HAPPY LEAP DAY!!
I just think that this is such a fun day... anything that only happens once every 4 years is so rare that it's fun! I should say happy 21st birthday to Paul Lindgren!!!
So while I was at work this morning I spent a little time looking up information about leap days. I learned that back in the old days, women could only propose to their men on leap days. Maybe this is common knowledge, but I thought it was interesting. The reason that we have a leap year in the first place is because a year isn't exactly 365 days long. It's actually 365 days, 5 hours, and 49 minutes. So it actually takes a little more fine tuning to our callender than just adding a day every four years. I found out that every 100 years we skip a leap year (except for every 400 years where we still have a leep year). So in the years 1800 and 1900 there was no leap day, but in 2000 there was. Maybe it's just me, but I think that's pretty interesting.
Another fun thing that Elizabeth and I did today was go out for sushi with Erick down at Tokyo Steak House in Ankeny. I was very proud of Elizabeth because she was adventurous and willing to try something out of the norm. We split a couple of fancy rolls (one of them was tempura fried), and then I also ordered a spicy salmon roll and a eel with avacodo roll. Elizabeth added a Philadelphia roll. It was very yummy. Maybe going out for sushi could be a fun tradition that we do every leap day? Kind of like how we make homemade pizza for Valentines day. I enjoy little traditions like that. I'm guessing that since it only comes around about once every 4 years that by the next leap day we will be lucky to remember this tradition anyways!
Love you Elizabeth.
You two are too cute.
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