OK, so they are the world's largest penal colony. AND the world's largest (I think) provider of finished clothing. I love the Olympics. Of course, to me the Games are strictly Track and Field. All that other stuff, Gymnastics, Diving, etc. you can keep. I don't like any sport that requires a judge to decide who is the better athlete. Give me a race or a toss any time. If you get there first, you win. No style points. No degrees of difficulty. Mano a mano, so to speak.
Anyway, I'm having trouble posting from the Blogger site, but I can post by adding a photo from Flickr.com (Which, by the way, I highly recommend.)
To finish some housekeeping, thanks to Margaret Nolen, the lady who sat next to me on the Seattle flight I talked about a few posts ago, for this update: Just a couple of add-on's to your story: Caleb's mom is married to a Fort Lewis soldier who is in Iraq and hasn't seen Caleb since he was 2 weeks old. She was travelling to Philadelphia to see her family.
Whatever you think of the war, I hope we can get those men and women home ASAP(!) so they can pick up with their families. If you've never served you have no idea how stressful it is to be separated from your family. And Caleb needs his Daddy!
Also Margaret was travelling to Philadelphia to see her daughter compete for the University of Wisconsin in the IRA rowing championships. Well, the Wisconsin Badger Lightweight Women's 8+ crew won a national championship with me watching. It was a good mom thing to make that trip.
I agree Margaret. Congrats to your daughter. Crew is about the hardest sport going. It looks to peacefull and idyllic to watch, but the effort extended by the rowers is absolutely incredible.
Mick and I are headed off to Costa Rica (The Rich Coast) this weekend. I hope to have some good photos in a couple weeks.
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