Raleigh, North Carolina
December 29, 2010

"What are we doing, Ly-Ly?" Phoenix asked as her big sister handed her a pen and paper.

"We're gonna write letters to ourselves, bury them, then dig them up several years from now." Lyra explained.

"Like a time capsule?"

"Yeah. Exactly."

"Okay!"

Phoenix was still in kindergarten, so she could only write simple things.

Lyra wrote about half a page, and was done.

Phoenix was only done with the first sentence.

Her big sissy helped her finish, then they folded the two letters up, placed them in a box, and went out to the backyard.

Lyra got a mini-shovel, and started to dig. When the hole was big and deep enough, Phoenix placed the box in it.

"Bye bye, letters!" she waved as Lyra put the dirt back.

When she padded down the dirt, she sighed and smiled.

"What should we do now?" Phoenix asked.

Lyra paused. "Hmmm... Wanna go hide Dad's bottles of Bailey's?"

Little Phoenix grinned big. "Yeah!"

Gabriel would be pissed tonight.