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Martin Luther King stood there with his rally and spoke that famous speech. I really liked the Lincoln Memorial - and it was also surreal looking at the statue that I've seen in so many pictures and movies.
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Too bad they are all so far apart from each other! I sure did do a lot of walking! I actually had shin-splints for a few days afterwards.Īnyway, I saw the Washington Monument, then walked over the Lincoln Memorial - stopping at the Vietnam and WWII memorials on the way. I hoped to see the national sites, and maybe some of the Smithsonian museums. I parked my car and took the Metro subway downtown. I also walked over to see the Kennedy's headstones. The rows of white headstones were humbling - as was seeing the tomb of the unknown soldier. The reception was in Arlington, Virginia - so before the reception I went to the Arlington National Cemetery. Her wedding was so nice and I even got to see some old friends from my mission - that was really neat. I was excited that I could actually go! Her wedding was on Friday and I decided to make a weekend of the trip and do some sight-seeing in D.C. Temple, of a friend from my mission, Nica Conde. In June I was invited to a wedding, at the D.C. Oh well, whatever is left over won't be wasted. That's great - but I had hoped we would have a slew of new books that were new off the market - not donated copies of The Babysitter's Club. Since the city of Chesapeake is trying to save money, and be "green", they chose to give a book as the final prize. That was a bit frustrating to me, to re-gift books that were donated to us - but they are in good condition and hopefully the kids will never know! This is a change from last year, they used to give out little prizes from the Oriental Trading company and the kids loved those. Well, some are newly bought and the rest are nice looking donation books. If the kids read 10 hours, marking off their game-board, then they get a prize! The half-way prize is a Smencil - a gourmet smelling pencil. I'm keeping busy with work, and this summer has been going good, for the most part! We've been busy with the Summer Reading Program and getting kids and teens to sign up. Since we are short-staffed we've been having them help with re-shelving (a never-ending job) and other special projects as necessary. We've also had teen volunteers helping out this summer. Once the tickets are gone, that's it! It went a lot better the next week and the weeks following - much more in control!
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We are only setting up 75 chairs, popping 75 bags of popcorn and giving out 75 bags of popcorn.
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Well, to prevent this happening again the next time we figured out a ticket system - just like in the movie theaters. Also, the volunteers had only popped 50 bags of popcorn and people were pestering the volunteers to make more popcorn.
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The first week we have more than one hundred people show up and our meeting room has a fire code restriction of 100 people.
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Donna found the newest kid's movies that just came to DVD (Hotel for Dogs, Paul Blart Mall Cop, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Race to Witch Mountain, High School Musical 3 and Space Buddies - if you wanted to know) and we show them each week - with a free bag of popcorn. We've had a weekly movie showing each Thursday. Next week Donna and Debbie are doing a program to commemorate the 40 years since NASA first landed on the moon. What's she did for one of her programs was talk about the pets that the President's have had - they they painted a simple picture of the White House and the green lawn in front - then the kids could paint what animals they would have as pets if they were President. One of the books was "Our White House: looking in, looking out" and it's a collection of facts and short stories about the White House. In the grant she wrote up ways she would use these books for special library programs, if she won. One of my co-workers, Debbie, won a grant for our library and we received some new books. I will be heading up another costume-character program next month. I haven't done any programs myself, but I've been on hand to help out. The children's department has also been busy with special storytime programs. They are half Japanese and adorable! Their mom says that whenever they drive by the library they ask if Ms Elizabeth is there. It's so fun hearing their little voices say my name and are excited to see me! My personal favorites are the twins, Kate and Brennan. We have some regulars and they are starting to recognize me. I've been doing the 2-3 yr old storytime each day and it's been fun. Besides the summer reading program, my department has been busy with 3 days of storytime.