After 14 hours on travel between Houston, Frankfurt, and Munich, I just got to Trieste, Italy. Home of the...I don't know...the symposium I'm going to attend?
My hotel is the Savoia, right across from the symposium. http://www.starhotels.com/hotel/savoia_excelsior_trieste/starhotels_savoia_excelsior.php?idalb=17 The front desk felt for my lengthy travel so upgraded my room to a suite at no cost with a little living room and a kitchenette and a view of the ocean and the convention center for the symposium, which is just right across the street. Wow, did I pick right? ;) This place is super neat. Nice accomodations for the week.
The super friendly (and pretty, might I add) people of Frankfurt and Munich put a smile on my residually grumpy face since the events of yesterday. And more talking with Paul about how the whole recital planning went made me feel lots better so I'm slowly recovering. It just sucks when my bad choice screws someone I love over. Blah...anyway... thanks to you all for posting and emailing. It really helped since I couldn't tell if I was just being overly sensitive.
Anyway, I'm here for a week and at least the diggs are nice! NASA screwed up my cell phone and never issued an international data useage plan (and hello at $20/MB) I will not be tweeting from my iPhone till they get it right. So I'll tweet when it's free wifi or from my hotel till then.
My presentation is Thursday, just a 10 minute quickie on some of the successful microbial research that's happening on ISS and some of the biotech advances that's come along as well. I'm still creating it: I know what my plans will be tonight :)
Paul said Anna cried her head off last night before bed and at school drop off today. Not indicators she's missing me exactly but indicators she's had too much fun with my mom, my niece, and her friend since last Thursday when we were in Minnesota! The little booger was appropriately spoiled and had loads of fun (even skipped school for Kemah) and now they're gone and she's a little pissed. Vacation over, welcome to reality my little princess. In the meantime Paul will have his hands full till she gets over it but the good news is it's a chance for them to bond with only the two of them there. It will be good.
OK I'm stinky and need to unpack and see what the spa here is good for. Tomorrow starts the real brain work!
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