After a great time at Russ's, we drove from LAX to Matt & Marilyn's place in Bermuda Dunes. On the way, Matt & Marilyn introduced us to 'In & Out Burgers'...wow!! While the burgers were amazing, the chocolate shakes were incredible, too. So much for my resolution to eat more healthily in 2010!

Hello from Southern California! After a wonderful 3 weeks in NH, we headed for Southern California to meet up with friends Russ, Matt & Marilyn. My parents kindly got up in the 'middle of the night' at 3:30am to drive us to Logan for a 7:20 flight. (JK...you've got to agree, 3:30am is truly in the middle of the night???!! ...and I bet Dogger wasn't even at work yet at that time!) Not only has it been great to spend some time w/Russ, Matt & Marilyn, th...

Flew from Atlanta to Boston on Friday evening. It was raining buckets when we left Atlanta and we had to fly through a huge storm. Luckily, it wasn't too bumpy and we arrived in Boston pretty much on time. Flew Delta and they were offering passengers the opportunity to try wi-fi on the flight for free. It worked great, although it just means you can work all the time now...anywhere. Great, just great. Mum & Al met us at the airport and we arrived in Ne...

Tomorrow is our last day in Atlanta, and we've been busy finalising our work stuff. We fly to Boston tomorrow evening on Delta to see my family. The weather here in Atlanta is not supposed to be that good so hopefully we won't be delayed too much. Good-bye Doubletree Suites...hello holiday!!

Arrived in Atlanta last Sunday, the 6th. We're here finishing up our work before holiday and sabbatical officially begins. I was busy this week meeting with colleagues in the Atlanta office, and a business trip to see customer in LAS for Pat. A funny story...the day before we left Iowa, we helped out at our niece's birthday party. One of the little girl's asked Pat if he was her grampa...(children sometimes aren't so kind!). 72 hours later we were sitting in a s...