While there was a part of me that wanted to blog while we were on our vacation, I knew that if I were to sit at a computer for too long, I would start working, which would defeat the whole purpose of being on vacation.  That's the downside to telecommuting.  Even though you are travelling around the country, the Internet makes your work follow you.  But on to bringing you up to speed.  I'll try to go in chronological order, but I make no promises.

We arrived in Austin last Friday around 2:00 pm.  For once, Jamie didn't find anybody on the plane of whom to be suspicious.  Unfortunately, there was a snorer on the row behind us.  It wasn't just a regular, constant snore.  I think the guy was dreaming about being Seabiscuit because of the sporadic sounds coming from behind us.  He was asleep before we even left the gate.  His wife did nothing to stop him.  When we arrived, we didn't have to go through baggage claim, as this was our first attempt at carrying our luggage on the plane, instead of checking it.  Pretty sweet.  We picked up our Pontiac Grand Am that had 63 miles on it, and headed up to Waco.  We stayed with Ben and Jamie Dudley.  That night we went to Baja Burrito, I think it's called.  It's a Freebird's ripoff in the old Cadillac Jack's building downtown Waco.  It was pretty good, but I would rate Chipotle better.

After dinner, we went up to ubc to get a tour of all the new stuff.  The floors are now all stained concrete, and the sanctuary now looks like a finished room.  The pews are gone and the chairs have come.  The upstairs has exploded since I was there.  The amount of equipment up there has easily doubled in size.  They've got a cool new lighting system and a video-editing station up there, plus they've got wireless internet kicking through the building.  This blog may already be getting too long for some of you, so I'll break it up a little bit.