Yay! Hooks won! Just kidding. We lost =( But we were awesome anyway! I haven't been to a Hooks game in soooo long! It made me all happy inside ;) Yesterday was just a pretty a.m.a.z.i.n.g. day. It started out with a brisky ocean walk, and ended with fireworks! Oh, and in between was amazing too =) Joy = Erika and Hanna! And Christiana, but I didn't get to see her yesterday =( And the tradition lives! We had our community bowel. Yay =) I kinda missed a little drama... But Mrs. Hallock forgave me, so all is well... with my soul... =) Mr. Bickham continued his tradition of being awesome and gave a great lesson in which my Holy Spirit question was answered =) Then this epic hat appeared on Mr. Bickham's dash board... And I HAD to wear it. It was blinding ;) Then the game! We were nice last night and decided to let the other team win. My idea. But the fireworks were heart stopping. Literally. No joke. I almost DIED!!!!! But then I was ok. And I was oreo filling...Thank you Jake and Carolyn... Then there was this GIANT metal man!!!! With a bat! I thought he might be dangerous, but he wasn't disturbing anybody so I let it drop. Oh goodness! I want a part! Hopefully in Whatever the Cost, but really, right now I just want to memorize lines. Yay for Saturday! I got about 3 million things done today, and I ate a blackberry. It was good.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

..::Revelation 4:10-11::..

Has anyone else noticed that Casting Crowns brings up so many questions...

• Just how close can I get to my surrender, without losing all control?
• Just how far is the East from the West?
• If we are the Body,

~ Why aren't His arms reaching?

~ Why aren't His hands healing?

~ Why aren't His words teaching?

~ Why aren't His feet going?

~ Why is His love not showing them there is a way?

• Whom shall I fear? Whom shall I fear?
• America, what will we miss while we are sleeping?
• Will we trade our dreams for His... or are we caught in the middle?
• What if His people prayed?
• Are we happy plastic people?
• What if the life that we pursue came from a hunger for the truth?
• But would it set me free if I dared to let you see the truth behind the person that you imagine me to be?
• Is there hope for every man?
• Have we become so blind that we can't see?
• Does anybody hear her??
• If he loses his soul, what has he gained in the end?
• But how then will he know what he has never heard?
• Is there anyone that fails? Is there anyone that falls?

• Who Am I?

..::Washington D.C.::..

Oops... got a little behind there didn't I? =) But hark! That was such an amazing trip! Where do I start? I guess I should list everywhere we went... so I don't forget... =)

..::Monday-

• National Zoo... Mom wanted to see a Panda =)
• Open City for Dinner

::..Tuesday-

• Capital (to take pictures with Cornyn, take a tour, observed the senate in action)
• National Archives
• Old Post Office... with an insanely high tower... and I ran up the stairs and lived to tell the tale
• Open City for dinner

..::Wednesday-

• Pentagon... Go Mack!!!
• Bureau of engraving (Insane amount of money)
• National Portrait Gallery... Way a.m.a.z.i.n.g!
• Ford Theater and Peterson House
• WALK... to the White House =)
• Open City for dinner

..::Thursday

• Pictures with Kay Bailey Hutchinson at Capital (Met aide named Sarah Hunt from Texas and a baptist and amazing =) I won't her job someday =)
• House in action (fell asleep and proud of it... land of poppy's =)
• Supreme Court
• Holocaust Museum
• Jefferson Memorial
• ... Open City...

..::Friday- ~Best Day EVER!!!!!~

• Arlington Cemetary... IN THE SNOW!!!!!

• Library of Congress... Most a.m.a.z.i.n.g. place EVER!

• Old Post Office

• Smithsonian of American History

• Then... walking from the Smithsonian to the Washington Monument, from there to the WWII Memorial, and from there to the Lincoln... and from there to Korean Memorial =)

• Open City for dinner... The last time =( Such good memories of that place... such friendly people =)

That's the boring schedule =) Gotta go now, but more later =)

..::Washington D.C. - Day 2&3::..

..::Day 2&3, Saturday&Sunday, March 6&8::.. What an awesome couple of days! Cousins truly share souls! We left our cousins in San Antonio for the airport at 7 a.m. Lovely time of morning really... And we arrived at the airport with no perilous delays. And we sat for a while and then remembered my promise to dear Caleb about taking a picture of something every day that reminded us of him... a whole "you're there in spirit" thing. I will share my findings on a blog post if I return home alive. The plane rides were fine... I spilled orange juice on myself both times... and we finally landed in Baltimore! Where six separate strangers nonchalantly told me how nice it was the temperature finally rose... Last week it was freezing and snowing, they said. I almost burst into tears! It was so aggravating! But I found solace from laughing at this guy from Australia I met on our plane as he had dropped his suitcase and his sand spilled... The sand he had in his suitcase you see... Yeah, I didn't get it either. But we did make it to cousins house where it felt like we saw each other every day, except for we talked a lot faster so that we would have time in the next 42 hours to say everything that needed to be said. Aunt Sandi made us some homemade food and we played about 4 million games until well past midnight. The next day we went to their Church and went for walks and took many multitudes of pictures, and then for the grand finale:: at midnight we watched this a.m.a.z.i.n.g. Celtic Women at an Irish Castle as they sang Irish folk songs and other a.m.a.z.i.n.g. songs! We stayed up a little late doing that... but we laughed and we cried and my soul will never forget that night.

..::Washington D.C. - Day 1::..

..::Day 1, Friday, March 6::.. I have just left many of you, and my quest has begun! I am in the car on my way to San Antonio and I am wearing my epic coat (which I have named Epic... Sorry Jake =) and am beyond excited excited about seeing my beyond a.m.a.z.i.n.g. cousins! I have several goals for this trip, but we will see what happens won't we?

• SNOW! Yeah... that would be blinding ;)
• Take a.m.a.z.i.n.g. pictures and use up entire memory card
• Dance on a sacred spot... in a sacred way, of course
• Stay up one night fully
• See Obama... I don't need to touch him...
• Share Christ's love through my speech, my life, my love, my faith, and my purity
• Lay under the stars at night to see if I can find mine <3

Apparently I am distracting other drivers (Please don't ask why =) So Good Night!