Sprout cracked me up with the naming. My MIL looked at Sprout like she was an extra--terrestrial or something. "How do you know they are different?" MIL asked. "I just looked at them," replied Sprout, as if nothing could be more obvious.

Thankfully, J was safe. The blast was in the north of Cairo. He works in Giza, near the Nile, which is "westbank" and further south than the trouble.