I was trying to clean up my computer - tells you how this rainy afternoon was spent - and found this old photo I put on the original webpage I started when Maggie was young. Click here to have a look.


Been reflecting on how computer savvy kids are now when we didn't use computers until college - remember Unix? I hated going to the labs to use the school's computers so I finally took out a student loan and bought a Mac for over $2,000. (Before that I had an old Brother word processor/typewriter that used thermal transfer cartridges. It had a tiny litle screen that held a few lines of text that I could edit before printing.) I forgot exactly which Mac I got, SE, maybe. Paul had an older Mac that he had to keep swapping 3.5" disks to run or store anything on. We also had those noisy old dot matix printers that took all night to print long college papers.

It's not really a computer, but I'll include it in my computer history. We had a Magnavox Odyssey2 that my parents bought because of the keyboard (for educational games) when we wanted an Atari, instead. Here's a video someone put on You Tube of one of my favorite games - Pick Axe Pete!



I'll end this reminiscing with one more old photo of Alex on my Dad's old manual typewriter. Melodie and I got to type our papers on it when we didn't write them out by hand. Need finger strength to type!

During the kids spring break we decided to go check out the Venetian Macau. We stayed a couple of nights and enjoyed the Cirque du Soleil Zaia as part of our package.

The suite had a partially canopied bed for us and the kids had the sofa bed in the sunken living room.



We marveled at the fresco on the ceiling above the casino and mall.


We ate Fatburger, pho, fajitas, and ramen at the food court. Notice the blue sky - too bad the actual weather outside was rainy since there were lots of outdoor swimming pools and a nice looking mini-golf area we could have used.

We walked around browsing the shops along the canals, rode the gondola and had "That's Amore" sung to us. (Yes, Alex got the hat.)


Alex also got to try some interactive soccer games at the Manchester United Experience store.



We also left the kids at Qube play area for a couple of hours. They enjoyed the slides the most.

Maggie is 13 - a teenager! We celebrated by going to dinner at Dan Ryan's with Grandma and Grandpa as well as school friends.