our friends are still visiting. yesterday we spent a lot of time with them at the zoo, and then i splurged and stayed next door to them with the kids at the ocean park motel so we could relax in the hot tub and not have to rush home for bedtime. it was nice being out on the west side of town near the ocean. the air is a little different, the traffic noises still loud but calmer somehow. we took the l taravel to sushi which my kids pretty much hate. then today we braved the academy of sciences with 4 tired kids. we saw the whoopi goldberg narrated planetarium show which was pretty deep. maya liked watching the baby stars getting born and did not appreciate any dark or scary music. at home later miles said it was a little scary because the sun is going to die. i tried to convince him that in five billion years humans will have changed so much they will be less like us than we are similar to jellyfish, and that by then we will probably have magic powers, and that there will be new solar systems to live in and that we could just teleport there.
he was intrigued, but not convinced or cheered up, really. me neither. it has been so nice being with our old friends who are visiting, even with loud and sometimes quite annoying kids (mostly mine) that it is a reminder that this is our only, short, life. miles and i both get it, even when we don't want to, that these good times are not going to last forever. what to do, how to enjoy them the best we can?
time to write a rock musical, or have a drink on a rooftop deck, or go smooch my sleeping kids.
goodnight
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