Star Wars Mania: Palm Sunday Edition

Quick trip to the beach for Shannon to run a 5k over the weekend. Lots of highlights. Pictures to follow. Briefly:

* As we pull into Starbucks for a pit stop on the return trip, Cordelia says, "Wouldn't it be funny if instead of it being Starbucks it was Starfucks?"

Silence.

She continues: "Get it? Starfox?"

We sighed in relief.

* During the race I had the realization that in a few years, we'll be able to run it all of us, as a family I cannot even tell you how excited this makes me, the idea that the last weekend in March will always be our beach 5k together.

That afternoon, I told Cody that some day soon, we'd all be able to run it together:

Cody: Yeah, and when we do, I'll beat Cordelia.

JVL: [stunned silence]

Cody: I will beat Cordelia, right?

JVL: That's really not the point, buddy. It's not a competition. We do it to have fun together as a family.

Cody: Sure. It's not a competition. But I'll still beat Cordelia, won't I?

* At church on Sunday the kids were fantastically well behaved, even with the 17-minute Gospel reading. But the best moment maybe of the whole weekend came after this section of the reading:

Now on the occasion of the feast he used to release to themone prisoner whom they requested.A man called Barabbas was then in prison along with the rebels who had committed murder in a rebellion.

Upon hearing this, Cody immediately turned to me and whispered in excitement, "Wait--were they in the same rebellion as in Star Wars? Did Jesus know Luke Skywalker?!?"