Good to be Home

Thanks to Becky for making this blog. She is good about keeping family connected. As she mentioned, I arrived home last night from Amsterdam, which is troubling because today is fast sunday and right now my stomach clock is on European time and according to its rumbling it is early evening Sunday night already. Oh well, as Becky points out, I am not really "starving to death." I noticed on my passport coming home that I still have Erda penciled in as my home address, which caused me to reflect again on how much we appreciated the Beazer hospitality in allowing us to camp out for the summer while we found a place to land.

I am sure that Grandpa and Grandma Beazer have already been to Amsterdam, but it was my first time. Our company just opened an office there and I interviewed a series of law firms there to help us with some of our legal needs and I attended an international law conference. Amsterdam is full of water canals, bicycles, flowers, cobble-stone paths, and 16th-17th century buildings. Although I was busy, I was able to steal away a few minutes to visit a couple of great art museums -- Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Vameer, etc. They are trying to clean up some of the unsavory parts of Amsterdam, using NYC as a model, and I hope they are successful because the city has enough charm to attract visitors without the garbage.

It is good to be home. Adam pointed out to me that he is half my age for the first and only time unless I live old enough to be 96 (he is 24 and I am 48). I should have pointed out to him that this means that this is the first and mostly likely only time that he will be half as smart as me.

We love you all and wish everyone well!