Goooooaaaaallllll!

Well, the World Cup is in full swing and I did my fair share of watching this past weekend. I saw all or most of every match except one. I watched some great soccer and all my teams (Mexico, USA, and yes, even Germany, Betina) got some big wins.

Hopefully Mexico (my main team) can make it far this year and make a run for the Cup, even if it's not very likely.

Last weekend I was finally able to go down and see my grandparents for the first time in a quite a while. Aurelia got to meet her great grandparents for the first time and she had a great time, although she seems deep in thought in this picture.

I hope to get down there to see them a few more times before the move as I won't be back in town very often.

Speaking of being out, I have decided to burn up some vacation days and started giving myself some three day weekends. I came back to work on Monday to see that someone had made an addition to my list of places that Abu Dhabi was not it.

I made this list in order to help my coworkers understand that I was not going anywhere overtly dangerous. One of my cube-mates was nice (or bored) enough to draw out a little map to really nail down the location, and he did a pretty good job.

So, things are going ok so far and I'm just trying to stay positive and keep chugging along until we make that trip to the desert oasis that is Abu Dhabi.