Trip to St. Louis

Andy and Lisa just got stationed at Scott Air Force Base in IL, about 30 min from St. Louis. Since I was in NY when they came to TX last month, I decided to go visit them. The weather was horrible, and I thought I was going to freeze. I'm pretty sure it snowed a little while I was there. We had a lot of fun, though. We went to the Arch (it's not golden, I was sad to find out), but we didn't get to go up the Arch, since we got there pretty late. We also went to Blueberry Hill, a restaurant that had a lot of cool stuff. I also go to see Baxter, one of my most favorite dogs, ever. He loves his green monkey!

Trip to NY

On my last trip to New York in March, I decided to go to a couple of places I'd never been, since it was probably my last free trip! Plus, I had to be there over my birthday, so I decided to give myself a birthday present to see Wicked on Broadway. The show was AMAZING! I completely loved it, and it was totally worth the money paid for the tickets.

A few days later, I went to the American Museum of Natural History, featured in Night at the Museum. It was a lot of fun to see some of the same things that were in the movie. The best part was when I went into the Pacific Peoples hall and heard a bunch of kids say, "Gum, Gum! Can we give him some gum?!" I wonder if they had to add a special security guard since the movie came out to keep kids from sticking gum on the statue.

I also went to the Arch at Washington Square Park. The arch is in a bunch of movies, as well, but they were doing construction and had it blocked off, so I couldn't get too close. I'm still sad I didn't see the Brooklyn Bridge, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but I guess I can do those things when I go again.

Free Trip!!!

At work they had two free tickets to the Capital One Bowl in Orlando, Fl on Jan. 1st. They decided to do a drawing with the people in our Support group. Only 6 people put their names in for the drawing, but I was pretty sure I wasn't going to win because I don't really win stuff like that. Anyway, they drew a name out of the bucket, and then our Sr Director said, "Okay, before you read the name, let's see who didn't win!" They proceeded to draw names out one at a time from the group that didn't win. When it was down to three people, I was still in the running, but so was a coworker from FL who said, "If I don't win this trip, I'm not going to see my family for the holidays." It was kind of sad, because her name was drawn next. Then it was down to me and one other person. They switched to read the original name of the person who won the trip, and it was me!!!! I was so excited! The trip included tickets to the game, free airfare, hotel, car rental, and food; basically an all-expense paid trip!

The game was awesome, and our seats were incredible! I discovered a recent love for college football, and two great teams played in this game, Florida and Michigan. We didn't really care who we cheered for, so we chose Michigan because they had better colors (I DO NOT look good in bright orange). It was so crazy with SO many Florida fans, but Michigan ended up winning, and it was a lot of fun.

It's been forever!

It's been FOREVER since I posted anything, and a lot of fun things have happened, so I'm just going to put a ton of posts on here at once. Probably the biggest thing that happened since my last post, is that I changed jobs. I'm still working for the same company, in the same department, but I have a different manager and I'm now a Process Manager. Basically, when we want to change how we do something, or start doing something new, it's my job to figure out how we're going to do it. I like telling other people what to do, so it's a great job for me. I'm going to try and do better with keeping up with my blog so I don't have to do 10 posts at a time!