Words cannot express the birthday present I was given today.
I have a dual trip to California coming up in June – first to CalConnect to represent NASA on the standards body board there in Redwood Shores, then WWDC 2009. I combined both trips into one, which left me with an empty weekend.
My wife chose to fill it.
I suppose to she was tipped off by my exploration into the idea of driving out to Las Vegas for the weekend. After I investigated it, it just didn’t seem like a very good idea. The drive from Redwood Shores is about 4.5 hours and I would have had little time to play there in Vegas. My primary objective was to see more Cirque du Soleil shows in their native habitat.
So, she must’ve gotten the idea from there.
She rallied the family together and consequently put together a package for me to fly out of SFO over to Vegas and spend the weekend in Hotel New York New York. Not only that, but she hooked me up with tickets to “O” and “Ka” already. She also contacted a friend of mine to see about landing a ticket to “Mystere.” Absolutely incredible.
Oh yeah… and if you look up pictures for Hotel New York New York, it has a gigantic rollercoaster. Anyone who knows me well will know what I plan on doing with that on that fine Saturday morning 🙂
I cannot thank you enough, taitai… nor my family… for a wonderful present to look forward to in June!