Snapshots & Random Thoughts: Memory Monday

See the Northern Lights in Alaska
Go to New York City & see a Broadway play or two (ACCOMPLISHED December 11, 2010 and November 2011)
Attend the Hill Cumorah Pageant (ACCOMPLISHED July 2011)
See Niagara Falls (ACCOMPLISHED July 2011)
Drive from coast to coast (ACCOMPLISHED May 2010 - Sacramento to Washington DC)
Visit every state in the U.S.
Learn to paint a landscape
Visit Amish country (ACCOMPLISHED February 19, 2011 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Take a photography class
Travel by train in a sleeper car
Serve a mission
Hike a portion of the Appalachian Trail
Hike the Grand Canyon
Climb Half-Dome in Yosemite
Visit the Holy Land
Make and enter a quilt in the county fair
Complete a Marathon (26.2 miles) (ACCOMPLISHED November 12, 2011 - Richmond, Virginia)
Learn to play "How Great Thou Art" on the piano
Ride in a hot-air balloon (ACCOMPLISHED 9/5/08 - NAPA, CA)
Learn to knit (ACCOMPLISHED June 2008)
Complete a Half Marathon (13.1 miles) (ACCOMPLISHED 4/21/07 SLC & 9/3/07 Disneyland)
Learn to Swim (ACCOMPLISHED 9/10/2005)

Monday, January 23, 2012

Memory Monday - Card Carrying

Ever since I can remember, I have loved libraries and books. It all started in a small basement library in Garland, Utah. My mom would take me and my sister there often to check out stacks of books. I remember how I loved the quiet, almost reverent, feeling and the smell of old, musty books. Imagine my excitement when I first entered the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Then, imagine my disappointment to find out that I was only allowed to look down on the reading room from a glass window above. I have been wanting to get my reader card ever since I first walked into this building.

Picture me sitting in this reading room, doing research.

It's going to happen now. I am, finally, along with my friend Lynne, a card-carrying Library of Congress reader! We did notice that our cards are only valid for 2 years. Guess we'll have to make the trek back to DC next year to renew!