More Fremont

Hookers Hookers EVERYWHERE!

I went down to Fremont Street last night with some girlfriends and took some new photos.  I have always enjoyed Fremont and have never thought it was "sketchy," but last night definately changed my mind.  We spent two hours watching hookers "walk the street" for customers.  Don't worry, we watched from a balcony in a bar above Freemont Street.  I've never seen anything like it in my life and would be happy if I never saw it again.  Anyway, here are some of the pictures I took last night.  Heads up, I didn't take any pictures of the hookers.  Trust me, they did not resemble Julia Roberts in the slightest.

This is my beautiful friend Laura.  She's an amazing friend and a fantastic cook!

Circle, Circle, DOT DOT DOT

Paris Hotel and Casino

Tuff N Uff MMA - Jenny Yum vs Lindsay Jones - Female Spinning Back Fist ...

I met Jenny Yum the first day of 9th grade in our creative writing class.  We quickly became friends by talking through class and passing notes throughout the day.  It's been almost 10 years since we graduated high school and Jenny has moved onto things more exciting than writing poetry and short stories.  I saw her last weekend for the first time since we graduated in 2001. She looks exactly the same however, it was a little scary for me to see her because I had NEVER watched a fight before.  She's taken up mixed martial arts and was in town for a tournament.  I sat ring side with her friends and family and couldn't even believe what I was watching.  Jenny's fight was over so quickly I didn't even know what had happened until the lady sitting beside me said, "That's it.  Jenny won."  I always knew she was one tough cookie but it's still kinda shocking to see your poetry buddy from 9th grade knock some girl flat on her behind.

Congrats to Jenny Yum!  And that's Yum like Yummy....not the way the announcer keeps saying it on the video.  She'll be back for the title fight at the end of September and I'm so excited to go cheer her on.

Floating Food

There's a really cool looking restaurant in the new City Center Mall.  It's a wooden structure that looks like it's free standing in the middle of the shopping mall.  I don't really know how else to explain it so check out the pictures.

Help a Tarheel out!

My close friend Victoria is currently in the running to win a Pepsi Refresh Grant to use in her classroom.  Please help her out by texting 101134 to PEPSI (73774).
~You can also vote online at http://www.refresheverything.com/nintendoclassroomproject

You can vote by each method once a day.  I've posted an overview of what the grant money would be used for below. And just for fun, I've posted an old picture of me and Victoria..  Please don't judge us.  We like to dress up in 80s clothes and dance around to The Flashdance soundtrack.  Oh, and we also have perfected the Blue Steel look.  If you don't know what that means then you need to meet us at the abandoned Member's Only Jacket warehouse for a walk off.  If you are still not getting it, you need to watch the movie Zoolander.


Project Overview:
     As a technology charter school, we pay special attention to using all sorts of technology in our everyday classroom activities.  I piloted this program last school year but hit some road blocks since not all of my students at my Title 1 school have Nintendo DSi's.  I have used the pictochat program to practice skills such as: singular/plural nouns, contractions, and possessive nouns.  I'd like to ask for a class set of Nintendo DSi machines along with several games to aide their learning in not only Language Arts but in Mathematics.  This is a cutting edge way to teach in this fast paced world and parents have been happy with the results.  Parents have even been quoting studies where children with ADHD do well with electronic methods of learning/stimulation and have given me praise for using this technology in my classroom.  So far, I've seen it do great things, and I'd like to see how much farther my students can go with this excellent form of technology.

City Center Mall

There's a new upscale mall in City Center on the strip.  Just what Las Vegas needs right?  Another over priced mall that only carries high end merchandise that the majority of the world cannot afford.  Only in Vegas!  The mall does have some cool windows, fountains, stores, and restaurants.  All of these pictures were taken in that mall.  I guess I could look up the name of the mall but I'm feeling pretty lazy and quite frankly I don't know anyone that's going to go there to actually buy anything.

Believe it or not, these columns are actually made of ice.  The colors on them change from the lights down below.

This was in the Chanel store window.  Nothing exciting but I thought the colors might look cool.

VINO!

VINO!  I've decided that the delicious wine is what I miss the most about the Azores.  I have been impressed with the selection of Portuguese wine that Total Wine has to offer but of course there's a 100% price mark-up.  We have several dozen bottles of wine that Nick made last fall that are maturing in boxes in the closet.  I'm excited to tap into those one day soon.  A good glass of red wine makes my day and even has health benefits.  Double bonus!

This picture was taken at the new Aria Hotel down on the strip.  This particular restaurant features over 100 different bottles of wine as you can see from this picture of just a small portion of their wine cellar.  All of the bottles were far beyond my price range but they didn't charge me to take pictures.  Well, I did get chased off but whatever, I still got my shot.

Pink is my favorite crayon

I love this color combination.  The pink on black really pops.  It's actually a light fixture I found at Planet Hollywood when I was stalking Labron James.  Ok, so I wasn't "stalking" him.  I actually ran into him by accident.  He's one big boy.

I've been taking so many pictures that I don't have enough things to type about to go with them.  That's why I changed the title of my blog to a "photography blog."  It's basically turned into a photo blog of The Strip.  Every time I go down there something new catches my eye.  I'm learning more everyday and I hope you all are enjoying looking at the pictures as much as I have been enjoying taking them.

Neon Moon

Cracked Glass

That's the Paris Hotel and Casino in the distance.  I haven't decided what I think of this photo I took but I thought that I would share.