The French may steal another one

This is old news. He's 6 and a half now.

Disaster in Amsterdam

My caesar salad had olives in it.

I think I got them out of there before they contaminated the whole thing.

Close call.

The greatest county in an upside down kingdom

Elkhart County

two days, two great deals:

Deal #1: Get Married at the Pizza Depot [only 5 miles from the Wal-Mart Supercenter].

Cost: Only $55, which includes:
Two chiropractic adjustments…Dr Gene Neyhart
Wedding Service…Pastor Gene Hite
Wine…Jesse’s Little Store
Video rental…Millersburg Video
Oil Change…Stickler’s Service Center
Pizza and Pop…Pizza Depot
1 round of Golf for Two…Timber Ridge Golf Course


Deal #2: Obama comes to visit!

Cost: Your county must attain the highest unemployment rate in the USA!
www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-02-08-elkhart_N.htm
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/09/president-obama-no-stranger-to-elkhart
http://gawker.com/5149711/liveblogging-obamas-guilt-trip-to-unemployment-town (one of the commenters appears to be a GC grad, a Mennonite, or at the least an Anabaptist sympathizer).

Don't let this go to your head Elkhart.

I'll have what he's having

Snow way that just happened

So it snowed in London. And everyone cares and it's a huge story and businessmen at the airport giggled at the delays like schoolboys while our flights got delayed and then delayed and then cancelled and then rerouted and arrived 12 hours after we were supposed to be home.

There were lots of snowball fights that escalated and ended in arrests and assaults. The London Underground didn't run (it's underground, as the name implies). No one went to work except for a couple of Americans who had seen snow before. My flatmate got to work to find the elevators out of commission. She walked up 38 flights of stairs; no one else showed up to work.

Really strange how everyone reacted is all. They revelled in it and then just got paralyzed and hopefully tomorrow they'll get on with it. Usually you'd expect Londoners to skip the revelling and paralysis and just get on with it straight away, so I'm slightly disillusioned. Just when I thought I had them figured out...

Frustrating day.

Bon Hiver

I have two new pet peeves:

1. Wearing ski boots.
2. Walking in ski boots.

Apart from those parts, I had a great weekend in Val d'Isere (French Alps) learning how to ski. I was ok. I didn't embarrass myself but I also didn't really put it all together until the last few runs of the 3rd morning (my last day on the slopes). I never imagined I'd be so cautious.

Skiing is just one of those things, like language and swimming, that's good to learn early in life. And so I'm happy to pass blame on to my parents. Then again, we lived in Indiana.

Thankfully it's never too late to learn how to Apreski and I didn't even require a lesson. Same goes with Raclette eating.