Leftovers

ON THE MOVE: Imagine our surprise tonight when we looked out to Elliott Bay and saw the giant ping pong ball on the move. As we were coming back from yoga and dinner, it was heading away from Harbor Island, out toward the middle of the bay and then westward toward the ocean, no doubt. It was wild seeing it out in the middle of the bay!

Apparently the $27 million worth of repairs have been completed and tonight, the big ball has left its dock and appeared to be ocean bound. I guess we're lucky we saw it yesterday when we did!

IT HURTS! This afternoon I had the kids do some math. You woulda thought I was performing some Wild West type root canals on them. :/

This really hammers home the reality to me that we NEED to do math at least 3 days a week, yes even in (and perhaps ESPECIALLY in) the summertime. Distance does not make the brain grow fonder.

DAY OF INFAMY: April 20th = Hitler's birthday, CJ's birthday and the day of the worst oil spill in the history of the United States. At least ONE good thing happened on this day.

We started to read "Oil Spill! Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico" today. I was curious to see how politicized or not it would be. So far (three chapters in) so good - it seems like a fair account of the really bad Bad BAD things that went down. We'll finish it tomorrow.

PINBALL WIZARDS: We drove down to Columbia City today for yoga class, even tho their usual yoga teacher is in NY. When I returned to the studio after 45 minutes, I saw, through the glass door, that Annabelle was crying and holding her back. When I asked her what the problem was, she sniffled something about "partner poses" and CJ crushing her ear. Who knew yoga could be hazardous?

Everyone felt better when we went to Full Tilt for a little old school arcade action afterward. :) WEEKEND REWIND: So, not sure how many of you watched the U.S. take on Japan in the FIFA World Cup soccer match on Sunday morning, but we were glued to our TV here in Seattle.

Annabelle had to don her shinguards for the match. I couldn't help but wonder how many other little girls across the country got their guards on in a display of solidarity. :)The match didn't turn out in the USA's favor, which bummed us out. But that said, I found it impossible to root against Japan given all their struggles of the past several months. Hopefully the victory helps their country heal.

TOUCHDOWN: VERY early Thursday morning space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth. While we'll be happy to see her safe return, we'll be VERY sad to see the shuttle program come to an end with no 100 percent man-in-space program replacement on its heels.

The shuttle is scheduled to touch down at 2:56 a.m. Pac Coast time. I asked the kids if they wanted me to get them up to see it and they both said yes, so that's what I'll do.