Well, lots of things happened this past weekend. First, we enjoyed Brad and Emilie's BBQ on Friday night, featuring Lisa the Scorpion Girl. The grub was good, new bottlecaps were splendid, and the Laffy Taffy jokes were lame but plentiful. On Saturday, I attended Breanna Mahler's baptism, then we visited Callaghan Park for some rollerskating and rollerbladeing. The last time I rollerskated, I was 60 lbs. lighter and 21 years younger - no small wonder I sucked so bad. Whilst there, we witnessed the site of Brad's unfortunate dragging. On the way back home, we broke down and finally tried In-N-Out Burger, and I got a tasty vanilla shake from their limited menu, and wondered about the lap mats and kid's stickers we also were given whilst gobbling down our yummy burgers and weird fries.

Thirdly, the Deep Impact Comet Tempel 1-smashing probe went off without a hitch. Very cool. On the Fourth, we hit South Lake Tahoe for some excellent food at Stone St. Bar & Grill at Caesars Tahoe Hotel/Casino, then some cold lake water frolicking at the beach (poor Jared was shivering but enjoying the water, just the same), followed by a warm jacuzzi and crystal-clear pool at the nearby hotel. After that, we descended and came back to Reno for the fireworks at Rancho San Rafael park. What a zoo!

Tonight, we swung by Northgate Park for a walk with our new green stroller (our old one got all bent up), and Becca found some more bottlecaps. We played on the playground equipment for as long as we could stand the nearby stinky/poopy dead animal smell, but had to cut our visit short because of it. Yucka.

A few weeks ago (before my recent trip to Vegas), Becky had never heard the name "Las Vegas" before. So when we started talking about it, she ended up calling it something like "Lost Bagels" or "Lost Baggis" - it was very cute. Of course, she later learned that it's a Spanish term for "the fertile valleys", so now she's informed and says it correctly.

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