Friday, October 19, 2018

Weekend Update

We did a quick overnighter trip to Portland last Saturday. Had some fun watching Didi and Mal play sports, ate some good food, watched the Huskies heartbreaker to Oregon (we need a good kicker)....

Jogathon went off without a hitch. All the kids ran their hearts out and I hope we raised a lot of money for the school's new playground and fitness funds. Becky was my 'professional photographer' for the event and she sent me this little preview photo which I loved. Christian ran 31 laps in 30 minutes and Olin ran 17 laps in 19 minutes. Each lap was around 1/10 of a mile.

We happened upon a 15 minute Magnus Carlsen interview on YouTube and it energized them to play some chess at 9pm last night. They are both proficient in and enjoy the Queen-King checkmate and the 2-rook checkmate. They say they know the 1-rook checkmate but I haven't seen it in action yet. It's a little harder.

I wrote these notes to the kids 2 weekends ago when we were in Seattle and I found it very funny that they wrote back to me on the bottom. Christian wrote "Thanks for the card. I love you." Olin wrote "I soll that, From Olin". He means he saw the card. 

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