this morning

Didn't sleep much last night. Just checked and the path of the hurricane seems to have turned north. Is it enough to hope that Palacios will be spared the worst of it? Still too soon to know for sure though. There are so many people in Houston. I hope that everyone who left in their own car checked to make sure their neighbors got out. The poor Katrina refugees. They have to go through a second evacuation. Let's hope that New Orleans was the wake up call, and we don't have a repeat of the atrocities.

Did I understand correctly that inland Texas will get 15-30 inches of rain?!? I can't imagine that much water even in our swamp of a neighborhood :-)

David has a fever and headache but it seems to be getting better. If he does we might go and get a set of bed sheets (we only brought enough for 1 kids bed) and a box to hold the very cool new lego set Arthur chose for his birthday. We can't afford the $200 Mindstorm Robot set, but the record & play set (Arthur calls it the "Repeat Robot") is only 20 bucks. There is a book of 12 robot ideas. The robot brain wil repeat a simple action you record on it. We'll try to upload the picture after breakfast.

There is an offer for a Lego magazine (really an ad catalog). You can get it in French and we were really excited to order a copy, but the fine print says you have to reside in Canada. The English Language Nazis strike again.