My parents are cute

A few weeks ago my parents sent me a postcard from the Grand Canyon, which I stuck in my bulletin board. Today, I was studying, which involves a lot of staring at the wall, so I looked more closely at it and noticed the handwriting for the first time. My conclusion is that Dad wrote the following:

Dear Amanda: We watched the sunset from this spot. Today we hike 6 miles round trip and over 2000' down into the Canyon. A little out of shape, but we did it. love, Dad

Mom addressed the card and wrote in the date. She also edited the message:

sunset(rise)(6:00AM)

(The parts in parentheses were squeezed between lines with a proofreading insert mark.)

I'm giggling imagining their postcard-writing session: Dad writes messages with slightly-inaccurate stories, Mom does the addresses, dates, fact-checking, and commentary. Also note that while she fixed sunset she didn't fix Dad's tense error. (Judging from context, hike ought to have been hiked.)

I love my parents.

UPDATE: OK, this is even funnier than I thought. I just IM'd Ellen to tell her to read this post, and she got out her postcard to compare. Hers is also written by Dad and dated/addressed by Mom, but Dad wrote sunrise (6:00AM). He must have done hers after mine.

And the best part: Ellen also remarked that it was cute of Dad to write dear and love, which is not his usual style. So I looked back at mine, and Mom totally added in the love. Dad just signed it. He did write the dear, however.