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Well hey Rebecca, this is Justin, KK7 QES. It's been a good weekend, but I'm a little tuckered out tonight. 7-3 by the way and waves to Brian if he is out there somewhere. I'm sure he is. Anyway, we had a wonderful day. So we have visitors in town right now. I mentioned this on the net last night, but my wife's family hosted an exchange student from Japan named Megumi. Five different times while she was growing up and she is in town now with her two college-aged children for a visit and this is the first time this weekend that my wife has seen her since she was, we determined it today, 11 years old I think so. Really cool to connect with her and yeah, just kind of yeah, make that happen. But today was a it was kind of a big sightseeing day and we got to be tourists in our own city, which was really cool. My favorite event of the day was we went out on Lake Union for a couple hours. We rented a boat from the Electric Boat Company. I've rented boats from them a couple times and it's super fun and maybe more affordable than you think and yeah, I have always had a blast. But anyway, we went out and got a boat that accommodated her group of 11 and my wife made a awesome picnic lunch and we just hung out and cruised for a few hours. I'm always struck anytime I've been out on Lake Union. Well, first of all, it's a really cool different vantage point of the city than you usually see. But I always think like, oh, it's no wonder that traffic and the driving experience in the greater Seattle area can at times be so miserable because there is water and hills and bridges in every direction that you look and it's really pretty. But it's just bottlenecks as far as the eye can see. Anyway, we had a good time and the weather cooperated. It was great. So we did that. We went up the Space Needle. I had not done that since I was 18 and my wife reminded me that that was one of our very first dates that we ever went on together was going up the Space Needle. Yeah, fun stuff there and another cool vantage point with which to see the city. So it was wonderful. But yeah, I'm tuckered and tomorrow is work. My wife is continuing on with kind of showing them around town. They're doing the aquarium and going to a mayor's game tomorrow night. So I told my wife that the goal is they have to be able to make it on the TV broadcast so that I can see them. Anyway, that's all that's going on over here. I'm going to go to bed soon. KK7 QES, back in that.