Around the Mall

Welcome back to the 2021 NPTC convention. In this blog post, we cover a little more ground on our Golf Cart Night Tour. As the sun set, our driver took us to some of the more iconic areas, as well as the new Eisenhower Memorial (since we had just been there the previous week, no one disembarked the carts!). The Jefferson Memorial was visible from the MLK Memorial across the Tidal Basin just before we boarded the carts. On the right page, the Capitol was glowing as the sun set. As we came past the Grant Memorial, the sun was even lower in the sky. This is when the illumination of the memorials begins, as you can see with the Washington Monument.

With this layout, I started on the right page. The photos with the white border are pre-printed on the page along with the Washington, DC title. Since the images were centered at the bottom and right, the paper worked best on the right side of the layout. I liked that the page had a black background because it represented the nighttime tour. To fill in the left side of the layout, I pulled a new set of Advisor-only papers and embellishments called "Everybody Smile". It combines the summer's patriotic holidays with backyard barbecues and family reunion gatherings. The layout is part of the project guide, which is available with the papers if you earn the kit from me. I added the white mats to keep the photos from disappearing into the background. The journal box is from the Eastern National Scrapbook kit. While we didn't have fireworks, it was a nod to the nighttime experience.