Monday, July 18, 2011

Watching the World Cup... Four Years Ago

Watching the Women's World Cup Finals this afternoon, I couldn't help but to think back to four years ago when the tournament was hosted in Shanghai...
We had been living in Shanghai for about three months before Morgan's sister Josie came out to live with us. Josie plays soccer, and as we traveled from the airport back to our place, there were several signs about the World Cup. I asked Josie, "this 'World Cup' is being played here next month, is it a big deal?" She said that it was the biggest deal, but that he hadn't known that the tournament was being played in Shanghai. I said "too bad I didn't know earlier, we could have bought tickets"... not telling her that we had purchased tickets to the several games already... :-)

After a couple of weeks, we broke the news to Josie that we had tickets!
A couple of pictures from the various days we went...

Josie outside of the stadium:

Josie in her Abby Wambach shirt!

A rockin' stadium where we watched the U.S. win the consolation game and where we cheered Germany to victory over Brazil for the championship.

Links to the original blog posts from four years ago can be found clicking here and also here.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Mercury poisoning...

I'm sure I've been sprayed with mercury from thermometers that have been exploding here in southwestern Oklahoma. I've been here for three weeks and the high temps have been over 100 degrees every single day... Today was 24 straight! And unfortunately, no relief in sight:


So what the heck am I doing here in 100+ temps? This is where I'll be for training until October, re-learning how to fly my plane... the KC-135 air refueling tanker.

Morgan and the girls will eventually make their way here before we move to England, but with weather like this, they'll take their time getting here!

No matter the weather on the ground, it's always cool in the air... Really cool!

With traffic jams like this...

... and office views like this:

It's all just a day's work!
NKAWTG... Nobody!