By the way, this week while everyone is going back to work from their nice vacations, I am at the AIAA conference in Orlando. I'm staying at the kick ass Marriott World resort, the largest Marriott in the world. It's very cool and I'm learning tons!

It just worker out that the conference ends the day we were planning to fly to Orlando as a family for the Disney Half marathon. So I'll be here already and the rest will join me thurs and we'll be moving to the Disney Wilderness cabins. We loved them last year!

Anna runs her 100m dash on Friday and our Half is Sat morn. I am confident I'll make my best time ever, though it'll show under Carrie's name.

This is our second year doing the Half and Anna's second year doing the 100 m dash.

Last year none of the rides scared her. But this year she might be of that age where she gets scared. Will be interesting to see how she does.

It gets harder to say goodbye to Anna the older she gets! She doesn't cry or anything but she is more aware and misses me more. Last night she called to sing to me :) and asked me to sing to her. And I realize I miss her more the older she gets

We get home from Disney on Wednesday the 13th.