show and tell

Show and tell was quite the event back in kindergarten.  

Everyone always brought their Beanie Babies and stood up in front of the class and talked about them.  At the end of the year, I still only had 3 Beanie Babies:  Derby the horse, that I got for my birthday from a friend;  Patti the platypus, that I got from a McDonald's happy meal; and Fleece the lamb.  Pretty sure Mama bought me that one.  Every week I took the same 1 (or 2 or 3 depending on how late in the year it was) to show and tell.  

Now that I think about it, it's pretty stupid to take the same thing to show and tell every week.  That's be like me posting the same 3 pictures on this blog over and over again.  But back in kindergarten, that seemed normal.  I remember I was proud of my same 3 Beanie Babies every single week.  Naturally, my family obtained quite a collection of Beanie Babies AFTER I grew out of them.  

Okay, so the whole point is....  today is show and tell from the last few weeks via my iPhone.

This is the cute red barn off I-65.  I've always thought it was so precious and idyllic, and I finally snapped a picture of it.

This is Lake Guntersville.  Charles and I went there to sail with Charles's brother-in-law over spring break, but we couldn't get the boat in the water.  It's funny now, and it was funny then too!  We still had a great time enjoying the car ride and the beautiful weather.

This is downtown Birmingham.  Sorry, it's a pretty bad picture, too.  I spent a lot of time there this Spring Break.  I've probably spent more time downtown since I moved to Auburn, than I did in all 18-years I lived in Birmingham full-time (primarily due to taking summer classes at UAB).  I guess it's just been kind of cool to see somewhere so different from home so close to home.

This is my I Voted sticker.  Cause the primaries were over spring break, and I got to vote at home.  But I was a bad, uninformed citizen and only voted for like 3 positions cause I didn't do my homework on who to vote for.

This is Ross Hall.  The Chemical Engineering building.  It's really pretty on the outside but inside many students are being tortured.  That's a slight exaggeration.  Chemical engineering is pretty fun until you realize that only about 3 out of 80 students in your class will get an A.  Then it's just depressing.  But seriously, I spend a LOT of time in this building.