Old Pictures from My Old Phone

 The Tidal Basin in the fall time.

 A bridge near Lara and Glen's house.

 I liked this sign. :)

 The Washington D.C. temple.

 A pretty and historical house in downtown Vienna.

 Me at the Masonic Memorial in Alexandria.

Looking at the Navy Memorial from the National Archives.

 A crane (at least that's what I think it is) in a pond near my house.

The fall time!

50/50 Challenge Results 2012

At the beginning of 2012, my work had a challenge, read 50 new books and watch 50 new movies during the year.  You can read more about the challenge in this blogpost I wrote at the beginning of last year.  Now for the results of the challenge... I read 41 books and watched 43 movies.

Sometimes I would just read books and watch movies just so that I could count them toward my number. As a result of this, I read a few books and watched a few movies that I did not particularly like, but I read or watched them anyways.  I might tell you a few of the ones I didn't like, but mainly I would like to tell you the ones that I liked the most.

The books I really really liked:
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
The How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Any historical fiction books by Ann Rinaldi

The movies I really liked:
Children of Heaven
Life of Pi
Les Miserables
Whisper of the Heart

Movies I did NOT like:
Contagion
The Woman in Black
The Backup Plan

Basically with the rest of the movies or books, they were good.  I liked them.  I may have even liked them a lot but the ones I wrote above are the ones I liked the most.  The ones I did NOT like were pretty bad (at least in my opinion).

If you would like to see the full list of movies and books that I watched and read, you can click the tab at the top of my blog (under my blog title) that says 50-50 CHALLENGE to see them.