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Sunday morning and we went to Pastries-A-Go-Go for a small breakfast. This has become our go to place for breakfast on the weekends, mostly because it’s a no-brainer and going there is practically like stepping out our door and into the restaurant. Sort of.

I think some of the servers are beginning to recognize us too – they’ve always have the same people working there – so you know it’s a good place for servers too apparently.

This is Leah. She’s reciting Chinese phrases and tragically failing at getting me to repeat and learn much more than the little that I know at the moment. But I guess I’ll load the Pimsleur lessons I have onto my .mp3 player and just listen to that for part of the 20 hour flight to China and re-activate the little bit that I do know – at least it’ll acclimate me to listening to the language again.

Packing a little today – but mostly doing all the laundry that we need to do – which is quite substantial since ummmm… well, it just is okay? We were going to do some yesterday but it rained the entire day yesterday and well… we have an odd setup at this current house.

See… this is the back of our house. We rent the upstairs and no one lives downstairs. Anyways, downstairs is setup for a stackable set of washer/dryer however, have you seen the prices for stackables? Insane. So we have a regular set.

Except the washer is upstairs, and the dryer is downstairs. Yes. I wash the clothes, load them up, walk down the stairs and throw them in the dryer. Then bring them back up when they’re done.

On the side of the building there is this long plastic pipe I bought from Lowe’s and hooked up myself so that the water could drain all the way down to the ground since it wasn’t originally set up that way – I can be handy in a half-assed sort of way – I’ll make it work… but it won’t really be pretty and definitely not correct for sure (most of the time).

So it rained all day yesterday and it’s pretty wet and gloomy today but there is no more time – we must battle the laundry!

Oh yeah. Today is ummm… the ING marathon and our friend Deanna J. is running the half marathon, 13.1 miles! Wow! I ran 8 miles once – but I didn’t really train for it – and then I slept for the next two days and didn’t really feel good for 2 more – ha. Yeah.

We crossed the street and went over the railroad tracks to check them out.