Birthday Flowers (& a balloon)

Finally, pics of my flowers - aren't they pretty!

Happy Birthday to Meeeee!!

Well, coming off a singularly horrid weekend this birthday is going to be pretty mellow. No plans tonight, and tomorrow is just karaoke with work people to say farewell to a few who are leaving.

On an up-note, I got a gorgeous bouquet of roses - all colors - for my birthday (thanks J), along with a happy birthday balloon with a train on it. Pictures will be up tomorrow - didn't bring my connection cord today.

And Sara moves in this weekend (Monday) which gives me enough free time to enjoy it and also clean up a little.

I guess with every bit of bad comes some good.

Farewell Pluto

It looks like all of the science books just went out of date...way to go scientist guys.

Can they really just do that? I mean, Pluto has been a planet for as long as I remember (actually, since it was discovered in 1930). How can they just decide that it's not anymore? So weird. Here's the story at BBC.

Mexico!!

Well, I just found an internet cafe in Guatemala that can read my memory card (I´ve already filled my 1 GB and started on my 2 GB) so they put them on disc for me. Here are a few pictures from my trip so far...

sara & I in chitchen itza - our first ruins and great ones at that!

Local girls in Merida performing traditional dances.

Heidi - a couple of local kids for you. They were asking for pesos and running around the hillside like it was nothing, while we were all out of breath and scared of...

this suspension bridge! It shook a lot, especially when the kids ran across it and around us!

And finally, a kid rowing a ¨boat¨