The Zoo, The Schoo', and The New

The Peterson family has had a super eventful week. Last Wednesday, after Jennie's orientation, we hopped in the car and drove to Montecello, Utah. We stayed the night in the most fantastic National 9 Motel you ever did see, then woke up and continued our trek to Los Alamos on Thursday. We arrived just in time to admire Mom and Dad Peterson's new windows (which are gorgeous!), play some pinball on the Wii, and eat some celebratory Lasagna.

We arose early Friday morning to an uncharacteristically rainy day. Sean had a piano lesson, which included some playing and teaching, and much more enjoyable conversation. Lynn Lamb is by far the coolest piano teacher in the universe!

That afternoon it dried off and Brandon and Michal came to visit so we decided to go to Disneyland! Just kidding, we went to Bandelier:


Then Saturday we got to go to Jennie's favorite place in all of Albuquerque, and one of solemn reminiscence on Sean's part. That's right, we refer to the great Albuquerque Zoo, the infamous locale of flamingos,


polar bears,


and empty stages where once sat a young pianist, who, along with an orchestra and some very loud ducks and swans, serenaded a crowd one fateful Mother's Day so many many years ago...


Alas, we returned home Sunday night after a long a perilous journey where our i-pod was completely dead and thus we were forced to use those ancient devices known as compact disks.

Monday has brought a joyful mixture of long-awaited excitement and incomprehensable overwhelmtion. That's right folks, back to school night! The parents just kept coming and Jennie kept talking until she was exhausted! The kids are cute and the classes seem to be about 25 each, at least they were today, who knows how many more kids will register tomorrow?

In other joyful news, Sean and Jennie will officially become Uncle Sean and Aunt Jennie tomorrow as Sam delivers Kaitlyn tomorrow. Did I mention Kaity will be born tomorrow, yes I mean Tuesday which is tomorrow!