Saturday, January 26, 2008

January 2008

January 2008

As busy as the holiday season was, this was a very nice way to start off 2008, in a very quiet manner. We had a few things we did this month, and the biggest of those was my trip abroad to Germany.

To help out at work with the accounting software in Germany, I was asked by the IT Director to tag along on his next trip to Germany. We left on Saturday the Jan 12th and came back on Friday the 18th. While we were in Munich, we went into town on 3 separate occasions. One time we walked around town and met the Germany Controller for dinner. We had some good beer, espressos and pork! The 2nd trip into Munich was to the BMW showroom and International Restaurant. We enjoyed the cars and also a nice dinner (duck was excellent). The 3rd trip was the night before we left, and we had a great time! We closed down 2 bars and one of the employees of the Germany office really showed us around and different sites. We stopped by the Hofberhaus, which is a very large tourist attraction, but we didn’t stay long because he wanted to show us some more authentic German breweries and restaurants (don’t forget the Franziskaner!). When we weren’t playing, we were definitely working. We would normally get picked up at around 9am and we would work until maybe 7 or 8pm. I think I helped a great deal when I was over in Germany and maybe it could lead into some more international trips through work.



When I got back, we celebrated my birthday on a few different occasions. We went to dinner with my parents at The Cheesecake Factory and then to Sakura on Monday night with Tom, Tracy and Diane. I received several nice gifts, mostly gift cards to places that I needed to do some shopping! One of the best gifts was a CD from Beth, which was from Bob Seger and had one of my favorite songs “Old Time Rock n’ Roll.” Deb gave me a nice pair of pants and tickets to the Purdue game vs. Iowa. Dad and I went and had a good time.




At the end of the week, we ended up having another surgery for Deb’s hand. The bone was simply not healing with the screw they had in there, so she went it to have it removed and hopefully that will allow the bone to heal. This has been a very tedious and frustrating situation for Deb, but hopefully at the end of the day when it is healed, we realize that there are bigger problems in life and this is one of the many small battles we will have in our lives!

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