

I'm back from the great state of Colorado! My grandparents were celebrating their 50th anniversary and everyone but my cousin Justin was able to make it out. My grandparents looked great. I am still shocked that my grandparents have been married for 50 years. My folks didn't even make it to the ten-year mark before calling it quits. It's amazing how much American society has changed over the past few decades......I didn't get to talk as much about American polity as I would have liked, but overall it was a good feel. I'm glad we're all in the same camp about Senator McCain being a really awful choice, but the majority of 'em are just too scared of Senator Obama to vote for him. I can understand why (they're old and they live in the rural Mountain West), but John McCain is a very, very dangerous man; a man that could very well draft their sons and grandsons in an attempt to foster even more needless, ill-advised proxy wars in the Middle East and maybe even a full-fledged war on the Russian frontier. I was surprised at how polite I was, and I name-dropped Bob Barr as an alternative to Senator McCain, but then they all got distressed looks on their faces and inevitably started talking about how they voted for Ross Perot in 1992.........
Anyway, I'm starting to ramble, but you can check out a couple of pictures from the reunion that I stole from my cousin's Facebook page.



There were a lot of questions about my little shindig to Africa as well as the "are you and Anna really married?" questions. Inside jokes are soooo fun!
Overall, I had a blast. I absolutely love it out in the Mountain West. The thunderstorms are, to me, a gentle reminder of where I came from; the smell of rain in the Rockies lets me know that I am truly in God's good company.
Oh, and on our way back Michael and I stopped by my Uncle James and Aunt Susan's house and he lent me Greenspan's new book. This means that I have to put 'Democracy in America' on hold, but I'm stoked to be reading Greenspan, even if he was a government bureaucrat......
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