After visiting Jasmine and John in San Francisco, I had the chance to make a quick trip to Seattle to visit my Uncle Tony, Aunt Joni, and cousins Alyssa and Jared, as well as to catch up with my girlfriends (and roommates) from college.
It was a very quick visit. Aunt Joni and my cousins Alyssa and Jared met me at the airport, and then we went to visit Uncle Tony's offices at Microsoft, where he works in the XBox division. It was a special treat-- not only did we get a hands-on demo of the latest Microsoft product, which is a large table with interactive software for editing and collaboration, but we saw the offices decorated for Halloween. These weren't your average decorations. Instead, it was another world! Uncle Tony said that each group/division competes to have the best decorations, and that in the past some groups have even hired professional movie set decorators for assistance! Uncle Tony's hallway with a moving ghost was definitely making a strong showing.
I had a great time with Alyssa and Jared. They showed me their Wii program, and we did some ski jumping. The part of the program where you can make your own character was really fun. We saw the Uncle David guy, which looked just like Uncle David! We worked on making a character for me, which wears all black (naturally) and has short spiky hair and glasses. Now I will be another face in the crowd when Alyssa and Jared play their games. I loved seeing how much both of them have changed, and I hope I get to host Alyssa next summer in New York City when "Cousin Kelly Camp" opens its doors for its first visitor.
At the top is a picture of my roommates and me. We all lived together our senior year in college. We were quite a large entourage-- 5 adults (actually, six-- Megan's mom was visiting from Kentucky and took the picture) and 3 kids-- ages 3, 2 and 1. Coincidentally, the weekend we all decided to meet in Seattle, which is where Megan and Claire live, was the weekend of our 10th college reunion. Time really flies by. I love that although we have very different lives, different interests and are scattered across the country, we still have a connection that keeps us close.
2 comments:
Alyssa and Jared: can I request you to make a character for me? I want to be in the audience watching you ski too!
Dude, we lived in 420!
Love the pic and love your blog, I'll start catching up on it now. WTF, I didn't even know you baked! I was sorry to not be able to talk more while you were here, so I'll catch up this way!
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