1. I was a mystery reader for my daughter's 2nd grade class on Friday. I had the day off school, so I thought I'd like to get involved in my kid's lives. So, I go to their school, go to her classroom while the class is out at lunch and sit in a designated chair and cover up with a blanket. When the kids come back from lunch, they sit in front of me and start asking questions that can be answered with a nod yes or a head shake no. Memorable ones are, "Are you black?", "Are you Mrs Brown's husband [the teacher]?"... it was funny. So, they finally found out I was Becca's daddy, and I read two of Becca's favorite books to the class. After reading, the kids were allowed to ask me questions. One of my favorite questions asked, and one which made Tricia laugh very hard was, "Do you have touch of gray?" I answered that I do have some gray hair. The child then clarified, "Do you USE touch of gray?" I said, "Nope, this is all natural." I thought it was an amusing question.
2. Tricia made St Patty's day dinner for us. We had green Hawaiian Punch, pistachio pudding, fish sticks, french fries and cole slaw. The rationale for the fish sticks and french fries was that they are, "pub food [fish and chips] and I'm sure they eat it in Ireland." Tricia was going for fast and easy. Regardless, after dinner, we watched the clip from VeggieTales about St Patrick. That makes us laugh.
3. Isak was tested to move from a yellow belt to a yellow/green belt today. He passed, but it was funny watching him. He and his one-step partner argued the whole time, with her pouting at the end of the demostration. I asked him afterwards why they had been fighting and he said, "She was doing the white belt one-steps and I kept telling her that she was wrong." He is classic. Before they started, the red, red/black and black belts were being tested. I saw someone jump about 5ft off the ground (over two of the red belts) in a flying jump kick and break "boards". It was awesome. Here is video footage of Isak doing his white belt form. The kids were asked to do it at their own pace... (Isak is in the front row, 4th from the right and 5th from the left)
4. Tricia and I celebrated out 12th wedding anniversary on 05 Mar 2011. I'll ask Tricia to post about it because she will do a better job.
5. Tricia and I had a hot date with some friends (Hi Dave and Nicole!!!) and we were talking about something that made me want to post here about it. And now they'll have access to the picture I was telling them about. As you might have read in my last post, I get to travel with my dad to places where he is lecturing. I've been to
South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Greece and Turkey. One one of the trips, Tricia was able to go as well, and we went to South Africa (SA). While there, we had the opportunity to go to a wildlife preserve and have an awesome experience. First of all, there were a lot of us (Mom and Dad, Kevin and Heidi, Tricia and I) and we had to drive to this place. Dad got two cars and he drove one and I the other. One interesting tidbit is that they drive on the wrong side of the road in SA. What was fiunny about it is that, everytime Dad wanted to turn, he would activate the windshield wipers. Mom, Tricia and I laughed every time. Regardless, we made it to the preserve, found our hotel (which was in the preserve) and the next day, we drove around. We saw some really fun stuff on our individual drive... the most interesting was this:
This troop of rhinos decided to walk between our two cars. We felt very exposed. Tricia, very worriedly, asked me to roll up my window. I told her that a rolled up window wouldn't help if the rhino decided to charge us. This picture was taken by my brother from one car. You can see me leaning out the window taking a picture from the other car. BTW - check out that rhino's horn... we were worried it would spear us... not ram into us. :)
That is all. Thanks for reading my much less interesting than Tricia's posts.
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