Trip of of Lifetime

Hey Everyone,

We hope that you are having a good week.  This is absolutely the best time of the year for sports in my mind.  The Boys of Summer are heating up for October, the boosters and tailgaters are in full swing on game day Saturdays, and the poverty stricken NFLers are back on Sunday.  Sadly, my Cards are trying to gut it out for the Wild Card and still have some work to do and the Rams and their injury plagued start might already be finished, but there is one bright spot.  My Clemson Tigers are 3-0 after ending Auburn's 17 game winning streak, and they have a huge showdown in Death Valley this weekend against the Seminoles of FSU.  It pains me to say, but Ann's Brewers are a shoe-in for the NL Central Title, and the Pack is off to a nice start.  If I were a betting man though, I would put all of my money on Ann's UW Lacrosse Eagles.  Wow, they are a powerhouse. While we sadly are not getting to see any of this in England, there are some sacrifices worth making, and thank goodness for CNN.SI.  I have been tuning in to a lot of the Rugby World Cup matches, and I am loving that sport more and more every day.  The English Premier League is back in action as well, so that certainly helps to fill some of those US sports gaps.

Tomorrow, we are embarking on an incredible trip.  We are meeting my parents in Istanbul Turkey and spending Thursday through Saturday there.  We are then boarding a large sailboat, capacity for about 150 people, and sailing from Istanbul, porting at 2 Turkish Islands and 3 Greek Islands and then ending in Athens, Greece a week from Saturday.  This trip has been in planning since before we moved to the UK, so we are incredibly excited.  We will certainly have plenty of pictures and hopefully some entertaining stories to share.  We are not back in the UK until the 2nd of October, so please excuse the blog inactivity.

Until we blog again, enjoy the last 2 weeks of September, and when you wake up on Saturday, for the love of God, repeat after me, 1-2-3-4, C-L-E-M-S-O-N, T-I-G-E-R-S, Fight Tigers, Fight Tigers, Fight, Fight, Fight.

Cheers
Kevin and Ann