24.6.10

The Wonderful World Wide Web

Ok so I will admit at times I am caught looking like a mad women as I yell at my computer and curse the internet to a horrible death....But at times the internet fascinates me and makes me happy. One such encounter occurred today. I have been trying to find a vehicle for presenting my final body of work and while others have proven fruitless and time wasting, today I discovered Jalbums. It's this amazing site that lets you put together web galleries and I will literally be able to finish my final in about 5 minutes (once I take the pictures of course). How awesome is that? I made a little practice album to try it out and see if it as awesome as I thought it would be and it is :) Here is the link and I will get the real gallery on here in a few weeks when it is finished.

http://jessicaraephoto.jalbum.net/Seattle

19.6.10

Memorial Day Weekend

So for the lovely holiday weekend I packed it up and headed home with my roommate in tow. I was really missing home and needed a weekend to see the family and my roommate had never been to Seattle. We had a lot of fun even though we spent a third of the weekend driving; still totally worth it. We got in dead tired on Friday morning and spent the day being lazy and watching Dear John. I have got to say that movie is so incredible. Seeing as my boyfriend is in it I knew it would be awesome even before I saw it (I have a Channing Tatum obsession... don't judge me). Also, it came out on the best day ever (my birthday Feb 5th), so it was destined to be good. Saturday we went to the big city for some exploring. We of course picked up my friend Patty along the way and headed in. Luckily there was almost no traffic which was so surprising because Folklife was that same weekend. We explored the market and got Starbucks on Pike. It was Tia, my roommates, first Starbucks ever and she of course had to have it at the very first Starbucks. That is the worst thing about Idaho; NO STARBUCKS! I miss my Chai tea so bad. We then got some lunch down at the water at guess where... Ivar's of course. That is another major downfall of Idaho. There is absolutely no good seafood. Holy frijoles I have missed Seattle. We headed back to the market after lunch to do a bit of shopping like flowers for my mommy and then of course no trip to Seattle is complete without seeing the Space needle. We got the car and ended up parking illegally eight blocks away. I was really worried and told Patty that if my car got towed I was going to blame her. As we started to walk up the hill to the Needle we started to run into Folklife crowds and plenty of crazies. I think Tia was a little taken back by the crazy homeless people and even though we laughed about it I could tell she was a little scared. We took some pictures and went to go look at Seattle center entertainment. We saw the cutest little old couple at Folklife so I of course took a picture. We had a lot of fun and finished the day off with a little shopping. What a good weekend! I know this is super long and probably boring so I added some pics to make it more interesting.