Homeschool day 28 of 180
Jim and JoAnn just got back from visiting Washington D.C. with Dean and Phyllis Sartain. It sounds like they had a great time. Our whole family is quite envious because they actually got to see George W. Bush get into his helicopter! You can read about it in JoAnn’s blog comment here. There certainly is a big hole in our little Sunday morning meeting when they are gone. She was right that we really need to take the kids to Washington D.C. to see the sights soon. Also, we need to go down to Mexico City and see the sights there, too. They are both amazing cities that have seen lots of bloody battles and have centuries of history of which our family is a product.
JoAnn made a particularly insightful statement about the friendliness of the people in Washington D.C. I had that same experience when I went there. In fact, I was kind of shocked coming back to Oregon and finding that the culture was really quite aloof. I think that is less true once you get out of the Willamette Valley, but it saddened me. We were reminded of all this again when we went to Texas for six months. The good part of all that, though was that it has made us even more appreciative of the warmness of our friends here and throughout the world.