Ladd Photos

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve celebration at Grandma and Grandpa Ladd’s house. Unfortunately, Aunt Rochelle, Aramee, Logan, Brianna, Brian, and Damien couldn’t make it. Also, my parents, Nick, Jessie, and Courtney were in Las Vegas so they weren’t there. But, the rest of the Ladd Clan had a fun time although we missed those who couldn’t be with us.

When we got home we opened Christmas presents from my parents and siblings. We decided to open them tonight so we could leave as soon as possible tomorrow morning. The fog may hold us up but hopefully we can get down to San Diego without too much trouble.

We drove to San Diego on Christmas morning to spend the weekend with Aliciana’s family. The little ones managed to wait to open presents until we got there. Of course, as soon as they we let at their presents an eruption of wrapping paper ensued. It was fun to see the little monsters open their presents. It is always good for the soul to spend Christmas around little kids.

On the Debian Linux blog that I read there is a neat “meme” (see definition here) going around which draws a colored map of the states you have visited in the US. I decided to give it a shot and was surprised about how large a part of my beautiful country I have visited.

The one inaccuracy of this map is that it’s resolution is only state level, so parts of states are colored that I have actually never scene. For example, I have never been to eastern Washington but have visited most of western Washington. I have also only visited the bottom half of Wyoming and the western border of Missouri (Kansas City, Missouri to be specific). It would be an interesting project to create a program to color in the counties within the states that have been visited.

Here is my map of visited states: