Cherry Blossom Festival :)

Hi again, everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates!!! But, I have been busy (and lazy...*cough*) I leave early tomorrow morning for Maine, where I will remain until Friday. Hopefully I will have some updates for you then ;) Until I get back, enjoy!!! :)

So, yesterday we went into D.C. for the annual cherry blossom festival, which occurs the week the cherry blossoms (a gift from Japan) bloom :) I wasn't expecting to be able to go yesterday, as earlier that morning we had a huge, Brunei-like thunderstorm!!! But, even though it was a bit overcast, it was still a beautiful sight to see :)

The Cherry-Blossomed, Flooded Potomac River

Walking under the trees :)

Cherry Blossoms!!!

I thought this shot looked kinda Japanesey :-P

Kiss the Water

Preeetttyyy Flowers!! :)

The Crowded Jefferson Memorial

Jump!!!

Deja vu...O.O

The Washington Monument!!!

Family Photo :)

Jefferson Memorial!!!

Roosevelt Memorial!
This one was really great, because it was something you could walk around in, and touch, and read, and feel the air...I just liked this memorial :)

Fountain :)

Roosevelt and his lucky finger :-P

Roosevelt (and me) in a nutshell

I don't think he even realized I was taking this ;)

Things are really starting to look bad here in the USA...(as captioned by my dad)

Finally! The sun came out!! :)

At one point the petals started falling on them...it was beautiful (the music and the moment) :)

The Washington Monument again :)

I just thought this light was cool ;-P

SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!!!!

So here are the pics from the snow yesterday:

In rain or snow or sleet or hail, the mailman comes without a fail!

Preetty =D

Our Back Porch

I was trying to be artistic here ;)

Yes, we're all bundled up!

One of the various streets

Killy the Lid (aka Lily the Kid, aka a masked bandit)

And then this morning, the one day I actually managed to wake up at 6, I find out that school is closed because of icy roads! Imagine...so, I went outside to comfort my dad, who had to chisel ice off the car and drive to work despite the weather. After being out in the cold, beautiful, quiet morning for 5 minutes, I was so awake I almost came online to surprise you all! But then, I got to my nice, toasty, warm room, and kinda fell asleep =.=

Our Street

Icy Trees!

My under-dressed sister out playing in the snow

Note the black spot where my dad's car was

Icicles!

My bro, playing with the icy snow

Artsy =D

Freedom!

Hooray! I finally have my braces off!!! I just got them off yesterday, and now my teeth are amazingly pretty! hahaha ;-P They feel so slimey and weird now though...I mean, I haven't felt my normal teeth in two years! It's such a relief, though :)

Before (this was when I was...11, I think?)
During (taken this summer)

After (taken yesterday!)

Also this week (weak, eh Farabz? ;-P) we performed the killing scene from Julius Caeser in English, and I seriously wish I had my camera with me! I mean, our teacher went all out with the performance thing; we had tablecloth togas, marker daggers, and a bowl of paint for blood. We even had a hand-drawn statue of Pompey! (gingerbread style! don't ask...) XD

BLACKOUT!

You all probably saw it in the papers, and it happened to about half of you probably. Blackout. The first one I ever saw in Brunei. Everything totally dark, except for the odd pockets of places that were on back-up generators or a different power station. It was strange, driving into town last evening to eat because we couldn't cook. Every street (well, most streets) had no lights on, and we were fretting as to whether downtown would be exemted. (which it was, but that's beside the point). Driving home, we could actually see the *stars*, and identify constellations that we didn't think we could see from down here. I tried taking pictures of those stars, but my camera wasn't powerful enough. The above picture, I have no idea what it's of, but it gives you an idea of how dark it was...

This is our house, and I had to take the picture with flash or nothing would show up...

This, I believe, is a picture of the road, or somewhere along the road, taken with flash.

This was the entry hall, taken without flash. Little good our backup light did...

This is the staircase, taken without flash.

We all decided to sleep in the living room, as it was the coolest room in the house, but then the electricity came back on at around 10:00 so everyone decided to go back to their rooms and leave me (already asleep) alone in the living room.

This is how we planned to sleep. ^^^


How many of you had power cuts? And what did you do to compensate?