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Olympia one more time.

Last time I was in Olympia it snowed for 8 days and we were stuck here with our kids unable to go out. Today it's amazingly beautiful and I wish I didn't have to leave.

Getting ready to head to Seattle. Big 70 birthday lunch for my dad and then a flight back to Dallas.

Trip has been great but I'm looking forward to being home for over a month before summer season starts.

Dec 20, 2008

Leaving Whidbey Island after spending the night at my sisters. Had a great time. Kids played a lot of video games. It's always fun to be where I grew up. Heading to Olympia to drop off some bags and then down to my parents in Longbeach. Great vacation so far. Kaije lost a tooth yesterday and was surprised the tooth ferry found him.

Sep 21, 2008

Sitting in the Las Vegas airport waiting to fly back to Dallas. Trying to fly standby. My history is not good with the standby gamble.

This was a good weekend. Made some great connections at the BlogWorld Expo and the GodBlog conference. My perspective is shifting on how to use my blogs. This will be something to think about for a while.

Back and ready to rock.

Made it back from Romania last night.  Glad to be home.  Was a little tough how the trip ended with me being stuck in Bucharest.  On a positive note Fred also got back last night so that was successful.  Looking forward to a couple of days of slowness although I'm assuming work will be a bit busy this week after being out of the office for a month.

Stuck in Bucharest

Several times over the last bunch of years I've come across situations that the famous Rood Problem Solving Techniques don't work on. Today was one of those problems. At 3am we got in a car to get on a 5 am train to Bucharest. My friend Fred who is on my youth staff has had a difficult time making it here because he has a Kenyan passport and must obtain Visas for every country we enter. Fred had an appointment today at the American embasy to get a stamp so he could reenter the US.
Unfortunately they missplaced his appointment info which set us back a while and then they were unable to process his passport today. So this leaves us in Bucharest waiting to get his passport. Unfortunately it also means we are unable to join our ymteam to finish the Gypsy camp. We'll hang out here waiting for his passport and will meet them at the airport on Wed.

It also means I'm traveling light for the next 48. I have the clothes I'm wearing, two books I just bought and my iPhone. :)

So much rain so little Germany.

Ok so it rained today. A lot of today. We had hoped to be touristy but really didn't get to see much.

Tomorrow morning the team from Dallas shoes up and we're meeting them at the Munich airport to fly to Romania.

Jul 21, 2008 one more Munich post

Today I watched a guy surf on a river in Munich. Looked like a lot of fun. Tough start though as you had to jump from the shore and land feet first on your board in a standing wave.

Good trip so far. Almost over jet lag. The team arrives Wed morning and we'll fly to Romania together.

Jul 20, 2008

What is the HardRock Cafe good for in Munich? Free Wi-Fi for one thing. Sadly not for food though apparently their kitchen is slammed so we can't order.

Jul 20, 2008

What is the HardRock Cafe good for in Munich? Free Wi-Fi for one thing. Sadly not for food though apparently their kitchen is slammed so we can't order.

Jul 20, 2008

What is the HardRock Cafe good for in Munich? Free Wi-Fi for one thing. Sadly not for food though apparently their kitchen is slammed so we can't order.