Oh the weekends are so great! We had another fun filled weekend here in the ol capital. Friday night we got to go play tennis! There are tons of courts near us, and we found some that stayed lighted till 11! That was exciting for us.
Saturday we planned a little trip south to Mt. Vernon. It was only about 40 min. It was quite an impressive estate. Washington really did own quite a bit of land. They have kept it all up really well since the 1880's or so I believe. There are gardens, a greenhouse, farmland with animals, and the mansion with it's surrounding servants homes.
Nate heard a cool monolugue from one of Washington's slaves. We learned that he had about 316, but in his last will and testament he freed them all. The slavery paradox is one of the most difficult to figure out in all of history. The founding fathers pledge "all men are created equal", yet many owned slaves and women, their wives and daughters, had no rights. This house slave of Mr. Washington said that his ideaolgy of slavery did change for the better as he grew older. Anyway, just something to think about, and Mt. Vernon got me thinking about it.
Nate and I then drove to Clark and Kara's to watch the secong half of the Utah game. Oh it was too bad they lost, we felt bad. We felt like it was the Oregon State game from last year, only too bad we didn't have B.J. to put together one of his amazing last minute drives. Oh well, better luck next week!
That is all for now, life is good! Oh and we forgot our camera at Mt. Vernon, just picture Nate and I in this picture!
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