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While my Dad is off in Kenya building wells and hippo fences, my mom decided to come for a visit and see our new house. Kim and I went to see the Incredibles Friday night with Brigid and Gabe, and it was a great movie! I want to see it again. I love Pixar’s movies.

My mom arrived Saturday and we first bought a lawnmower, and then went to the EMP (Experience Music Project). As usual, we spent most of our time in the interactive room with all the instruments. We wandered around the exhibits for awhile and then went to dinner. We ate at Julia’s on Capitol Hill since we had a Chinook book coupon. The food was pretty good and they had live Jazz singing. Kim requested some Ella Fitzgerald songs which the wonderful singer was happy to do.

Sunday morning we all spent a few hours doing yard work. We raked the leaves that fall off of our fruit trees and cut the grass. The lawnmower that we got is a non motorized, push, reel mower, and the grass was really long so it was hard work. After yard work we went to the zoo. The zoo is always a fun time. We saw most of the African animals and ended up in the bat house at closing time. I joked with my mom that she probably saw more animals than my dad did these past few weeks.

After the zoo we came back to the house to relax in front of the fire. Mom spent another night, but I had to get up in the morning and go to work so we said quick goodbyes and she drove home in the morning.