| What's New - May 2005 |
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| May 16, 2005 - nothing too eventful. I was in Oklahoma City last week. The people are very nice but the hotel staff sucks. They don't do well with conventions. oh well. Congratulations to Ron & Laura on their engagement...even though I had to find out from Miles...speaking of whom, Congratulations to Miles & Aya on their baby announcement! Miles is a bit of a punk but at least they have the hope of Aya's good genes. :) I'm off to Italy this tuesday. I'll try to load some photos onto the website for you guys to view!! May 4, 2005 - Busy, busy, busy. it's always a bad idea to go on a vacation prior to an event. This time was no different. Costa Rica was AMAZING!! I can't wait to go back! It's the most beautiful place I've ever been. I'd love to buy property there for retirement!! I went to Finca Valverde in Monteverde. It was a rough & bumpy ride there from the airport. I almost fell off my seat. Soon after we arrived, we had reservations to do the zip line canopy tour. It was called the sky trek tour. I was so scared going up the stairs, but the thrill of being so high above the forest & zipping on wire throughout was incredible!! highly recommended!! The following day we horseback rode & boated to Arenal. That was actually a lot of fun. It was about a 3 hour ride. i was still able to walk after - shocker. We stayed at a hotel called "Arenal Observatory Lodge" in the Smithsonian rooms which faced the Volcano. We were able to watch the volcano erupt all night long. It was incredible!! We were pretty exhausted but we dragged ourselves to an early dinner. Our waiter was a real cutie. He only remembered my name because his girlfriend's name was, "jennifer". As we were leaving the following day, our same cute waiter says, "I don't remember your name(pointing to Christa) or your name (pointing to Erin) but she (pointing at me) is the yenny." We were pretty charmed by that one. We took a shuttle to our next hote, Tabacon Hot Springs & Resort. Our hotels got progressively better each night. This was amazing! SPA services were pretty reasonable considering. As we were on our way back to the hotel this car zooms past us and we hear, "HOLA, YEEEENNNNNNNY!!" it was our waiter from Arenal! Anyhow, i can't wait to go back. Anyone want to join me??? So i've got another new boss. God help me. This one is going to drive me crazy in another kinda way. We're in a meeting (this morning...around 11:00ish) and he's yawning like crazy. Why, you ask? He drives/trains/buses in 2 hours each way. insane. how is this supposed to work. I'm off to Oklahoma City on Sunday...i'll be back next Saturday, then off to Italy on Tuesday. wooo hooo. Happy Cinco de Miles!!! |