Day 2 was somewhat uneventful, though since I was surrounded by mountains and ocean and overall beautiful-ness, I still took a bunch of pictures. We worked the first part of the day, and then headed to the airport to pick up the rest of Agathon Group.  I was like a dog in a car window …

For those of you who don’t know, the company I work for (Agathon Group) made a wonderful and excellent decision to bring all of us out to Hawaii for a work trip and conference.  Since I work from wherever there’s an internet connection, I thought “why on Earth would I go to Hawaii for only …

Well, I realized that I left one photo off from yesterday. Well, last day in Florida.  Luckily our plane doesn’t leave until 7pm, so we actually had a decent amount of time during the day to hang out.  So one thing we did was go to the cemetary to visit my Grandmother’s grave.  The last …

Well since this was our last full day in Florida, we decided we better hit the beach.  So we headed to one of our favorite beaches, and by favorites, I do mean the nearest one: Pine Island. That’s my sister and brother in law on the right there. Those were seagulls that I soon scared …

Well today was fun, primarily because of the Bears improbable come from behind victory against the Broncos.  However, before that we headed out to a park in Zephyr Hills, where every Sunday for apparently the last many many years people come out with instruments and just jam.  Now the song stylings range from folk, to …

[So I’m already back in freezing Chicago, where we just had our first snow, but I wanted to make sure you all heard the last of my Florida trip, so I’ll still retell the last few days] So one little story I realize I never mentioned happened on day 3. Before we took off for …

Not much to mention on this day either.  Went golfing in the morning with my grandfather, my father, and my brother in law.  I don’t think I’ve ever really talked about him before on here, but let me tell you about my grandfather. He is quite the character.  We call him Bomp (though his real …

Well this was Thanksgiving day, so not much to mention here, other than the fact that I ate a lot of food, hung out with some relatives I have not seen in a long time, and watched a lot of football, all in the comfort of high 70s.  It was fantastic. That’s all really.

Well today was a half travel day, in that we needed to drive from Key West to Tampa, which is about an eight hour drive, to return our rental car. It blows my mind to drive 8 hours and still be in the same state. But that would come later, first we decided to head …

The Florida Keys are pretty amazing. Honestly, the temperature and weather is perfect. I would get sick of that after a little while (what’s the fun in perfect weather?), but for now it’s amazing. And I can sum up the attitude of the citizenry with one simple phrase “Yeah sure.” We stayed at my uncle’s …