Check out Emily's new car! It's a 2004 Honda Accord that she loves very much. She keeps asking me things like, "don't you think my car is nice? It's nicer than yours isn't it? Don't you think I should start parking under the covered spot, now that I have the nicer car?"

In other news, Emily's job has been going well for her. At first she was scared and undecided about it. Every 20 minutes she would change her mind about wether or not she would stay. Now it has begun to grow on her and she actually enjoys it on occasion. But she won't know for sure until she is done with the 3 month long training.

I got a new group of students today. It is our largest class yet with 53 (or thereabout) students. We must keep the same number of groups for the projects, so the groups will be huge. During the shoots there will be even more people standing around doing nothing than usual.

Last weekend Emily and I went to Washington DC for my sister's graduation. We few in on Saturday afternoon. Ate with Emily's mom and Tom at one of her favorite restaurants, the Carlisle Grand. After lunch, Emily and I drove into DC and took a walk down the trail at our old dog park. It was great, the weather was perfect and we had fun remembering the time we spent there when Turtle was a baby.

We walked around Friendship Heights for an hour, then met up with my sister, Grandma Lil, mom and dad at an Asian restaurant in Chinatown. The restaurant was located one block from the MCI center (now called the Verizon center?). The traffic was gridlocked and we had to drive around the block three times before we could even make it to the valet stand. When we got inside, Grandma could not read the menu, because she "can't read Spanish" (we were at an Asian restaurant with an english menu). We tried to help her order, but she couldn't figure out that the vegetable fried rice was not a salad. When she finally figured it out, she asked the waiter to put some vegetables in it! Emily and I hung out with Diane in the evening and tried (unsuccessfully) to go to sleep early.

Sunday morning I woke up at 9:00 and kept quiet until 11:00, when Emily woke up. We met my entire family (from both sides) at Chef Geoff's, one of our favorite DC restaurants. The place was packed. They tried to seat us outside, but it didn't take long for my mother and grandmother to complain about the freezing rain. We moved inside and eventually got served. The food, of course, was worth the wait. Next stop was Wagshal's Deli. It would have been a shame to go to DC and not pick up a sandwich from there.

Lindsey's graduation was at 4:30. Typical graduation ceremony - lots of waiting and a few seconds of excitement. But she did it! I was so proud of her. Now she just has to find a job before getting kicked out on the street.