WEEKENDS SNAPSHOTS

When a GIRL is quiet ... millions of things are running in her mind. When a GIRL is not arguing ... she is thinking deeply. When a GIRL looks at u with eyes full of questions ... she is wondering howlong you will be around. When a GIRL answers ' I'm fine ' after a few seconds ... she is not at allfine. When a GIRL stares at you she is wondering why you are lying. When a GIRL lays on your chest .. she is wishing for you to be hers forever. When a GIRL wants to see you everyday... she wants to be pampered. When a GIRL says ' I love you ' ... she means it. When a GIRL says ' I miss you ' .... no one in this world can miss you more thanthat.Life only comes around once make sure u spend it with the right person .... Find a guy .. who calls you beautiful instead of hot. who calls you back when you hang up on him. who will stay awake just to watch you sleep. wait for the guy who ... kissesyour forehead.w who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats. Who holds your hand in front of his friends. Who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you. Who turns to his friends and says, ' That's her!!

She is everybody's Dream...

WEEKENDS SNAPSHOTS

When I woke up yesterday this is what I saw on our 7th floor window.

STATUE OF LIBERTY

Every weekend I always post some of our weekly snapshots. This week I stayed home so I don't have any interesting shots. Because we are in New York City visiting my inlaws, I checked my pictures, and want to share some pics of Lady Liberty. Maybe not only I, but mostly everybody wanted to visit the Statue of Liberty in New York City. When I came here I told my husband that if possible I want to visit the statue. And these are some of the shots we took. Actually all the pictures we took at that time were shot by a Filipina that we meet there.

WEEKENDS SNAPSHOTS

This is the George Washington Bridge. You can find this bridge between the border of New Jersey and New York. Aside from that, for me it is a mark that a long drive of over 11 hours from Michigan to New York is over. Our last trip was February 12, before Valentines day. On this trip it is quite different because when we reached the bridge as you can see in the picture, there is a build up of traffic, so I got my camera and took some pictures. After many times of going back and forth from Michigan to New York, I always tried to take a picture, fortunately this time I had the chance. This is the history of the Bridge....

Groundbreaking for the new bridge began in October 1927, a project of the Port of New York Authority. Its chief engineer was Othmar Ammann, with Cass Gilbert as architect. The bridge was dedicated on October 24, 1931, and opened to traffic the following day. Initially named the "Hudson River Bridge," the bridge is named in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States. The Bridge is near the sites of Fort Washington (on the New York side) and Fort Lee (in New Jersey), which were fortified positions used by General Washington and his American forces in his unsuccessful attempt to deter the British occupation of New York City in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War. Washington evacuated Manhattan by crossing between the two forts. In 1910 the Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a stone monument to the Battle of Fort Washington. The monument is located about 100 yards (91 m) northeast of the Little Red Lighthouse, up the hill towards the eastern bridge anchorage.When it opened, the bridge had the longest main span in the world; at 1,067 m (3,500 ft), it nearly doubled the previous record of 564 m (1,850 ft), which had been held by the Ambassador Bridge. (The record has since been exceeded numerous times.) The total length of the bridge is 1,451 m (4,760 ft). As originally built, the bridge offered six lanes of traffic, but in 1946, two additional lanes were provided on what is now the upper level. A second, lower deck, which had been anticipated in Ammann's original plans, was added, opening to the public on August 29, 1962. This lower level has been waggishly nicknamed "Martha."[8] The additional deck increased the capacity of the bridge by 75 percent, making the George Washington Bridge the world's only 14-lane suspension bridge, providing eight lanes on the upper level and six on the lower deck. The original design for the towers of the bridge called for them to be encased in concrete and granite. However, due to cost considerations during the Great Depression and favorable aesthetic critiques of the bare steel towers, this was never done. The exposed steel towers, with their distinctive criss-crossed bracing, have become one of the bridge's most identifiable characteristics. Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) said of the unadorned steel structure: The George Washington Bridge over the Hudson is the most beautiful bridge in the world. Made of cables and steel beams, it gleams in the sky like a reversed arch. It is blessed. It is the only seat of grace in the disordered city. It is painted an aluminum color and, between water and sky, you see nothing but the bent cord supported by two steel towers. When your car moves up the ramp the two towers rise so high that it brings you happiness; their structure is so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh. The car reaches an unexpectedly wide apron; the second tower is very far away; innumerable vertical cables, gleaming against the sky, are suspended from the magisterial curve which swings down and then up. The rose-colored towers of New York appear, a vision whose harshness is mitigated by distance." (When the Cathedrals were White, 1947.)

WEEKLY SNAPSHOTS

It's weekends again... and here is some of my weekly snapshots. Saturday afternoon after we arrived home from dinner I noticed the size of the moon is so big, so I grabbed my camera and take a few shots of it. First it is hard to get the image because I can't see it in my camera screen, so I asked my hubby to take one for me and this is the result. It's amazing because the moon is so big. It is really important to have our personal camera wherever we go so in times like this we can capture some unusual images.

WEEKLY SNAPSHOTS

January 30,2009

Cops are all over the place to assist all broke cars on the road, many cars in the ditch. This is the scenario in I-94W last week. These are the common problems you can see on the road this winter season. Many driver's cannot control their car on the icy road.

And some drivers have no discipline at all. In spite of the bad road condition , you can see some of them are on the phone, some are texting. It's a horrible experience to see cars sliding into the ditch. So be careful driving on

the icy road..