June 26, 2011

the Challenge, Days 9-14...

whoa! i bet you thought i had given up...well, i thought about it many times, because it's was very difficult to keep up with this every day while away from the house for more than 2 weeks! trust me, my poor memory card is maxed out. when we finally got home i had to start sifting through the hundreds of pictures to find my "challenge" shots. because i like to provide a little story behind each shot, i'm going to break up the posts (since there are 18 to catch up on). let's get started...
this one is obvious...someone you love, my boys of course. and since were going to be in the car for hours on end, why not make a pit stop at our Alma Mater. we're raising them right...

okay, at first glance this may seem strange (especially since i can't remember the last time i stepped foot in a church) but since we were in New Orleans i made a quick stop by the Saint Louis Cathedral. this view is what i remember as a kid. i spent many a sunday morning with my mom and sister in wooden pews just like this one. i remember my sister singing at the top of her lungs (even though she didn't even know the words), i remember thinking the whole "stand up-sit down-stand up-kneel down" part of a catholic service to be a little like going to a football game and cheering for your team, and i remember waiting patiently to get a little bite of wafer and a sip of wine (that always happened right on time at 9:45). so, that's my childhood memory...

you would think in a house full of boys that finding something blue would be extremely easy, but i didn't want easy, and we weren't really at home....so, why not challenge myself and find something blue that didn't belong to me? being on vacation kind of helped in this situation. i'm pretty sure this was from the next leg of our vacation, Hollywood Studios in Orlando. if you've never been, it's pretty much like a giant movie set. you can walk around (what seems like miles and miles) the different areas of the park and it appears that you're in a different city. so, this cute little blue door, which looks like it's down a Chicago street, is actually a false set in an amusement park. pretty cool...

ahhh...pretty much perfect. this picture was not doctored in any way. those colors are real, and i would've missed it if it weren't for NoNo saying during dinner, "why is it onge and pwerple outside?"

okay, this challenge was definitely a challenge. 13 things? i was in a park with thousands of people and thousands of things, so, finding only 13 was hard work. every time that i thought i had 13 things positioned just right, some stranger would come by and move one or put an extra one in the shot...arrgh! so, by the end of the day we finally made it to the Tower of Terror. guess what? it has 13 floors of sheer terror and free-falling excitement (which P-donculous rode 3 times in a row)...

this one seemed fairly easy. everyone in my family (except myself) has beautiful blue eyes, but when asked to smile for the camera, this is what i get...


1 comment:

Lala said...

I'm loving your picture challenge! Keep them coming!