Random Posts

If I lived in Chicago I’d barely ever use my car. The public transportation system there is amazing…well amazing for the US. European transportation is on another level.

What I’m wondering is if I can go without a car here in Grand Rapids, Michigan. My friend Whitney did a pretty good job of it last year, but she got very lucky and had a stop outside her apt and she went to school downtown. I just moved to a place where the closest bus stop is a bike ride away and I’m still looking for the closest bus stop by my work.

The best part is an unlimited bus pass is just over $30.00 a month.

It would definitely change the way I live though. I need to research this more and possibly try and take the bus to work, etc a couple times to see how feasible it really is. Unfortunately I think unless I lived downtown/worked downtown, the bus may be a little bit out of reach.

I’ve been renting/buying equipment for a wedding I’m shooting this weekend. The couple I’m shooting this weekend is all about being creative and having fun photos so I rented the Nikon 10.5mm fisheye for a couples weeks. I got it from Rentglass.com.

I decided that I want to know a bit more about Lithuania and have started to read the wikipedia entry about them.

I will post the top ten interesting facts later today hopefully.

1. By the end of the fourteenth century, Lithuania was the largest country in Europe.
2. 190,000 or 91% of the Lithuanian Jews were killed, one of the highest total mortality rates of the Holocaust.
3. On February 4, 1991, Iceland became the first country to recognize Lithuanian independence.
4. Lithuania joined the United Nations on September 17, 1991.
5. On May 1, 2004, Lithuania joined the European Union.
6. Lithuania is divided into 10 counties, 60 municipalities, and 500 elderates.
7. Lithuania has 99 kilometres (61.5 mi) of sandy coastline.
8. 83.6% of the Lithuanian population are ethnic Lithuanians who speak the Lithuanian language.
9. The historically predominant religion is Roman Catholicism.
10. The 2007 estimated population was 3,575,439.
11. Juozapinė Hill is the highest point in Lithuania with an elevation of only 292,7 meters (957 feet).

Ok, so I found eleven. It was more interesting than I thought. 🙂