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I'm working on a grant for the National Institutes of Health that is due early next week. Once that's done, it's full-on preparation for our month-long Journey to India. Daisy is doing her Santa impression (making her list, checking it thrice) and we received 4 new pieces of luggage the other day. <br><br>The airline tickets are booked and now we just have to finalize some domestic trips while on the sub-continent.<br>

Exciting times! One more day before the big trip and we are doing out last minute preparations before we go. There are things to be packed though and that will get done tonight and then a little bit more tomorrow. We have an evening flight so we should be pretty well rested and ready to scout about Copenhagen as soon as we get checked into the hotel.<br><br>Stay tuned for more!<br>

Well, everything has been going more than perfect since I wrote the tentative schedule. I was able to break my lease, then before I even asked anyone if they knew of a place I could stay, the Thelen's offered a room at their house. God has worked out everything better than I ever could. Well, I knew it was all going too perfect, I knew Satan was going to try something. He did. The family I am supposed to stay with has not yet got back to ...

... items from Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV). I bought yak traks, which I will be wearing in winter because I hear that Ukrainians do not put salt or sand on the roads so it is difficult to keep footing. <br><br>I'm also working on getting an address book together so I can keep track of people hopefully. It is much tougher than I ...

Thanks to Rob for allowing me to stay in his baller ass apartment situated directly on top of a bar, I got to experience the greatness that is Milwaukee (when the weather is nice). I got to hit up a few brewery tours, some sweet bars (spy bar!), cheap beer wasn't hard to find, finally tried out P90X (ouch) and I even experienced the Blink182 ...

... since being here (including the college where my sister teaches writing). One evening I walked to the local park and heard a concert by the Kiel Municipal Band. What was interesting was hearing the song "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof. I had just spent the day looking at old photo albums that went as far back as 1948 when my mother was about 19 or 20 years old, and then viewed photos ...

... er vergessen hatte) bringen. Bei dieser Gelegenheit gingen wir gleich noch mit Cliff Abendessen... Da wir schonmal in der Gegend waren, liessen wir es uns nicht nehmen das dortige Harley-Davidson Museum zu besuchen, bevor wir weiterreisten. CU Martin &amp; Reto

I arrived at LAX and made my way to my domestic gate where I turned on my cell phone for the first time in a month. I called mom and we talked for almost 2 hours I think and then I had to prepare to board my next flight of 4 hours to Chicago. This flight was an eye opener. All the people that I've met in Australia and New Zealand are so kind and customer oriented it shocked me as I remembered how rude Americans can be ...

... she builds for the feral cats who live in her back yard. Then they took us down to the "Third Ward," the turn of the century manufacturing and warehouse district which now houses the highest concentration of art galleries in the city, as well as antique shops, restaurants, specialty stores, etc. We walked around looked at the old buildings ...