Great Uncle Peter & Aunt Becky Drop By

My great Aunt Becky and Uncle Peter Van de Water stopped in tonight on their way to China for three weeks. They're going to see the Great Wall, Emperor Shi Huangdi's Terra Cotta Army, the highlands of Lhasa, Tibet, the headwaters of the Yangtze and other fascinating sights with 7 other couples. They were really interesting and commanded my full attention.After I went to bed I could hear them talking to Mom and Dad about the spiral notebook industry (and how my Great Great Aunt Kay Van de Water married the inventor of the spiral notebook and how, many years later, my Grandpa Mike on Mom's side of the family briefly manufactured them); my distant relative whose nephew Carlty Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1976 for first discovering the human form of mad cow disease; and how Americans finally seem to be catching on to this whole concept of environmental stewardship.