The intention of this blog was to record firsts done during my 65th year. That ended April 22, 2018, on my 66th birthday, but I did start the blog a week in to my 65th year so I had a few to make up. I've done a number of things since April 22 and I will try to mention some of them in this last post.
My most recent one was this morning when I went to the National Geographic museum in Washington, DC which is across from our hotel. What a wonderful experience that turned out to be. It is a very small museum and really has only one major exhibit at a time and this one was The Tomb of Christ at the Holy Church of the Sepulchre in Jerusalem which National Geographic helped to restore in 2016 as it was beginning to crumble. The major part of the exhibit was done with 3d virtual reality so that it appeared that you were actually in the building and it was just amazing. This is probably as close as I will ever get to the tomb of Christ, but I felt like I was there, like I could reach out and touch everything there. This type of technology is going to make it possible for people everywhere to see major monuments and historical sites throughout the world when they can't actually travel there. I learned so much and it was such a feast for the eyes.
We went to a new restaurant to us in DC called Georgia Brown's. It was low country Southern food with sweet cornbread and buttermilk biscuits brought out with peach butter to begin the meal and then all kinds of choices of comfort food to choose from. I had trout and it was yummy. More food than I could eat.
We are staying at the Mayflower Hotel in DC which I had never been to. Bill had stayed there once when I wasn't with him. Our Marriott Ownership allowed us to use our points with them to get a huge suite to enjoy all week, with lots of amenities including hot breakfast. This is the way to travel!
I got to watch Cassie graduate via live-streaming, and I am so very proud of her hard work in getting her dental hygiene certification. We will be going to Hailey's high school graduation this coming Friday--first of the grandkids to graduate. We are very proud of her accomplishments.
Bill is buying Mandi and Jeff's RV and we are preparing for our first road trip in it as we head to Nachitache, LA for Memorial Day weekend.
I got to take Mom to Mandi's so we could celebrate Clay's 7th birthday before they headed off to South America. We had a great time watching Clay enjoy every minute of the day!
Tomorrow night I will complete one full year with the Central Texas Master Singers as we do our last concert of the year. It has been such a rewarding and yet challenging experience to sing with this group and I look forward to my next year with them.
I've done many other small firsts that haven't been documented on this blog this year, but I am glad that Mandi encouraged me to do this because it has made me much more aware of the things I can take advantage of that I've never done if I will just do them. It has gotten me out of a rut and hopefully will keep me out of it in the future.
