Former President Carter Visits Dubai

I feel old helping Gaby with her 8th grade history homework.  As I read in her history text book about the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iran-Contra Affair, and First Gulf War, I realize that I was alive and closely followed those and about a third of all the events described in her history text book.   

Former President Jimmy Carter visited Dubai in January.  It was a hard sell to convince Gaby to come hear him speak at the U.S. Consulate.  In the end, I convinced her that it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that she could not pass up.  He did not disappoint.  We were impressed with how active, up on political and world events, and involved in various humanitarian causes he still is - despite being 89 years old.