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It’s Coming

Tara — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:01:11 +0000

New Moon – November 20, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSFMmkMfQ5Q

Merry Christmas

Tara — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:52:47 +0000

I hope you and your families have a very Merry Christmas!

Here’s a cute screen capture from A Charlie Brown Christmas. While this isn’t my favorite Christmas movie, it definitely ranks up there.

There are No Words

Tara — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:50:38 +0000

I saw Twilight the movie last night. There are no words to properly describe my love of the movie. While you all may not have liked Twilight or even be interested in seeing it, I’m sure you have that movie that you saw and absolutely loved. This was Twilight for me. I’m going to refrain from talking much about the movie right now because I don’t want to give anything away for those who are not wanting a spoiler just yet. (I wouldn’t let the girls at work that saw the midnight showing say a word to me yesterday at work.) I give you a week. I will say that one of my favorite parts was Bella & Edward’s first day sitting next to each other in biology. His facial expressions were priceless throughout the movie but this scene was especially great in that area.

Twilight

Tara — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:32:38 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure you have heard of the Twilight book series and maybe even the new movie by the same name. If you haven’t, you should probably check out the book the next time you have some spare time to read (or even if you don’t). Twilight the movie comes out on November 21st. I’m getting really excited about this. It is looking like me & my sisters will be going opening night. Any of my readers Twilight fans as well? Are you planning on seeing the movie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3TA_P0E0E

Mamma Mia!

Tara — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0000

The last movie I saw in the movie theatre was Mamma Mia!. I saw it last weekend with Shelby & Lindsey. I knew the musical was based around the music of Abba but not much else beyond that. I must say the soundtrack was great. I’ve had Mamma Mia! and Dancing Queen in my head all week. I enjoyed the movie. Meryl Streep did a great job in her role. Pierce Brosnan was good in his leading man role. However, he really doesn’t need to sing sappy love songs. It just looked too corny. Other than that, I recommend the movie. It’s definitely a good movie to see with the girls.

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Grandfather Mountain

Tara — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:11:08 +0000

The 1st half of our week in North Carolina was spent in the area I’ve affectionately called NASCARolina because it is the area where most of the NASCAR race shops are located. For the 2nd half of the week, we headed west to the mountains. We stayed in Boone, NC. Appalachian State University is located in Boone. (For those that follow NCAA football, App St stunned football fans by beating #7 Michigan last season.)

On our first full day in Boone, we went to Grandfather Mountain. Grandfather Mountain is the tallest mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountain range. Visitors (for a fee) can drive up to the top and then walk across a swinging mile high bridge. We went up there first thing Thursday morning.

We had been in Charlotte for 3 days and was used to pretty hot weather. Boone wasn’t so warm (almost chilly). Then, we go up on Grandfather Mountain and just about freeze to death because the wind was blowing so hard. (In one of the photos Mom took of me, Shelby, & Lindsey, you can tell the wind is blowing our hair pretty good.)

I am scared of heights. I have been for as long as I can remember. I was the driver for the rental car the week we were in NC so I’m the driver up the mountain. The road gets rather narrow, steep, and contains several hairpin turns. At first, that was no big deal. The higher we got, the more my fear of heights kicked in as I started seeing how high we were. If the road had been much longer, I’m not sure I would have made it to the top. Seriously. (Because of this, my mom drove back down the mountain with me in the backseat trying to forget what was out the window.) My fear of heights prevented me from fully experiencing Grandfather Mountain. As I previously mentioned, you can walk across a mile high swinging bridge at the top of the mountain. As my photos display, I didn’t make it up there. I stayed on “ground level” with the car, tried not to get too close to the edge, froze to death, and took photos of Mom, Lindsey, & Shelby up there.

While standing on top of the mountain, I took several photos of the scenery. It was definitely a gorgeous sight. On the way down, we stopped at some of the overlooks and took photos as well. (As impressive as they were on the way up the mountain, they just weren’t as impressive on the way down because of where we had been. They were gorgeous views, though.)

The photo above is a picture on the road up the mountain. In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest runs cross-country. In one of these scenes, he is shown running on Grandfather Mountain. (Click here to see a still from that scene.) The photo above is the label they have put at that point on the mountain’s road. This photo I took shows the corner from above. (The corner in the movie is the one on the bottom right-hand side. Forrest is running about the place the tree is blocking our view of the road in my photo.)

Click here to see my photo collection from Grandfather Mountain.