you are so lovely!!!

Hi Miss Peanut,

I just saw the cutest pictures of you and Dada at Zoe and Brian's last night. And were those water guns? What kind of a fun night did you have?? Tell me all about it. I love you!! Happy Friday. Hope this week was a really fun one. Here in Egypt Friday is a holiday, so we went on a field trip to see a temple and a mountain with a lot of tombs carved in it (they were big holes really). But, the cool thing is that I looked down a few of these holes that I'd never looked in before and I saw lots and lots of big sheep mummies (though this picture is of human mummies--yuck!). The sheep were much cuter, big and yellow with long eyelashes painted on them so they looked kind of like muppets. I'll try to get pictures of that soon (these are from last year). So, that was fun. After that I had meetings with all of the students to tell them how great they are (all except one, I'm afraid). And then it was a wonderful dinner, and then no water for the shower. Ah well. Tomorrow we start excavation, so I should have lots of good stories to tell.

Meanwhile, send a note from the barn. And give Mai-Mai and Baba lots and lots of love from me. I hope they had a lot of fun in Egypt. Also, you should remember to measure yourself. When my students saw the pictures from Zoe and Brian's they were oohing and ahhing about how tall you are, and I was too. You look so good to me!! Well, hug those grandparents for me!

I love you, my dearest girl!!

- your Mama