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Yesterday April 26th, 2008, I decided to take my family to downtown Washington, DC and visit the Native American Museum and the Natural History Museum . We, as a family, went to these museums a few weeks ago however Tabitha, my four and a half year old, didn't get to see the Hope Diamond in the Natural History Museum and we didn't see the whole Native American Museum. Anyway yesterday, we decided to go to the museums. Well by the end of the trip, we were all exhausted from walking in the eighty degree weather and I was kinda frustrated since the trip didn't go as I had planned. The kids were being kids and I thought I could educate them on Native American history. In the end, the kids wanted to run around and I didn't enjoy our museum excursions. Maybe I wanted my kids to grow up too fast. Now looking back at it, I realize that it was a typical day consisted of parenting our children and leaving Michelle and I, the parents, exhausted and sometimes frustrated.

Well I did it and it wasn't easy. For viewers like myself who envy the judges on the cooking contests, I have to say it ain't easy being a judge. As many of you know, I judged two Chili contests. The first one was the Chili Verde contest a.k.a and Green Chili contest. We, the judges, had to judge fifteen bowls of green chili and it was very hard. You had to judge the chili for taste, color, texture of the chili and the texture of the white meat. Some of the green chilis were a no brainer. They just didn't belong there. The other ones almost tasted the same or did they taste the same. It was like giving your taste buds a workout. Overall it was a good experience and I had my favorite chili in the green chili contest. Eventhough green chili was NOT green, it had corn, white meat, beaucoup spices; I thought it was the best chili of the competition. The red chili contest, which happened couple of hours later, was not easy either but in the end I was happy that I had lo

I witnessed a precious moment today. Tabitha says, "Hey Papa, Did you know I have two papas. One is in Maryland and the other is in heaven". This moment made my day...actually it made my week.