It happened at the "Care Rally" that we had, when the general manager read a letter from a customer to the hotel, and the letter was about how I personally had taken care of him. So the GM had me come up and spin the wheel of prizes, and I got a good one.
Sarah and I had plans for the next few weekends, or responsibilities, so we put it off for awhile. This weekend, we were free, so we decided to go out Friday night, and spend Saturday wandering around. Our hotel was really nice, and we were on the 15th floor, so we had a good view. Here's a pic from our hotel room, as well as a picture of the 16th street mall (Which you can see from our room.) and a pic of a sculpture outside, and a few downtown buildings.
The night was good. It was cool to sleep in a king bed. We ate dinner at Chilis on the 16th St. mall, and went over to the theatre to see Benchwarmers. The next morning, we got up around 9 or 10, and ate breakfast/lunch at a little place called the Extraordinary Egg. Very good service, decent food. Then we wandered around the downtown area. It's a beautiful city. There was a building I remembered from when I'd been here back in 97, and I was able to get directions to it. It's an ornate catholic church at the corner of 19th and Broadway called the Church of the Holy Ghost. A few years back, they were offered a big deal for the land they're on. A corporation wanted to put a skyscraper there, and the church was in the way. Well, the church had been there forever, and didn't want to move. This happens alot in cities, but not necessarily the resulting solution. The church and the business met a compromise in that the church sold the airspace above them, and enough surrounding area to put the base of the skyscraper for 2.5 million. They used the money to build a youth center for kids in the poor area of the city. The resulting image is one of architectural ingenuity. I'll post a few pics, but it's really something to see.
Finally, I was taking a few pics around the house the other day, and got this one of Sarah. It's really cute, and I thought I'd share it.
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Do tell! I thought you guys had wanted a camera and missed your special deal, so didn't get one. What did you get? We'd like a new digital camera, but oddly enough have a nice Canon digital already that we haven't used in over a year. We are just technology junkies. Adams Mark is a nice hotel chain, I have stayed in a couple over the years, most recently a few years ago in Indianapolis. I'm glad you guys got away for a night, alone time is great. No real news here, I will post an update on Paula by tomorow, but no big news.
wow, jim, how cool to get a free night out in a nice hotel! i am happy you both got to have such a nice little mini vacation! i love to have stuff like that. the pictures are really nice. glad to hear about the new camera, too.
did you get dad's email about the song?
pray for the boys this week. we are going to be doing stanford tests all week starting tuesday and they are very nervous. they are saying things like, "i'm probably at first grade level!" and stuff like that. i keep telling them to treat it like a game where they just read the question and color in a bubble. if they don't know the answer, just go on and don't worry about it. they are relieved that the results come to us and no one else will see it. anyway, pray, ok
love,
mom
Thanks for the comment mom! I'm sure the boys'll do well.
Jim. I was going to post this long, drawn out review and evaluation of the camera we got, and Firefox crashed. So now, on Safari, I will post this.
The camera is a Casio Exilim Z60. It's a 6.0 MP with expandable memory out the pskjlup. It takes great pics, but the best part is the 2.5" screen. For such a small camera, that's insane. It has great customer reviews, and was pretty affordable. Especially after my bday money, a walmart gift card, and a shower gift. So we now will have the ability to show baby pics without people having to squint to identify which of the plump little cute things in the bassinet is a baby, and which are the stuffed animals.
Nice.
Peace. I will blog again soon. I psuedo-promise.
Jrnoc! That's a heck of a screen and nice resolution. Is it a battery sucker though? At 6MP, aren't your JPEGs giant in Photoshop? LOL Like 72 DPI and 100 inches wide? LOL And what kind of memory does it take for 6MP pics? Wow! Color me jealous. I'm gonna see if I can go break the Canon....
Sarah is so pretty.
i love you.
KHS
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