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I’m a terrible blogger

so I made it one day guys, I’m pathetic here. In my own defense, I have written up about the next 5 days, but I just haven’t had time to piece them together with photos, I still plan on doing just that as Sunday’s give me reprieve, but right now, life provides very little respite from the hours of work.

To satisfy your craving for commentary, I’m linking to Mikale’s blog, she kept a great journal on the trip, and had some funny stories, so if you’re interested, pick up her blog over at http://sunshinenotes-mikale.blogspot.com/ and copy the text to word or something cause her background is impossible to read on She has some great thoughts and commentary though that will give you a great feel for what we had going on over there, and she’s much better looking than I am, so it’s like a double feature.

I got my photos up in albums on facebook if you’d like to take a peek for now, I’ll clean them up and put them elsewhere, but time is getting away from me -

London
Tel Aviv
Galilee
Jerusalem
Bethlahem and Gathsemene
Egypt

Right now it’s snowing about 10cm up here in Canada land. Living up here is a good time actually. I am working every way I know how to get these businesses up and moving and to be honest, they are coming along nicely, it’s just a bit time consuming creating success. Once you have it, it’s easy to get more, but getting the first seed/plant combo to work is a heck of a time. I’ll send out some links of the projects I’ve been on shortly, but sufficesth to say, things are coming along nicely, even if they only come along from 5pm to 3am…. I call that my second shift

The branch is small up here, about 25 people, which is where I shine. So we’ve got plenty of work to do in that area as well, should be a good push for me to make.

Anyway, hope things are going well, sorry for the lazy posting

Thursday, Dec 18th (Day 1) – London

So I flew from Boston to newark to London, barely skirting out before Boston got its first major snow storm of the season and made the all night flight to London. I got in and struggled to manage the monstrosity that is the Heathrow airport, and waited for about 2 hours for Mikale to show up from DC. We ran down to the subway or “Tube”

as it is affectionately known, and converted mass amounts of money for small sums of their currency, then rode to the Belsize stop and walked to the family friend of Mikale and dropped our bags.

After a quick (4 hour) nap I pulled myself up and we went wondering around the city.

We rode down to Trafalger square and were pleasantly surprised to find a huge group of carolers out there putting us in the Christmas spirit.

We then grabbed a quick bite of pizza from a street vendor and walked up to the Queen’s Theater (or Theatre as it were) for the showing of Les Miserables, which I already mentioned, but it was truly amazing. For one who was raised on the music of Les Mis, it was a longtime dream to see that puppy.

It made for a very fulfilling day one of the adventure.

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you, me, and dupree

so as a quick side note, I moved yesterday from the very lovely Boston to the very wintery Toronto. I was sad to leave Boston, I don’t feel like I was able to give it a real chance, and really enjoyed the people I met while I was there. My roomies in particular were great to me, and a lot of fun to hang out with, then trivia night at the local bar with the trivia gang and a frosty root beer, and the church crew etc. Good people out there. Alas, rent surpassed me now that I am without income, so I packed up and moved to Toronto to live and work with my best friend Mifsud. I’ve setup shop in his office and am sleeping in his basement. Kind of a funny situation, but we (his wife, baby, mifsud, and I) laugh about it a lot.

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In the time I’ve been here it’s snowed 8 inches, what am I doing?

Here’s how we’ll do this

So I want to really convey the experience / adventure this trip ended up being for me, and I figure the easiest way to pull this off will be to give you a day by day playback and throw up there obscene amounts of photos in the process. I’ll leave them all small, cause most of them will be cleaned up and put up on doangang.com

So I’m queing them up, one a day or every other day and you can follow what my journey, like Paul,

Enjoy,

well thank goodness, or I will thank goodness personally next time I’m in the area

So just a quick note, I got home from my travels a few days ago and heard about what happened to Jake and Misty. For the readers digest version, BJ (Misty’s dad) had recently picked up a carbon monoxide detector for their new house a few weeks ago, and both surprisingly and luckily jake had it up and running. Luckily cause new years eve misty and the kids had headaches and such and had ended up leaving the house when jake got home from work and the carbon monoxide detector started going off. After firetrucks and artery digging at the emergency room (read doangang.blogspot.com if you want the whole shpeel) they are fine and replaced the stove that was the potential deadly killer.

The thought though, that a family of four as cute as theirs was in that much danger of going to sleep and just not waking up really kind of shook me up a bit. It just makes me a bit more appreciative of how fragile we really are and how carefully we should tread at times. Props to BJ for being the proactive grandpa, and props to jake for not yanking the battery out of that thing and forgetting about it like we’d done with smoke detectors our entire life when they would start going.

In short, love you guys, and am glad your safe and that we’ll all be around for Christmas and New Years next year.