Well, I guess it has been quite awhile since I have posted anything. So here is a quick update on what has happened in the last couple of months. For Christmas, I headed down to Waco, TX to visit my good friends Claudia and Pete. They now have two children two adorable children Ethan and Chloe who sadly I hadn't seen yet. As a matter of fact, we came to the conclusion we hadn't seen each other since their wedding which was way to lone. It was great to catch up with them. Unfortunately, when I was there Pete had a little incident with a large racoon which took out the front facia of his car but he was unharmed. We saw a Christmas light show and went to the zoo with the kids while I was there. It was great fun.
After Waco it was off to Houston, TX to see my parents and little brother Cody. Jim flew in for a couple of days which was nice, but the big surprise was my older brother Brent came into town. It was a fun adventure as he spent a few days with my grandma before surprising my parents. The funny part was the day he arrived at my grandma's my mom and I were on are way there, so I had to send some descrete text pages to let him know our time of arrival and departure. It turned out great as he arrived at my parent's place a couple of days later they were surprised.
The day after Christmas, I headed back to Michigan then up to the norther part of Michigan to spend a few days with Jim and his family. We played a few games of card where I became the TURD card champion. Yes, I know what a name. It was fun to finally meet Jim's last sibling (Peggy).
So after a fun couple of weeks off, it was back to work.
After a couple of weeks back at work , it was off on a cold trip to northern Sweden. The location is just about 30 miles south of the Artic Cirle. It is a place where they advertise -40 degrees from November to March. It turned out to be a little warmer than that for us but they had cold soak cell. I was hoping to get to see one of the ICE Hotels but it was over 3 hours away. The other thing about the area is there isn't much light during the winter. We arrived when it is started to head towards more light, but they are a latitude where they have full days of darkness in the winter, and full days of light during the summer. The area reminds me alot of the upper penisula of Michigan with lots of snow, and land , and very few towns. As a matter of fact , the only place to eat is at our hotel which isn't even in a town. The are know for Reindeer and Moose,,,, and yes I ate both on my visit. Sorry kids!
The next adventures!! I have two that I can't wait for... First , it will be off to Hawaii with Jim and Rob. We are renting a plane over on the islands and Jim will be flying us around. It will be a rare opportunity. The second adventure to come is our hiking in Peru to Manchi Pichu. It will be a blast.
Well that is an update for now.
