White Wolf the World Wide Traveler

Turquoise the Traveling Turtle was playing hide-n-seek at home and apparently he is doing a great job because we can't find him anywhere!

However, that is great news for me because I, the White Wolf, am going to be a World Wide traveler! Daddy is going to Belgium to speak at a Microsoft conference and he chose me to go with him, hoowwwwlllll!

We are now in Atlanta, GA waiting for our long flight to Europe. The trip will be 8 hours and 45 minutes long! That is almost 9 Sesame Streets long! The plane will be traveling 4,413 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. Maybe you can draw a line on the map to follow out progress.

We miss you guys already. Take care of Mommy while we are gone and obey and respect her. Daddy says he loves you all!

Last Leg Home

We are getting on the last plane until we will be home with you all.

Unfortunately you'll all be asleep when we arrive. Daddy and I will probably sleep in some in the morning and then play with you all until lunch-time.

Daddy will need to work after that, but he is very excited to be with you all. He is still feelimg somewhat sick so hopefully the sleep will help him recover.

Huge Hamburger

Jonathan, Daddy, and I met for lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and we ordered a HUGE hamburger (as you can see me sitting on top of the avocado).

We had a great talk over lunch and amazingly Daddy and I were able to eat that whole hamburger. The waitress asked us about dessert, but we were way to full so we declined.

The talks today have been really good. There are only a couple more talks until Daddy and I head to the airport to begin our journey back home.

We are very much looking forward to giving each of you a great big hug and kiss!

Boston at NIght

After the conference we went out to a restaurant and had we enjoyed some Boston Clam Chowder and some Lobster Artichoke dip and chips.

Daddy was excited to see Doug, Jonathan, and Ralph because he doesn't get to see the regularly. He talks to them all the time on the computer, but it was a very special thing to hang out with them in person.

On our walk back home we saw this great big Tyrannosaurus Rex outside a museum and Daddy wanted to take a picture of it. It is sooooooo much bigger than my little turtle self :) I think it's funny how little his arms are compared to his body ha ha ha

Speaking

Today Daddy gave his presentation at the conference. He actually thought he was speaking tomorrow so he was a little nervous and making final changes to the material after breakfast. 

Daddy make some jokes while he was teaching which helped him relax somewhat. The audience seemed to enjoy the talk and several people came up with questions afterwards. 

He is pretty relieved now that the talk is over and he can enjoy the rest of the conference without that over his head. 

I hope you all are doing well. We look forward to being home soon. 

Speaker Dinner

Daddy said it was great to talk to you last night. Although I didn't get to talk to you I was with Daddy at the time.

Right after talking to you we went to the Speaker dinner. This is where all the teachers from the conference eat together. The food was pretty good, but it was a little odd eating soo late ;)

Afterwards we went back to our hotel room and Daddy worked on his slides for his talk. Eventually we both got very tired and just went to sleep.

By the way, the bed in our hotel room is huge! Even though Daddy and I shared the bed there was still plenty of room.

Although he didn't sleep very well. He is still quite sick :(

We miss you all very much and we hope you are enjoying Nana being able to visit while we are away.

All Day Travel

Well, what was supposed to be a half day trip turned into an all day trip.

Our previous flight was running late and we missed our connecting flight to Boston.

I was able to get another ticket for 7:30pm and they put me on stand-by for a couple of other flights. Stand-by is a fancy way to say "Why don't you stand around and see if we have an available seat for you".

After a lot of waiting in the airport, we were able to get a seat on the 5:30pm flight and we are now in Boston!

Above is a picture of all the cabs outside of the airport. A cab is a car that takes you places when you give the driver money.

If all goes well we may still make the special dinner for the speakers (teachers) at the conference.