For about 6+ months now, one of the big news topics is the rising price of gas. An impending hurricane would send gas prices up and up and they got as high as $4+/gallon by October 2008.
But the last couple of weeks, they have been dropping and dropping…and are now down to ~$1.74 (my sister even saw $1.68!). I know this isn’t Mallory or Arlo related but thought it would be good information for when they come back and read this in 30 years and gas is up to $20/gallon or something :-)
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Other news of the times – the recent election. It was a very historic campaign – the Republican candidate (John McCain) chose a woman running mate (Sarah Palin) and the Democratic candidate (Barack Obama) was (and still is, I guess) African American. Obama won the 2008 Presidential Election and it was a huge deal. Neither Rick nor I are real political so we didn’t really get into the election much but it was still interesting to watch history being made.
(I realize this makes me sound a little dumb talking about gas prices and then the history-making presidential elections but oh well.)