so dirk's departure on august 23rd was an eventful one. we managed to lay sod in the backyard, move a gun case to the jacobs house in katy, and sell the big red truck to dirk's cousin all before 3pm. it was bitter sweet saying goodbye to the red beast... nothing but good memories in that truck! it is now off to a better place called uvalde texas.
SEPTEMBER 2008- what a crazy month
so in between dirk leaving and my arrival... there was alot to fill in those 2 months. my last day of work for memorial hermann memorial city hospital where i have worked for more than 4 years, a little storm we called IKE, and renting our townhouse in rice military. thank the lord our house was untouched by ike, except the 5 days without electricity, which was rather eventful with our wonderful neighbors. otto and i were able to ride out the storm with the lewis's, we are thankful to have such good friends right down the street... miss you guys! and our neighbors took care of us every night with food, cocktails, and entertainment. dirk decided to leave the smoker-grill we got from his friends as a wedding present to our neighbor who in turn smoked on it every night during the post hurricane mess. since the hurricane hit the exact weekend that sarah, my friend from florida, was to come. we decided to switch the direction of the tickets and I went to tampa instead for an amazing girls weekend while houston and galveston cleaned up the post storm mess.
september 13th- aftermath of IKE
our street- maxie/birdsall
septmeber 19th- girls weekend in tampa
cheap bar with kristen & sarah
october 6th- otto man has left the country otto flew KLM airlines which was suppose to be the best for flying animals. well... lets just say it better be the best because he was more expensive than a small child would have been... but we love him just the same. lets just hope he makes it there and out of quarantine in one piece. he is going to stay in an air conditioned kennel for 30 days for quarantine... they have very few animal diseases over there... and they would like to keep it that way, i guess. otto was vaccinated for rabies twice and who knows what else.
deer in headlight- is this animal abuse?
october 7th- otto man is in the redlight district of amsterdam after arriving in singapore- already asleep on his pillow
october 8th- otto man makes it to see his daddy in singapore
the quarantine space is really nice. otto has made many friends already... he is a very popular boxer. he found another boxer his same age from san fransisco, his owner was brought here working with Google (aisa headquarters) and it looks like his job hours are even worse than dirk's... working both asia time & california time.
play area
he sits in your lap if he knows you are about to leave- abuse?
october 7th- first tuesday of the month= margaritas
neighborhood night with the best neighbors EVER-pearl bar
october 14th- leaving the states finally
the whole family made it to the airport including james, my brother's roomie. it was all finally done, well most of it, still need to sell my car. but the renters moved into 5722 maxie and were already complaining, most american accounts had been closed, and even last minute insurance issues were straightened out with the help of dirk's dad :)
brother & sister at the airport
october 26th- sentosa for deepavali
monday was a holiday called deepavali which inturn allowed everyone a day off of work.... since dirk and i were unaware of this holiday we did not get to book a vacation in time and all the flights were booked therefore we headed for the next best thing... singaporean beach! sentosa... an island off of Singapore connected by a bridge, cable car ride, and MRT (above ground tram). besides it being crazy busy... we enjoyed ourselves... found some amazing mojitios on the beach and did some great people watching.
sentosa beach
the southern most point of asia
