Our Washington Video

I've finally put together an edit of our trip to Washington DC. The quality on YouTube isn't great and I'll put up a higher qual version shortly for those that care. For some reason YouTube has changed the widescreen format into 4x3 so forgive the slightly squished look, I'll try to fix it in the next day or so. [Updated] fixed the aspect ratio problem, it's now in widescreen so our heads aren't as skinny :-)We've had a fairly busy week, the kids are making sure that they have as many pool parties, sleep overs and play-dates that they can. Summer weather has cooled down some in the last few weeks and we've had mostly cloudy days with only patches of blue. Jo and I are finally organising the girls birthdays, very late but better than never, Abs party is shaping up nicely. I took Cam to see Transformers on the weekend, even his assessment was only 'good' rather than the normal 'awesome!' and I have to agree. Effects were great, story/script was wack, even for a cartoon/toy adaption.

Jo and I have bought new tennis racquets and my game improved slightly on Friday night, until the last match when clearly my racquet let me down [grin]. I'm a little sore and sorry after face/knee planting the fence while attempting a tough shot (Leyton Hewitt hustle-style, sans talent). We are off ten-pin bowling tonight courtesy of a free voucher that I won during an IBM social night. We can take another 12 people with us for 2 hours of bowling and snacks at Lucky Strike, it's a pretty cool place with bar service to the lanes and a DJ spinning tracks. We have our friends Mark and Sue, from South Africa, and Garry and Laura coming with all their kids so we'll have a good time for sure.

I am working on transitioning my work to some other IBM'ers here in preparation for us coming home, so a date is somewhere on the horizon, before Xmas for sure now. But we'll be making the most of our last few months here; hopefully one last Halloween for the kids, maybe one more road-trip and Kent and Aleyx are returning the favour by inviting us to their cottage on Lake Muskoka in August, maybe we'll do some more water skiing. Then we'll be looking forward to returning home to Aus for a second summer, save some water for us willya?

Andy, out.