New York City!

Lunch with Becky!

Freedom Tower.

Another cool building downtown.

Brooklyn Bridge.

View of Brooklyn in the background.

Statue of Liberty.

OMG NY pizza!  Best in the world!

Not Ray's, not to be confused with Ray's, Original Ray's, or any of the other Ray's Pizza places.

Wonderful day in NYC.

South Norwalk, Connecticut

After Washington, DC, we drove to Connecticut to spend some quality time with friends and family in the Northeast.

Marvelous Molly, after a 2 hour walk.

Yoshi!

Jessica and Liz, our lovely friends (and hosts).

Visiting Sheenam and her husband Ashish, exactly 1 month after their wedding!  Congrats!

They look so happy!

Tiamat, a hognose snake.

My dear Escher, looking stunning!

Such a cutie!!

Graduation in Washington, DC

How adorable is this kid!?

Anticipation...

All done!

My wonderful advisor, Dr. Howe!

Mom and Dr. Howe.

Aunt and Uncle/Godfather.

After party!

Success!

Seeing great friends while in town.

Back in Kendallville!

After Richmond we drive back to Kendallville for a night, then to Indy the next day to fly to DC!

Richmond, Indiana

Our next and final stop was Richmond, Indiana to visit my college friend Brian, his lovely wife Stephanie, and their cutie Emily!

Lexington, Kentucky

Dinner with dad!

First Baptist Church, est. 1786, downtown Lexington.

St. Paul's.

Triangle Park.

Transylvania University - it has educated many politicians throughout history.

Colonel Patterson's home.

Interesting house across the street from Col. Patterson's house.

Hunt-Morgan house.

Henry Clay's Law Office (the small building on the left).

Lexington History Center.

Courthouses.

View from the public library.  The large skyscraper is "Bug Blue," the tallest building in downtown Lexington.

Lunch at Saul Good at Victorian Square.  It was all good!

Knoxville, Tennessee

There's so much wrong with this sign I can't even...

Sunsphere from the 1982 World Fair.

Tennessee Theater, completed in 1928, cost over $1 million to build at that time.  In 1999 it was declared the official theater of Tennessee, and $30 million was spent to restore it.  It reopened in 2005.

View from the Sunsphere base. 

Inside!

World's Fair park.

200 West Hill Avenue, aka Blount Mansion.  This house was built in 1792 as the home of William Blout, governor of the Southwestern Territory.  The Cherokees, who had never seen glass before, called it "the House with Many Eyes."

In 1786 James White founded White Fort which later became the city of Knoxville in 1791.