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I'm Back!
So we returned without any problems. The flights were great, watched some horrible movies, ate some cheap airline food, and got welcomed back to Detroit!
The trip was amazing. I got in super late last night and did not get to unpack anything! I got some cool gifts for people and took over 200 pictures! I am really excited to get them loaded onto my computer and post them up. Coming soon...
The last few days of the trip were the best. Of course being at the Mission was fun, and working there was extremely rewarding. But the last two days of the trip were for resting our blisters and getting pampered a little.
We went to the city of Copan. It is were some famous Mayan ruins are, and they were great! The city had a lot of tourism and we stayed in the most pimp hotel ever! We ate like kings (which of course means lots of meat), walked around, got more little trinkets as gifts, and just relaxed in the tropical pool at our hotel.
All in all it was an adventure. From the crazy landing (the worlds shortest runway, whoa...), to the scorpions, the hard work, the soccer with the kids, to the dance with the women's and childrens shelter. It was very touching. I left a nice little donation, clothes, money, my shoes, sheets, etc. I donated some stuff I will miss a lot, like my Hurley shirt, and my favorite Addidas tennis shoes... but I figure they need it more.
I was also amazed at how much like Bolivia it was down in Honduras. The cities, the streets, the cars, all the same! Honduras did have a lot more American influence though (Wendys, BK, McDs, TCBY Yogurt, and Western Union on ever other corner). The food was very sweet. Even the meat was flavored with sugary sauces.
Ah... I will be day dreaming all week about the trip!
So now I am back. My Albion email had about 195 emails in it (that despite that I stopped all my distribution lists), and my personal email had a little over 220 in it... crazy! SO now some updates...
Formal - we are set! DJ confirmed. Glasses are ready and look hot. Champange is purchased. Programs ready to print. Awards getting finalized. Got a projector and sound system for the presentation. Over 100 people confirmed.
WRGLC - they got the program books to print. Registrations are starting to roll in now. I am collecting all the needed AV requirements, and I am working on the best show ever!
SEMO - got my airplane tickets. Confirmed my speaking times and now just working on the presentation. It is going to be great, they are going to video tape it so I can see myself speak!
OutSight - It was a good month for OutSight Design and Consulting. More work from MMBA, and my new Achive Website looks great and this week I will be adding more interactive features late this week or early next week.
Laptop - the saga of my laptop has gotten worse... for those who have not been following the life of Auto (the name of my laptop) here is a recap. In November I took her in to get the backlighting on my keyboard fixed. Simple cosmetic error I wanted fixed while it was under warrantee. Simple right... well not so much. After the repair she started crashing all the time, locking up, not starting, and just overall running really slow. I took her in again... same problems. So while I was out of the country for a week I figured here they could have it for a week, and finally get it fixed, and get it fixed right. Well, they didn't. When they ran my serial number they saw it was off warantee... which is not true since they worked on it while it was under warantee it extends it by 90 days. I am in my 90 days still... so my poor Auto sat there for 7 days doing nothing! Now they want to start tearing her apart, and I need my computer! I am demanding a loaner machine while they work on her this time... we will see what happens.
AH... okay... deep breath... calm down...
Well I better get to my mountain of work now. Pictures will be coming soon... you know... once I get my computer back...
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