Memorial Day Parade

Monday, I woke up bright and early attend the annual Memorial Day Parade in Sylvania with mi madre and cousins. I needed something to shoot for my issue reporting assignment for this week and thought this would be a great place for cool pictures... If only Jake had worn his uniform, dang it! But thanks to him and all those who put their lives on the line for us everyday and make my job possible! I'm posting a ton of pics but I like 'em all so I hope you do too!

Happy Vet pointing and waving to friends watching parade

'American pup' with tongue sticking out

red,white&blue wreath thrown over bridge

soldiers in formation during taps

21 gun salute

cute little girl upset watching and waiting for candy

Jackie&Jake waving to other Vets on floats going by

Sylvania girls junior majorette group

"Dude, your roommate's a freak."

I haven't posted anything in a while, so here are some photos from the past few weeks. The first ones are from when Ash and Britt decided to dress up like super heroes and jump off of the beds onto the extra mattress... enough said.  Then there are some portraits of one of the girls downstairs and of the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences here at OU at a boy scout meeting, teaching the boys how to cook an egg on a stick.. don't ask. Gotta love Athens.

(*post title from She's The Man)

Palmerfest '09

Palmerfest was INSANE. Although I missed the end of it, I saw enough. The end was close to a riot and people were burning couches in the street, throwing full beer cans/bottles at the fuzz and their horses injuring them, kids getting maced and thrown down by cops and arrested. It was in Columbus papers and news. And no I didn't have my camera with me for any of this, I was to afraid something would happen to it. But I'm posting a link to a local paper's article, The Post and here is a video that was posted on YouTube today.. FIRE

*note: not all of OU's students are like this, I swear.

Week 6 Pic

Feature was assignment number five for Vico390 this week. This isn't the photo that I turned in, but I don't have any of the kids' names or the mom's. So I had to select a different one to turn in...boo. But this was taken at the Spring Literary Festival's kick off night in Baker during the second speaker. David Kirby is a Florida State English professor and author of TWENTY-NINE books (holy crap right?) He was hilarious. It was pretty quiet while he was reading, minus the laughter, so my camera could be heard every time I snapped a photo. The little kids keep glaring at me and telling their mom, it was so cute. And Kirby was talking about the little boy's stuffed bunny's name while I took this, so everyone was laughing. I like this photo a lot. Anyways though, he read some of his poems and I was expecting to fall asleep but he was great! All of his poems were funny, sarcastic and pretty blunt. Check him out on youtube if ya want, the one about Elvis is pretty humorous. Wow this is a ridiculously long blog, sorry!

Honey The Bunny

I want a bunny. If I lived in a house and not a dorm, I would own a bunny. But I've been coming up with some peeerrretty good schemes of how to sneak one into the dorm. Can't post them - it will get out then. But Pingle had a bunny named honey when she was little so I thought it was an appropriate title. I want a mini lop rabbit, with the floppy ears that's furry and chubby  soo cute. And it's easier than a dog to have while in school, plus I can't afford a puppy anyways. Since I'm living with Ash again next year, doubt there will be a bunny in the room. But my hopes are high.