During dinner we befriend a very sweet American couple who are actually around our ages – almost a breath of fresh air, since for our whole trip we have been the youngest everywhere we go. They were a married couple from Seattle. She runs some kind of graphic stationary business out of their house and he had a started a video game company that got bought a few years ago by some super duper leader in the industry. Apparently, he did the Lord of the Rings game, the kind that works with Playstation and Xbox (but not the one I put on Scott’s cell phone for me to play when bored). His grandfather worked on the Manhattan project as some kind of metallurgist, which was fascinating to hear about, particularly when they told us the story of his mother living at Las Alomos and knowing only that her father was working on something that would supposedly end the war. His mother, in her adulthood, came to be friends with a Japanese woman who had lived near Hiroshima at the time of the bombing. If that doesn’t have book written all over it I don’t know what does.
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