Project 365 – the third time!

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I’m shocked: I was poking around my photo archives to link to my previous Project 365, and I completely forgot that I’ve already done it twice before! I apparently took on the challenge first in 2010 and then again in 2013. I’m going to have to take a look back at both of those, but — for now — I’ll just get to the business of reviewing my most recent undertaking: 2019.

Obviously, I have a lot of photos to share for this project, so I’m won’t share them all. I’m also going to break this up into four posts (each a quarter of the year), because I’m also likely to sneak in a few non-Project 365 images as support.

January

In January of 2019, Jason and I celebrated a belated Christmas with extended family near Des Moines, Iowa. While we were there, we also got a chance to help celebrate Jaxon’s birthday (Harry Potter style) and wandered around the East Village of Des Moines a little bit.

  • Jaxon and his Harry Potter birthday cake
  • Me wearing Harry Potter-style glasses, standing in front of a backdrop of Hogwarts at night
  • Scenic Route Bakery in Des Moines, Iowa
  • A random mural in the East Village of Des Moines, Iowa
  • Dave, Renee, Jason and me in front of an East Village mural in Des Moines, Iowa
Line up of Christmas gift-filled cookie jars
We celebrate Christmas by exchanging anonymously gift-filled cookie jars. I’m always amazed by how much excellence can be stuffed inside of these strange containers!

We also traveled to Taiwan in January! That was a big deal; I thought I’d never get there and I’m so happy it finally happened. We flew from Minneapolis to Vancouver (for a couple days) to Taipei (and traveled all around Taiwan with my brother, Ryan, sister-in-law, Jane, and nephew, Sagan) to San Francisco (for a couple more days) and then back home again. It was all so awesome (even though it was also exhausting — that time change was crazy!)

Jason and me at the Gastown steam clock.
We didn’t have a lot of time to tour through Vancouver, but we made the Gastown steam clock one our sight-seeing priorities.
  • Ryan, Sagan and Jane on our first night in Taiwan
  • Jason and me at the southernmost point of Taiwan
  • Jane and Sagan, exploring Taiwan with us
  • A photo from the airplane over China
I have so many, many more photos from this adventure. I’m definitely planning to write more posts about it all later this year!

February

Our time in San Francisco crossed into the first couple days of February, and on the 1st I set us up with a cruise out to Alcatraz — at dusk! (So it would be even spookier, of course.) I had done the evening tour before but Jason had never been there before. It was nice to have someone to “ghost hunt” with this time around.

  • Jason on the ferry to Alcatraz
  • Walking through a cell block at Alcatraz
  • Looking from Alcatraz island back at the San Francisco bay
  • Jason standing in front of a cell, listening to the audio tour

For Valentine’s Day, Jason surprised me with tickets to Potted Potter. It was hilarious!

  • The marquee of the Pantages theatre in downtown Minneapolis, MN
  • Me, Jason and Joseph Maudsley from Potted Potter

March

March was fairly quiet. Jason and I had our usual annual date to see Dan Navarro when he came into town to perform and later that month I went to local conference to level up my web developer skillz, MidwestPHP.

Dan Navarro at the Aster Cafe in Minneapolis, March 2019
  • PHP elephants, aka ElePHPant
  • Photo from presenter at MidwestPHP 2019
  • Photo from presenter at MidwestPHP 2019
  • Photo from MidwestPHP 2019

Other 2019 Project 365 links: Album on Flickr • April-June Recap • July-September Recap • October-December Recap

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