My trip to Europe and Rachelle's trip out of the hospital
This last week has been fairly eventful which was why I didn't write a blog entry. I was in Europe all of last week while Rachelle was, thankfully, coming home from the hospital. Normally, when people think of Europe, they think of old culture, great art, and a lot of interesting things to eat. Last week we my first time to Europe and the only thing I really experienced was the nice (but fairly expensive) things to eat. In the 5 days I was in Europe, I visited Norway, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. Although I am sure that each of those places has some interesting stuff to see, I didn't really get to see any of it because I just didn't have time.
We were shooting video of some of my company's customers that turned out pretty interesting. The problem was that we were either in the hotel room, the customer's building, or the airport. It was funny because I kind of felt like I could have been in any American city except that there were a lot more people smoking. In the meantime, Rachelle was in the hospital really hoping that she would be able to get out of the hospital. I felt really bad when I called her from the St. Paul airport and she indicated that she wasn't sure they were going to let her leave. In the end, however, they did let her leave and she seems to be doing fine now. She is trying to actually follow the doctors orders this time and actually not do things that are not strictly necessary. It is really hard for her because she likes to be busy and really doesn't like others to do stuff for her.
Despite our hurried trip, we did have a few interesting things happen. First, when we were in Belgium on the way to the customer's building, we were stopped by a large group of policemen. The person driving the car was our local sales guy and he seemed to think this wasn't strange. They put something down his gas tank to check what kind of fuel he was using. Apparently, there are two kinds of fuel: one to heat your house and one to run your car. Although these two fuel types are the same, one is colored red and the other is clear. Using the red fuel is bad because it is much less expensive so they want to make sure you are using the white fuel. The police also had him take a breathalyzer test. This was at 8:30 in the morning. Apparently, in Belgium you can frequently find people that are drunk by 8:30 in the morning.
Rachelle and her aunt Jeanie were featured in an article in the Gilbert Community section of the Arizona Republic newspaper last week. With Rachelle pregnant with quintuplets and Jeanie having MS, it makes for a pretty interesting story that I hadn't really considered before. You can view it by going to our home page on wilkinsonquints.org.
At home, I am still dealing with paying the bills, and getting the stuff ready for moving in to our new house. We are still receiving dinners from people and other things that are very nice. The 16 year old young men and young women are planning (weather permitting) to come to our house tomorrow to take care of our yard and vacuum the house which I really appreciate. Riley is doing well with me also. We have been reading Harry Potter and he thinks it is great. I think it is great too because it gives me a good chance to practice a variety of British accents. Also, it is just nice to simply spend some time with my son bonding over broomsticks and magic wands (because I think we are not going to have as much time for that in the future).
We were shooting video of some of my company's customers that turned out pretty interesting. The problem was that we were either in the hotel room, the customer's building, or the airport. It was funny because I kind of felt like I could have been in any American city except that there were a lot more people smoking. In the meantime, Rachelle was in the hospital really hoping that she would be able to get out of the hospital. I felt really bad when I called her from the St. Paul airport and she indicated that she wasn't sure they were going to let her leave. In the end, however, they did let her leave and she seems to be doing fine now. She is trying to actually follow the doctors orders this time and actually not do things that are not strictly necessary. It is really hard for her because she likes to be busy and really doesn't like others to do stuff for her.
Despite our hurried trip, we did have a few interesting things happen. First, when we were in Belgium on the way to the customer's building, we were stopped by a large group of policemen. The person driving the car was our local sales guy and he seemed to think this wasn't strange. They put something down his gas tank to check what kind of fuel he was using. Apparently, there are two kinds of fuel: one to heat your house and one to run your car. Although these two fuel types are the same, one is colored red and the other is clear. Using the red fuel is bad because it is much less expensive so they want to make sure you are using the white fuel. The police also had him take a breathalyzer test. This was at 8:30 in the morning. Apparently, in Belgium you can frequently find people that are drunk by 8:30 in the morning.
Rachelle and her aunt Jeanie were featured in an article in the Gilbert Community section of the Arizona Republic newspaper last week. With Rachelle pregnant with quintuplets and Jeanie having MS, it makes for a pretty interesting story that I hadn't really considered before. You can view it by going to our home page on wilkinsonquints.org.
At home, I am still dealing with paying the bills, and getting the stuff ready for moving in to our new house. We are still receiving dinners from people and other things that are very nice. The 16 year old young men and young women are planning (weather permitting) to come to our house tomorrow to take care of our yard and vacuum the house which I really appreciate. Riley is doing well with me also. We have been reading Harry Potter and he thinks it is great. I think it is great too because it gives me a good chance to practice a variety of British accents. Also, it is just nice to simply spend some time with my son bonding over broomsticks and magic wands (because I think we are not going to have as much time for that in the future).
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