My daddy and I spent four wonderful days camping in the mountains of West Virginia recently. Hours of hiking, kayaking, campfires, dinners for two, and silly laughter filled our hours together. Surrounded by the very fingerprints of God, I could only marvel…
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“…May the Lord rejoice in His works – He who looks at the earth, and it trembles, who touches the mountains, and they smoke.”
[photos marked (C) or (H) indicate those taken by Christopher and those taken by me.]
Brother and I spent an extended period of time in the car together last Wednesday… (I got a little goofy. You’ve been warned.)
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My second 5k race went to the dogs…literally. Last Saturday was the Dog Jog downtown, where two and four-legged runners turned out to pound the pavement and support the local animal shelter. For the dog-less among us (guess who) , you could “rent-a-dog” from the shelter, and I was handed the lease to a friendly pooch named Libby. She dragged me around to sniff everything possible before the race and jogged along quite happily once we got going, before tuckering out halfway through.
This was the first time my dad and I have ever run together….and he totally showed me up! (So not fair when I’m the one making all those trips to the gym.) We finished in 39:24 (3 min. under my last race – woot!) and he could’ve easily outrun me. Which he won’t let me forget, either. As it was he got second place in his age group while I was still gasping for breath!
I see a rematch in our future…
Friday morning we loaded on the metro for our big day to see the sights of downtown DC. While there simply wasn’t enough time (or leg energy) to see all the wonderful places we wanted to, we thoroughly enjoyed what we were able to experience. The sheer amount of history and amazing architecture found on every corner just blew us away and kept us stopping to snap pictures almost constantly. Being face to face with places and things I have only read and heard about my entire life brought our Nation’s history into awe-inspiring proximity. It was unbelievable.
My personal favorites were The White House (no surprise, huh), The National Archives, and the Lincoln Memorial. Without a doubt, viewing the founding documents in the rotunda of the National Archives was the most incredible moment of the day. To be inches away from THE Declaration of Independence is enough to give a person the chills! When you think about who touched that piece of paper, and where we would be if those words had not been written…WOW.
Over 12 hours later, with Murphy’s law relentlessly bearing down in the most annoying ways and our legs aching in agony with every slow step, we ended our day in refreshingly cool darkness next to the shining column of stones known as the Washington Monument. We had survived DC. And look at the memories!!
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(photography by Christopher, with a few shots by me)
