Still in US

Happy Birthday Drew!!! And anyone else's that I missed in the past few weeks....

Christmas was good, life in the 319 area code this past week is good.... Sarah and I are enjoying time home in the US, with standard stops to Chipotle (yum!), Jimmy Johns (#8 no tomato), and Hardee's Breakfast! Ahhhh the things I miss in Taiwan. Unfortunately it's already Tuesday, and I fly back on Saturday.... so many things to do in that short time!!!

We have a new digital SLR camera now to play with. After many days of online research, I ended up going with the Nikon d60 and it is everything we wanted in an entry-level digital SLR. It's pretty sweet and honestly easy to use. I'll get our pictures of Sarah's cats (there are a LOT of them) up soon. The camera is very quick so it gets the cats at their perfect moments. If any of you have tried taking pictures of cats (or kids) with a standard point-and-click digital camera, you'll know how hard this task is!!! We've been having fun with it and it should provide some better "artistic" shots back in Taiwan and around Asia.

I've been able to get some college football games in while I've been home. This is much appreciated since that was one of the things we really didn't catch while in Taiwan. I would watch some of the Sunday night and Monday night games for the NFL, but not much college football. A nice OT win by Missouri last night to set the Big 12 off at 1-0 so far! And a VERY nice last second field goal by the Vikings to go to the playoffs! Kind of nice to finally go to the playoffs instead of the Chicago team (remember the Twins lost the playoff to the White Sox this past year:( ). We'll see what they can do now that they are there!

Between snow and ice storms, we got some shopping done. Not a ton of things, but with both Sarah and I having new Nintendo DS's, have to pick up some new games;) I love Mario Kart DS - Sarah loves the mini-games on the Super Mario Bros. We also picked up Big Brain Academy which is fun, but sometimes requires too much thinking for a video game. No Wii games this year - I'm still behind on last year's games!!! Nobody sells Game Boy Advanced games anymore..... other than used games (which is ok, but selection is crappy).

Anyway - hope everyone is enjoying the week.... hopefully not a lot of you are working this week or working minimally!