PHONE CALLS

The other night dad said that while they were up in the bedroom star gazing out the window Mimi made a wish to see her friends soon and that she misses them a lot. She also misses our kitties Ollie and Stanley and so do I, After a day of driving back to Fredrick Maryland for Joe's wedding, we checked into the hotel, went to dinner at the Olive Garden with Joe, Mari and their friend JR. Finally around 7:30 p.m. we made it back to the hotel where Mimi made phone calls to her friends at home. Made her feel a little better.

ROCK CLIMBING

After arriving in Norfolk, Cousin Mari spent the majority of her time visiting old friends which is understandable since she now lives in Japan. On this particular day (Tues. 9/23) she and her friend Jon were nice enough to take Mimi rock climbing which is something that both Mari and Jon love to do when they have the time. Mimi loves to climb. She's always been that way since coming home from China way back in 2004. Hence the gymnastic classes. Mimi did pretty doggone good that day scaling a 30 ft. wall. She not only climbed the wall once but twice, then she tried another wall that was a little more difficult but was only able to scale it half way. Pictured in the video is Jon giving her some advice while Mari is at the bottom being her anchor. She even received a t-shirt for claiming her victory. After rock climbing the rocks we all went out to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. While waiting for the food, Mimi and Jon played one of Mimi's favorite games of tic tac toe. Next we heard Jon tell Mari that she needs to finish the game with Mimi because "I'm not going to be beat by a 5 year old!" Mimi had him positioned so that no matter where he put his move, he would lose. This is after getting beat up 3 times by Mimi that morning before rock climbing. They were horsing around at the house and Jon said to Mimi "Let's fight!!!" So she did and kicked him in the family jewels. As he was bowling over Mari he says "Who taught her to fight???" Mari then reminded him "Well you told her to fight!" That's our Mimi.

WILLIAMSBURG REVISITED

Last Monday (9/22) Uncle David and Auntie Setsue took Mimi, mom and dad to Williamsburg to revisit our colonial past history. As usual dad being the architect that he is, had a good time taking pictures of all the historical buildings. A grand time was had by all.