This is my second year of blogging, as I started in September of 2004. Here’s to more interesting and more frequent (but not crazy-frequent) posts. And to more photos…

Any cake-baking for the Typing in the Dark’s birthday can be done in chocolate with coconut or chocolate frosting.

So today I was at a training for MESA (Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement) which was in a 100-year old building with creaky floors and original blackboards. My lunch was free and the training didn’t start until 8:30. We got finished at 2:30 after playing with clay and sun shadow points, so I walked to the coffee house across the street to grade papers with an Americano.

I picked up Justin a couple of hours later after running some errands and we grabbed some dinner at Kidd Valley burgers. We got an early meal because we had FREE entry* to see the Dead See Scrolls at the Pacific Science Center! After some light, though unnecessary snacks (d’oh–we should have known they’d feed us well!) culled from the tables of cheese, crackers, fruit, pitas and dip, cookies, and more, we started our windy voyage through the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. The processes used to date, preserve, and piece together the scrolls amazed me, as did the information provided to us as background. I stood amazed once we reached the room with the scroll fragments. To see Ezekiel, Genesis, Psalm 119, Isaiah, and Exodus written on parchment or papyrus from over 2,000 years ago felt surreal. To see coins and clay jars that were from Jesus’ time transported me to that biblical era.

These times are when it’s great to be a teacher.

Did I mention our free, cheesy IMAX “experience” that capped off our evening, “Mysteries of Ancient Egypt”?

Here’s another great reason to be married to a man who appreciates the Old Testament AND Science–when free dates to the science center to see ancient scrolls come along, we both get excited and consider it a night out!

*this would have been a $15 ticket each otherwise.