An all-thumbs journal by a B.R. eighth-grader

Runnels School eighth-grader Theresa Hudson attended a leadership conference in Washington, D.C., last year, but her return trip this year to the nation’s capital came with an added perk: an invitation to Barack Obama’s inauguration.

We asked Hudson to keep us posted the best way any eighth-grader bopping around the Capital could: text message.

So she hit us with updates from her cell phone, thanks largely to her sweet, new unlimited texting contract, a Christmas gift from her super-cool mom, Louisiana Lottery President Rose Hudson.

We encouraged Theresa to keep things short and sweet and informal—as though she were texting a friend. Click here to read her text journal.