We are really grateful our friends Al and Michele Rizos came to spend the weekend with us. They were a huge help at our weekend party and we had a chance to catch up a little after everyone else left. We absolutely need to plan to do this kind of thing way more frequently. We ate entirely too much really good food which seems to be a fixed feature of every time we get together and we solved all the problems of the world (in our minds). Not saying it is an echo chamber, but, well, it kind of is. It is a good kind of echo chamber though.