

I really like The Cracker Barrell in Paradise too. They have delicious food

my friend Rachael and I went out to a place in Weston, ID called Papa Js or something like that and WE LOVED OUR food there too..

I am so sad to leave here but I can at least say that I have made my mark and I look forward to start going to places in Centreville,VA :)

I think that I will follow Cindy's tradition of always asking the waiter or waitress what they like I have gotten some really good food that way and I think that would help people like my mom that are almost PETRIFIED to try something new.She was so paranoid the first time that I took her to Taco Bell when I was a teen she wouldnt even ORDER she just went to McDonalds after and got something there... she needs to get out of that rut...

holiday

I love white elephant parties and I think that I want to have one every year. I have had this thought before... but the last time I had one I lived in Provo... that was a long time ago like maybe even five years ago or more... so I had one this year and I plan to have one next year and the next so that is good enough for me so here is a synopsis of Keli's white elephant party 2009!:)

I invited people, I meant to make cute invites and invite EVERYONE... but well I was not feeling good and um I did not so here is who came: I will not put their whole names because not everyone wants my blog to come up if they are googled
The ( P) family- Amy, Kent and Nathaniel

The ( N) family- Jeff, Megan, Silas, Livia and Lucy

The ( R) family -Carla and Jorge

The ( C) family- only Rachael and Taylor

The ( W) family Carol and Steve

Harley

and Carla and Jorge brought their friend Steve

everyone brought an appetizer or a dessert, Harley and I made a chex mix and put in cheez-its and pretzels :) When Harley and I went to Lee's I said that she could pick out what she wanted to bring she picked cinnamon rolls, so we had those too.

Amy brought oreo truffles YUMMY!
Carol and Steve brought 7 layer dip and chips
Rachael brought chips and dip
Megan brought homemade gingersnaps
Carla and Jorge brought a big tin of cookies
and that guy extra guy Steve did not bring anything

we ate some food, then I gave everyone a number and they were allowed to pick a gift even the kids played :)

I don't know if I can remember right what everyone got but I will try!
Keli- I got a box of hot chocolate
Harley- a book about cowgirls
Amy- she stole some stuffing from Jorge I am not sure what she had to begin with
Nathaniel got a little magnetic Cars thing
Kent-got some kimchi I would have ate some there because I like kimchi but Carol and Steve had all ready left and I was not sure how old it was...
Jeff - got some paper ornaments that Steve( the extra guy) had made
Taylor traded Steve ( the extra guy) for a kids book and some tootsie pops
Rachael -Im not sure???
I just remember that Amy also got a book about canning...
Livia - got a leopard print blanket that Harley had picked out at family dollar
Silas-??? some sort of food
Megan- a CD case
Lucy-???
Carla- some mens cologne
Jorge???
Steve- the extra guy got some dominos that Taylor gave him because she wanted the tootsie pops
Carol and Steve left early because they were going to FL.

afterwards people stayed and chatted. Carla, Jorge, the extra guy Steve and I watched a movie and Harley spent the night

it was a good party and I all ready have a gift for next year :)

holiday

My friends Amy and Kent had a Christmas Cookie Exchange Party at their house a couple of weeks ago and I was lucky enough to be invited:)

what you do is you bake a dozen cookies then bring them to the party and you can take a dozen home of any kinds of cookies that are there :)

my friends, Kathy, Marian, Rachael, and Brinna came and brought cookies too.

I made these cookies that I got out of the Paula Deen cookbook that was dough wrapped around a hersheys kiss. They tasted OK

Kathy made cake mix cookies

Marian's step-daughter Josie made no-bake cookies for her to bring and Marian made molassas cookies for her sister Rachael to bring.

Brinna made chocolate chip.

Amy made several kinds and all were good :)

VA day TWELVE

OK well... I went to bed at like 3 AM had to get up at 5Am.. .so um yeah... I called The Reston Taxi and told them when to be at Rob and Erin's and told them I did not get reception so if I did not answer just wait and I would be right out... so I saw them call and I ran out and guess what they were DRIVING OFF... I called them back and after like SEVERAL CALLS I got him to come back he was like you are late you will make ME late all day I was like I am not late, I am ready you were driving OFF!!! like sorry I was not out on the curb at like FIVE THIRTY AM...He then asked me to get to the airport and I said I did not really know... so even though he had a smart card he went all these backroads and I got to the airport just in time to WALK onto my plane... ISNT THAT AWESOME...

see what I mean about me leaving to go places insanly early..

I slept off and on the whole flight... because I was a bit tired...

when I got to UT there was no one to pick me up and it was a fiasco but my friend Marian's husband Vern got me a ride with a shuttle so I got home and was WIPED OUT!!!!!

and that is my trip :)

VA day ELEVEN

I do not know if I woke up at ... is the best thing to describe this day... lets just say when morning came I was in Centreville,VA at Heather's house. Luke and I stayed up until 6 AM then I had to get up at like 8AM to meet Danielle at Alamoot Rental Cars... so IDK that during those two hours I really SLEPT...

I met Danille at the rental car place we gave back the rental car then she drove me over to Rob and Erin's

This Sunday I was WAY thankful for ONE O CLOCK CHURCH!!!!!! oh my was I thankful... I somehow managed to get ready and look nice for church... probably the only think that kept me awake was adreniline thinking of the great conversation Luke an I had had and how much fun it was seeing all my friends...

church was good. I know I fell asleep during sacrement meeting at least one time... maybe more because I am not sure what they talked about I think some missionaries leaving for Brazil or Chile and how there is more than one in the stake going the same place and IDK if they were leaving or coming back or WHAT really???

during SS I had Emily so I had to stay awake we talked about putting on the whole armor of God and the teacher started out by asking us who had seen Gladiator and he was like no one wants to admit it??? I said I had but I was bored by it..he was like well there was fiery darts in it... he had this whole laminated armor that he had made that was really cool...

In VA it is hard to find modest clothes according to the women in this class. I said that they could go online and purchase some from UT companies that make modest clothes and this one lady acted like that was PREPOSTEROUS and said she would sew on her sleeves... like well go ahead.. I dont have a sewing machine...

we also talked about living the law of chastity since it was mostly married people in there they were like well just be intimate with your wife... I wish it were THAT easy since I am single I got a list a mile long that I have to follow and I am glad to do so:) I also want to say that even after staying up until six Am I could take the sacrament with a clear conscience WOOOHOO! that felt GOOD! :)

Rob and Erin teach SS kids that are like 9 or 10. They are great teachers!

It was the 5th Sunday and this guy that just got realeased from the Stake Presidency and his wife taught about marriage and how we bend apart but need to bend back together in marriage and how they had polled the stake and what people want in the stake.. this one lady was like well people in the world want a woman that wears lingerie... I was like what the??? first of all that is TOTALLY INNAPROPIATE to say.. and what??? then they were like people of the world want someone that makes a lot of money... I said no good people of the world want a good man or a good woman and if they don't they need counseling...like people of the world are not all TRASHY my heck... the guy teaching said good point... they later said that we want people that are good providers.. and how is that different from someone with money???? like if you are a good provider you have $ I mean that is how I see it any way...

after church Rob and Erin took me to Heathers in Centreville and I was able to meet her kids Lony who is 12 and April who is 8. we chatted then Heather had to go to the Giant in Clifton to pick up her friends son Dalton who worked there and we saw this man and he had on tight jeans and cowboy boots and a cowboy hat and shirt and a belt buckle and Heather was like WHOA CHECK HIM OUT and I was like who? and she was like that guy right there! and I said what and she was like where did he come from??? it is like he just dropped in from TX. I said that there were guys like that ALL OVER where I lived ... in fact I bet I could just go stand outside my door and see men like that driving by she was like whoa I did not know anyone looked like that that did not live in TX... I told her I have several pairs of cowboy boots and she was like and you WEAR them and I said I sure do:)

Heather took me back to Rob and Erin's and

Erin and I stayed up WAAAY to late then I was up until like 3 AM so yeah 6 AM one night and 3 AM the next ....

and you did not see a nap anywhere above...

VA day TEN

Alex and I woke up in Reston,Va at Rob and Erin's house. we got ready and went to Leesburg,VA. I love Leesburg,VA I don't know that I would ever LIVE in Leesburg, VA but I would DEFINATLY ( however that is spelled) live on the outskirts like Lucketts, or Lovettsville or something,..but I love Leesburg, you know what I love Lewiston too... It must be something about those towns that start with L... I love Leesburg because it has a cool old town with fun shops to go in. I also love it because it has SEVERAL thrift stores all within WALKING distance to each other. The thought of this is always amazing to me like how do you have the population of people getting rid of things to sustain this MANY thrift stores??? I mean there ares some Saturdays at Somebodys Attic where we get in nothing.. or nothing but junk... so Alex and I were up there going through shops etc.

when we got there I had to ask some man to help me parallel park they were standing there and staring at me trying to do it so I thought I might as well get them involved then one of them with a mullet followed Alex and I into a few different stores until Alex asked me in one why is that guy following us, I said IDK but he looks like white trash... and then we did not see him any more...

we went into this one store that sells witchcraft stuff..they had all this stuff on the wall that I have only heard of in Harry Potter or episodes of Buffy and Angel, like hold on WAIT this stuff exists... I was like oh my all of a sudden I am in diagon alley... and we are just a couple of muggles... they had all kinds of spells for sale and potions and well WOW. we also bought some 40 cent candles that if we burn them will give us psychic abilities.... they gave us a reciept like a mile long that told us all the abilities that we would have if and when we burn these candles. I have not burnt mine yet ...and when I do please no that it is just for fun and I love candles and please dont read more into it because there is nothing more to read into it...I got a picture of Alex with a magic wand for sale and this guy said "careful that thing is loaded"when Alex was waving it around...

we found some jeans for Christopher, Alex's 8 year old brother at a thrift store we found him FOUR pairs for 9 $ and they were Old Navy and Lands End. We did not find anything for us though :(

We also went out to eat at a cool place called Leesburg Diner we had a cool waiter named Garrett who I forgot to tip... so I now need to go back there..

We then went to a park called The Red Rocks Wilderness Overlook Park... is that a long enough name?? and Red Rock where in VA has red rock??? I don't know if they do because I did not have time to walk out to the overlook BUT they had all these old buildings and you KNOW I LOVE taking pictures by old buildings so I got some BEAUTIFUL pictures of me and Alex by these old buildings.

Then we went back to Rob and Erin's to get ready for my high school reunion that I PLANNED! :) well... I tryed my BEST to plan it...We ended up at Dennys in Fairfax,VA it was attended by :

Shiloh and his wife Mary who live in Sterling,VA and have two REALLY cute little girls Beth and Ashley they all came.

RACHEL - who lives in Tacoma,WA Rachel was one of my BFF's in HS. I was so happy to see her! she looks THE SAME and is still amazing. Rachel is the kind of girl that makes everyone happy and laugh just to be around her everyone loves Rachel :) in fact when we were leaving this one guy was begging her to stay and hang out there but she came with us to the after party at a bar :)

BETH- who lives in Sterling,VA Beth is one of my BFF's from HS and well I love Beth and had been with her daughter Alex all day taking pictures and buying jeans for her son Chris. Beth is amazing and she looks that same. She is absolutly beautiful :) She came to the after-party and Dan took her home

Dan and his wife Stefani came- Dan rode my bus and we had a lot of adventures together for sure. I think that at some point after HS Dan may have hit a growth spurt because I don't remember him being so tall??? He lives in Round Hill,VA Dan was so fun that night he was funny and fun! I am so glad that I got to meet Stefani his wife:)

Don- from NC came

Ed - from Williamsburg,VA came

Don and Ed were BFF in HS and I am glad that they still keep in touch. It was really nice to see them there and they seemed to have a lot of fun :)

Zack that graduated from CLC when I was a freshman that no one there really knew came. He seemed like a nice man.

Leann- who now lives in Stafford,VA came she seems to be doing well in life and happy she looks very similar to that she did in HS. It was nice to see her.

Dean - who now lives in Gainesville, VA came He was a lot of fun.

HEATHER- who now lives in Centreville,VA came she was so much fun!!! Heather was one of my BFFs in HS and I was also very happy to see her she looked amazing and I had so much fun with her :)

LUKE- who is Heather's twin brother that lives in South Riding,VA came he was one of my really good friends in HS and my BFF's brother, I guess I used to call him Lukey a lot in HS but for some reason 35 year old Keli just wants to call him Luke.

Ambur- that now lives in maybe Arlington,Va came she looked amazing

Missy- who lives in Herndon,Va came with her and Luke's daughter Megan who is SO CUTE! and her GF, Elizabeth who I got to know and Elizabeth is for sure one of the coolest people I have ever met! :)

Jill- who lives in Washington DC. she looked so similar and was a lot of fun...

so we had a little over 20 people there :) great turn out. if I put your name in caps then that means you were one of my BFF's in HS :)

Beth and I left Sterling,VA and that dumb Tom Tom GPS led us to MANASSAS!!!! it had also led Alex and I in CIRCLES the other night trying to get us from Reston to Sterling... Alex had been like um we are back at my moms and I am like what the??? then when we went to the park it led Alex and I into a town house neighborhood and then in circles in there... I was like do they want me to PARK in here and WALK to the park because I could SEE the park from the townhouses... but there was parking at the park so IDK what ?? so this GPS leads us to Manassas... I was iffy when I got off on this one exit.. but I thought well maybe the freeway loops around here and goes back toward Fairfax but then I saw this sign for Manassas National Battlefield and I thought um NOOOOOO... and then another sign with how many miles it took to get to Gainesville and Warrenton... I was like OH NO WE ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!!! and Beth was like NO IT SAYS TAKE A RIGHT!? and I was like I DONT CARE WHAT IT SAYS THAT IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY and Beth was like how do you know? and I was like BECAUSE I LIVED HERE and I know where I am and there is no way that THAT is the right way...so I pulled into a gas station and GPSed it on my phone and we were there in like 10 minutes PHEW those Tom Tom GPSs SUCK they serioulsy SUCK!!!!!!!!! YUCK....

Shiloh and his family and Rachel were all ready there. Then Dan and his wife and Leann got there so we asked to be moved over to another area. ...

Even though I had called that morning and told them that we were going to have a big party they acted like it was news to them and seemed very put off that we had that many people coming... the waiter Purma also kept asking me to order... I finally told him that WHEN I WAS READY TO ORDER I WOULD ... I got a pomegranate blueberry lemonade which was not the best but not horrible either and Rachel and I shared nachos that were SO FREAKIN GROSS!!!!!! I got sick of looking at them after a bit... we also got turtle pie that was GROSS!!! so um yeah next year we are doing something different...like not going to Dennys cause YUCK!!!!and that waiter I mean if he had refilled my water anymore than it would have been all over the table...

I sat in a booth with Leann and Dan and Stefani and Beth . Rachel was on one side of me and almost everyone sat on the other side of me, Heather, Ambur, Leann, Jill, lots of people and Luke was behind me. being the social butterfly I am I got up and talked to a lot of people though

when that guy Zach got there I just had no idea what to say??? I mean none of us knew him and I wanted to be christlike and go over there and talk to him but there were so many people that I was friends with in HS that I had to talk to first and well yeah that is how it goes...

in HS I took this picture of Dan, Don and Ed against a wall at CLC They had me take a re-creation photo at Dennys which I would say is not my best work. I think that next time I need to take a MUCH better picture... but some of that is my fault because there was this man there that was balding and had on a low cut shirt and a gold necklace and a Nascar jacket and I decieded I needed to take a picture of him and show it to Rachel IDK why?? so I kept trying when I was doing the re-creation photo but my camera is broken so it did not turn out... so then I sat back down and made Luke scoot over and tryed to take another picture and I have no idea why but me and Luke and Rachel and Dan and Heather just thought this was SO FUNNY.... even if you were there I don't think you would get it ...but we thought it was funny...

after Dennys we all went over to a bar really near there called the Auld Shebeen or something like that... I was really against going to a bar and had NO PLANS to go.. but I was having so much fun with those people I thought why not I dont have any issues with drinking or smoking... Dan and Stefani, Heather, Rachel, Beth,Dean, Jill and Luke and I went over there. I was surprised because when you go into a bar here it is the trashiest sluttiest girls... for the most part and the most redneck guys for the most part... like that is a big population of people that go to bars here... So Dean and Dan were buying people rounds.. I did not drink anything at all because I was not thirsty and I did not want to be going to the bathroom all night... I got us a booth and we had a lot of fun sitting in that booth talking...eveyone got some form of drunk except for Luke and me. Luke only drank one beer at the beginning and then that was all. He also did not smoke IDK who else smoked or did not smoke... cause I was mostly sitting in this corner with Luke on one side of me and I know he did not smoke.

We had to leave because they had last call and because the bouncer started screaming at us to get out of there like FIVE MORE MINUTES !!!!! IDK why I mean im sure he wanted to stay there all night and not go home hahahahah

Rachel gave me a ride over to Luke's car and Luke drove me and Heather back to her house in Centreville, VA

Then all three of us talked until Heather passed out

Then Luke and I stayed up until SIX AM talking. I put his picture above because we had a really good conversation and it was just a great ending to a great day :)

VA day NINE

I woke up in Reston,VA at Rob and Erin's :) Danielle and I had planned to go to The Newseum, The museum in news in Washington DC. She was staying in Alexandria,VA so she left from the Huntington Metro and I left from the Vienna,VA metro. I took the orange line to metro center then the yellow line to navy/memorial/archives/penn station... is that a long enough name for a station??? and that is where Danielle and I met.

We walked a short walk to The Newseum. In two places at The Newseum they have a newspaper from every state from THAT DAY they rotate around different papers. on the day that we went outside they had The Logan Herald Journal!!!! I had to look again like WAIT IS THAT LOGAN'S PAPER HERE IN DC at the NEWSEUM??? and yes it was!? They had one from Boise for ID. and for VA outside they had one from Charlottsville and inside one from Richmond. for UT inside they had The Salt Lake Tribune. just think that even the Preston Citizian and all those papers are there some days! :)

The Newseum was AWESOME!!!! we were able to see a large exhibit of pulitzer prize winning pictures then read the stories of what had happened with the photographer and the picture like before and after.. totally worth it..

We went and saw a 4D movie that was part of our 20$ admission price. We both loved that. our seats rocked and went back and forth as we went through time with a man in colonial times that saved a printing press so that we could have news and Nellie Bly that went undercover in a mental institution and was the first femal investigative reporter and Edward Murrow who was brave enough to report news from Loundon during the bombing so that America would know what was going on over there and help during ww2. WE BOTH LOVED THIS MOVIE

They had a few sections for kids like interactive things that kids could play on the computer or where they could pretend to be in the news and then buy a DVD of that.

We saw a 9/11 exhibit where they had a chunk of the world trade center and of the pentagon and then a huge wall of newspapers from all around the world from that day

there was a sports exhibit with some amazing photographs of different sports stars

there was a crime exhibit with different things from criminals that had made huge news like the mobsters from the 1920s and 30s to the DC sniper, they had a replica of the car they shot out of . They had waco, and a FBI agents uniform, they had the unabombers cabin, they had Patty Hearsts outfit she wore when she robbed that bank. They had stuff from Timothy McVeigh, stuff from some men that were spys that I have never heard of, stuff from watergate, so many things.

we saw a huge section of The Berlin Wall the largest outside of Germany and a guard tower

we saw a whole exhibit on the hunt for Lincoln's killer.

we saw an exhibit on Woodstock and pictures from that. The pictures were really cool.

we saw an exhibit of First Dogs dogs that presidents have and I hope everyone knows that the Obamas have Bo that Ted Kennedy gave them.

we saw some guy named Tim Russerts office. I had to look him up on wikipedia

we ate a very overpriced lunch at a Wolfgang Puck restaraunt they have there.

There was also a HUGE HUGE HUGE did I say HUGE screen where you could watch the latest news,nothing was really going on the day after Thanksgiving 2009 but imagine that room the day MJ died or something I bet that room was packed with people...

So that is all I can REMEMBER that we saw at The Newseum at this point in time...

while we were walking back to the metro we saw a man playing the buckets and I took a picture of him with Danielle because she said that she liked that kind of music:)

We got on our metros and we left:)

I called Beth and went over and visited with her family

Then I took Alex with me over to Rob and Erin's and we stayed up late taking pictures and playing around on FB

Alex got me into the game on there sorioity life... however that is spelled. I do not have a farm yet. ...

that is about all for that day :)