Home For the Weekend

After several busy weeks, I'm actually at home this weekend.

The busy weeks started around Steve's big birthday the end of May - we headed over to Amsterdam and Germany for several days. Interesting how other than a different language, it would seem that we were in just another big US city at times. Although once people heard us, they switched into English as well. It really gave me a sense of how English-centric we are. Others around the world are able to speak 2 or more languages. I know a few basic words in several languages, but couldn't speak it to make a tourist feel comfortable in the US like they do in Europe.

Anyway, by far my favorite part of the trip was our visit to Germany. Germany was absolutely gorgeous. Lots of trees, rolling hills, and green everywhere! Definitely want to go back and spend more than a day and a half in the country. Amsterdam was interesting. We visited a couple of cool museums and did a lot of walking around the city. If I ever figure out how to do a photo album in association with this blog, I'll let you know.

The weekend after Germany was my annual girl's weekend. This time the girls came up here. We did some shopping, had some wine, ate out a few times. All in all, a good time! We've been friends since grade school and middle school. That was quite a number of years ago. :)

After they left I was busy with work getting ready for a conference. I spent 3 and a half days in Dallas for work. It was super hot - mid-90's and lots of humidity (read: Debbie had big hair). It at least felt like summer finally.

Oh, and I started a summer class this week. I'm doing a brilliant job of procrastinating right now and not reading for it.

Speaking of that....off to read "Process Consultation Revisited."