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The annual Kroger (Ann Arbor) Turkey Trot.  The kids come home for it like a bee to the hive.  It's probably our favorite race of the year because of the pictures, the medals, the t-shirts, and the treats at the end.  Ethan and Rebecca told us first that they were coming, and Mark jumped on board, and then seeing as Hannah hasn't been home in forever and a day, I flew her home for it as well (and it's yet another one of our activities that she hasn't experienced).  And since it was the weekend preceding our 30th anniversary, we just rolled everything into one big ball of Kennedy fun.  I should've made a t-shirt for the event, but we'll just count the race t-shirts as the remembrance. Ethan was flying in from DC so that he wouldn't miss a day of work, and Rebecca and the babies drove in on Wednesday afternoon.  Before Ethan landed, we took Rebecca to her favorite restaurant around, Smokehouse 52.  On the way, Baby found a bunch of ginkgo leaves alon...

Dear Glo, We had a pretty interesting week here.  It was good talking to you and President Meservy on Monday.  Thanks for talking to me and putting me on to talk with him.   He seems like a good and caring president. Plus, he has given you mostly good companions and you have learned spanish well and had great success so the places he has put you have obviously been inspired.   On Saturday we went to Patriarch Nortons funeral.  He died about 10 days ago of old age.  He was a great man.  We learned a lot about him in his eulogy and the talks given about him.  He was in counterintelligence in the vietnam war and he posed as a snake collector.  His daughter said when he was a kid he was helping do some tree cutting and got bitten by a copperhead viper and that may have been when he got interested in snakes.  While the snake collector disguise was not the reason he was actually in vietnam, he did catch and use the snakes for antiveno...