Road Trip Day 5 - Monday: St. Louis, Missouri

So I know it took me a while to get back to this, but here's day 5 of the road trip!  We slept in Rolla, MO at the end of Day 4 and got up early to check out the mini Stonehenge in the town.  It wasn't what I expected, but it was cool. Fred was more thrilled about it than I hehe.  I guess I expected it to look just LIKE the bigger Stonehenge, you know, with all the worn down rocks and stuff.  But it's a bunch of straight cut rocks, what a let down! Jk :)

After that, we headed stopped along Rt. 66 to check out the the world's largest rocking chair.  Stupid van was in the way, but we were able to take pictures some a different angle haha.  But the van does also give you a perspective on how big this thing is.  Also, there was a random canon there:

Next, we stopped at St. Louis, MO to check out the Gateway Arch.  It was pretty cool. You have to ride into a little pod thing to get to the top.  Here's some shots:

Here's the view from inside the top:

And here's some more shots.. St. Louis is pretty. Top right is the window you look out of when you're at the top of the arch.  Bottom left is an example of the pod you have to squeeze into to go up. By the end of the day, we were in Dayton, OH.

The end! Day 6 coming soon!! (But don't expect too much, being that it was our last day of the trip and I was antsy to get home, there's not much we did haha).

My First Music video - Road Trip 2008

I'm going to see if this works or not, but I tried to upload it to YouTube earlier and they were like - your video has been muted due to third-party content. Whoops. HAHAHA. The video is done to the song "Dice" by Finley Quaye. I don't know why, but I really like the feel of this song for a road trip. If I had better footage, I could've done more with the video but it's okay.

At any rate, here's my first music video in my first attempt at using Premiere Pro CS3. Please don't expect too much - there is a lot left to be desired, including more steady video footage, but I think for my first time, it's not too bad lol.

When we were filming our road trip, I believe our intention was just for documentation, not to do anything spectacular with the footage. So if you get dizzy from the bumpiness of the video, I'm sorry - hahaha. I had to add a bunch of pictures to fill in parts where I didn't have any video to put lol. But hopefully when I get my hands on my wedding's raw footage one day (that's a whole other issue HAHAHA), I will be able to play around with it and do something cool. And I also want to make a longer video of our road trip, with us talking about stuff.. so we'll see.

I learned a lot from this experience and can't wait to do some more. However, I became a hermit for a few days and I think I need to take some time to become a normal functioning member of the human race again lol. I am sure I will find a nice balance between potential video editing maven and social butterfly, just give me some time hahaha.

Oh yeah, I want to share with you my daffodil photos. Fred got me daffodils to help the Breast Cancer Association. At first they weren't bloomed but now they are. Unfortunately, I don't have a vase HAHAHAH. Here are some photos:



I also was at the park the other day and saw a mom pushing her child on the swing set. The child was ecstatic and both mother and child were laughing so much. I regret not taking more than one picture but we were on the move so oh well... Better luck next time. I feel like the kid could either look very happy or very mad b/c you can't see his mouth hahaha.



More stuff to come. Enjoy!