My parents got into town late last night and this morning they met Kim’s parents. We had a nice breakfast and then went to the zoo. Kim and my zoo membership expires at the end of this month, so it’s our last free visit. There was a member’s only showing of the new interactive bird exhibit. It’s mostly parakeets, but it’s fun because they give you a stick with feed on it that the birds fly to and eat off of. We saw the penguins feeding on live fish which was really cool, my highlight. After a few more exhibits Kim and I had to go to work so we left our parents together to fend for themselves for the rest of the day. We left them hoping they wouldn’t get lost on the buses, but it sounds like they did great finding their way around.
Dennis and I planned to upgrade our active directory to Windows 2003, but things didn’t go well, as with most Microsoft upgrades. We didn’t even get to the upgrade part. We reboot our server before the upgrade and our DNS service went down and wouldn’t come back up. We spent a few hours on the phone with some guy from India, but by the time I left it still wasn’t fixed. Hopefully it won’t be too much work this weekend.
From there I met up with the parents and Kim at Folk Life, the best festival in Seattle. They had all been there for a little while before me and were eating when I arrived. We saw some great music and had lots of fun. Kim and I tried to get everyone contra dancing at the end of the evening, but no go. Kim and I had lots of fun though. Contra dancing is like square dancing but you move in lines and change partners a lot. It’s pretty easy, involves lots of spinning, and most everyone who does it a lot is really helpful and nice.
Kim and I are both happy that our parents’ meeting went so well and that it happened before the wedding. One less stress to deal with at the wedding. Which we will start planning soon…