We made our annual summer pilgrimage to Broadway in the Desert last weekend and had a great time! The Tuacahn shows in St. George this year are “Cats” and the regional premiere of “Tarzan, the Musical”. This was the first time we had seen “Cats” and the dancing was really amazing. Some of the leads were fantastic. “Tarzan” was awesome. They had really stunning aerial work going on in almost every scene, the leads were great and it was really fun. Great quick vacation.
I finished the What’s in a Name? 3 Challenge with a very different list than I anticipated at the beginning of the year. Only one book remained the same, but changing it up during the year is fun, too!
Between January 1 and December 31, 2010, read one book in each
of the following categories:
(Food) in the title: The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
(Body of water) The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #2 by Rick Riordan
(Title, like queen, president) The Queen of Attolia (The Queen’s Thief #2) by Megan Whalen Turner
(Plant) Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
(Place name, like city, country) Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle
(Music term) The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
I finished this reading challenge 3 months early! The goal of the challenge is to read the number of books first published in a given year that corresponds to the last digit of each year in the 2000s — 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, 8 books from 2008, etc. The total number of books required, therefore, is 55. The challenge lasts from 9/9/09 through 10/10/10.
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
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2003
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2001
Brian sent us some photos from his first area in the California Carlsbad Mission.
click on a photo to see them in a gallery with descriptions
Brian was in the MTC from January 6 until March 9, 2010.
click on a photo to see them all in a gallery with descriptions