My my my Ata!
My my my Ata, what an adventure. I had casually heard from my siblings that you had made a posting about your trip to Egypt. Well, I've never really been a huge computer/internet surfer outside the office so I am just now getting to your blog. And look at you, six entries and they're all awesome. Please don't stop. I am tremendously enjoying every piece of your story. Feel free to describe even more detail.
So, how grand was Abu Simbel? I can’t wait to see your pictures. I hear what you are saying about south of the city being barren. According to Wikipedia, it is one of the driest inhabited places on the earth. The last drought lasted 6 years. That is crazy. What is up with the 5000 year old farming too? Wow, that is truly amazing. Keep the stories coming. I love each and every one of them. By the way Ata, you are an excellent writer. I truly enjoy "hearing" your story. It’s like I’m there by your side. Your creative translation of the days events has often made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
As for the rest of my dear family, here is what Sophia and I have been up to this last weekend. To start off, Greg and Maggie came down for the weekend to run the half marathon (as Greg noted in his earlier post). Peter came over and we stayed in and watched TV. Saturday morning we were at Sophia's 9:00am soccer game. She won. I think the score was 3-0. Then Sat afternoon we went to check out the race course along the Potomac River. Afterwards we swung by the hotel where the race was being organized to pick up our packets which includes our bib number, official race t-shirt and an assortment of junk.
Following packet pickup, we took a short tour of the Viet Nam, Korean and Albert Einstein memorials, snatched some ice cream from Maggie Moo's, and made our way to Peter's apartment for the traditional pre-race spaghetti dinner. Bed time was early that night as we had to be up at 5:30am for a 7:00 start.
All I can say is Sophia is a trooper because the poor kid had no choice in the matter. That alarm clock rang at 5:30 and I was dragging her butt out of bed with the rest of us. She held in there like a champ. Way to go girl. I was in high spirits and I think Greg and Maggie were too. We headed out to the race. It was really cold at 6:30 and pretty much all of us runners (there were 500 of us) were shivering from the cold and anticipation- or was it nerves? The race was very long but steady. We finished in 2hrs 8min. Just under 10 min miles. I wouldn't say it was the toughest run I've ever ran, but it was by no means easy. My lower body was sore pretty much the rest of the day. I think Maggie felt a little like me whereas Greg was completely fine.
All the way home the Sirens of the hot tub were calling to us like we were Odysseus’ sailors- and we obliged readily. After much rest and relaxation we headed to Sophia's second soccer game of the weekend. This game was tough as the other team marched right down the field and scored in about 5 minutes. We were shocked and amazed. We couldn’t remember the last time another team scored on us first. That quickly woke the ladies up. Our girls (by the way their name is the Green Dragons) came back and won the game 3-1. All you can eat Chinese dinner was the reward Sunday night as each of us kicked back, stuffed ourselves and reminisced about our accomplishments of the day.
Monday morning, yesterday, I dropped Sophia off at school, Greg and Maggie off at the airport, and headed to work. All in all, I'd have to say it was one of the best weekends of my life.
That's it from here.
Love you all.
Jack
So, how grand was Abu Simbel? I can’t wait to see your pictures. I hear what you are saying about south of the city being barren. According to Wikipedia, it is one of the driest inhabited places on the earth. The last drought lasted 6 years. That is crazy. What is up with the 5000 year old farming too? Wow, that is truly amazing. Keep the stories coming. I love each and every one of them. By the way Ata, you are an excellent writer. I truly enjoy "hearing" your story. It’s like I’m there by your side. Your creative translation of the days events has often made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
As for the rest of my dear family, here is what Sophia and I have been up to this last weekend. To start off, Greg and Maggie came down for the weekend to run the half marathon (as Greg noted in his earlier post). Peter came over and we stayed in and watched TV. Saturday morning we were at Sophia's 9:00am soccer game. She won. I think the score was 3-0. Then Sat afternoon we went to check out the race course along the Potomac River. Afterwards we swung by the hotel where the race was being organized to pick up our packets which includes our bib number, official race t-shirt and an assortment of junk.
Following packet pickup, we took a short tour of the Viet Nam, Korean and Albert Einstein memorials, snatched some ice cream from Maggie Moo's, and made our way to Peter's apartment for the traditional pre-race spaghetti dinner. Bed time was early that night as we had to be up at 5:30am for a 7:00 start.
All I can say is Sophia is a trooper because the poor kid had no choice in the matter. That alarm clock rang at 5:30 and I was dragging her butt out of bed with the rest of us. She held in there like a champ. Way to go girl. I was in high spirits and I think Greg and Maggie were too. We headed out to the race. It was really cold at 6:30 and pretty much all of us runners (there were 500 of us) were shivering from the cold and anticipation- or was it nerves? The race was very long but steady. We finished in 2hrs 8min. Just under 10 min miles. I wouldn't say it was the toughest run I've ever ran, but it was by no means easy. My lower body was sore pretty much the rest of the day. I think Maggie felt a little like me whereas Greg was completely fine.
All the way home the Sirens of the hot tub were calling to us like we were Odysseus’ sailors- and we obliged readily. After much rest and relaxation we headed to Sophia's second soccer game of the weekend. This game was tough as the other team marched right down the field and scored in about 5 minutes. We were shocked and amazed. We couldn’t remember the last time another team scored on us first. That quickly woke the ladies up. Our girls (by the way their name is the Green Dragons) came back and won the game 3-1. All you can eat Chinese dinner was the reward Sunday night as each of us kicked back, stuffed ourselves and reminisced about our accomplishments of the day.
Monday morning, yesterday, I dropped Sophia off at school, Greg and Maggie off at the airport, and headed to work. All in all, I'd have to say it was one of the best weekends of my life.
That's it from here.
Love you all.
Jack
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