Last week, my parents came to visit for a few days. They have been here before, but we took the opportunity to do some things we have not done before.
We saw the movie WALL-E with them. Overall the movie was good and had a good lesson (as most all Pixar films do). But parts of it did seem to be longer than necessary, like they just needed to fill the time without telling more story. On the Fourth of July, we watched fireworks from the church parking lot. The park from which they shoot is only about half a mile from church. So we got a good view without all the crowds (yet there were several hundred people on the parking lot.) It was also a good chance to see and talk members from Hope - informal style. The next day, we went down to Galveston Island. Being from St. Louis, my parents don't get to see the ocean much. We didn't swim in the ocean. We just got our feet wet. Then we gave them a driving tour of the Island - including the Strand. On Sunday after church, my father asked me to go with him to our local Apple store to talk about how he might set up a home network with their old eMac once they get their new iMac. I had a good time being in the store talking tech with my father and the Apple dude. The coolness factor was high. Dad needs an Apple to do the music work he does. I don't need an Apple and am perfectly happy with my Gateway Desktop (blazing fast and with 3 gig of RAM and huge hard drive) running Vista and my new laptop (see previous post). The coolness factor just isn't quite there as much as Apple. But with Apple, you pay a pretty penny to be cool.
And that's about it. It was good to have them here and it was good for the girls to re-connect with their grandparents.
