The Twins

Numerous Facebook posts over the past week or so have led me to believe that we're right around the first day of school. A good number of my social media friends have grade school aged children. So I've seen lots of first day photos of colorful backpacks and ear to ear grins, sans a few teeth. Now I don't have any children of my own to partake in the annual ritual but I do have nieces and a nephew. Two of my nieces, aka The Twins, have recently graduated from high school and just last week started classes at San Jacinto College. I don't have those first day of school pictures because that would make me the embarrassing uncle. But I did take some pictures of them after their high school graduation. Shout out to Keita and Keisha and good luck this semester! Well all of your semesters actually...but one step at a time. 

The Identical Duo

I don't know about you but when I was 16, I wasn't hopping on planes and visiting family members 2,000 miles away...by myself. My twin nieces did just that when they came to visit me in Washington DC during their spring break.

In true tourist fashion, one of their first orders of business was to make a purchase at the sweatshirt/hot dog/ice cream/battery/disposable camera shop so often seen near the heavily traveled areas of the District. They purchased identical purple hoodies cheaply stitched with "Washington DC" and pretty much wore them the rest of the trip.

While visiting most of the major monuments and museums, we all made our first trip to the National Archives. I've walked past that building many times since I've lived here and never thought twice about it. But the twins were right in the middle of discussing those historical documents in school...which we all thought was pretty cool.

Mostly I just took pictures as they walked around the city.