Andrew and Laura Are Here

They have arrived safely and none the worse for wear. Travel from Central America is a piece of cake compared to travel from Africa. They were able to be in 1st class on the long leg due to Andrew's "Elite" status with Continental. Nice.

David arrived here at 5pm, but wouldn't go to the airport with us--"I have to study." Yeah, right. Anyway, the four of them have now gone off to Los Lupes for dinner. I declined.

They really liked Rachel's apartment remodel, esp. the nice paintings that Doro did.

My mom phoned this evening too. She's still in pain from her back. The dr. thinks some of the pain might be due to a tailbone injury more than 50 years ago!

Rachel has signed up for two more sub jobs next Monday and Tuesday. Both are half days only, and at two more new schools. Her third job yesterday didn't go quite as well as the second one, but still it went pretty well, and she is feeling good about the job as a whole. I guess we will just have to see of often she gets called.

David tells us he can't decide whether to join the Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics Department or the Neuroscience Department to do his Ph.D. He has to decide by the end of this semester. The deciding factor could be which department will give him a new laptop.

We have a few things planned for the time Andrew and Laura are here: picking Gary up at DFW tomorrow night and then going out for dinner, a pizza party on Sunday night, and maybe a BBQ at the Lake. They have some shopping to do and on Monday they have an appointment with Immigration and Naturalization Services to maybe start the process of getting Laura a green card.