kids & travel...

What a mess this morning. We are back to school days in Budapest, meaning the roads are crowded as what seems like half the city is taking their broods by car to school. Its really only about 10%, but BP's tiny roads (two lanes here equal a single lane in a Utah suburb) really make one think that not only is the entire city in their car and on the road, but that Vienna picked up and drove over on a whim as well.

The kids, as expected, had great days. I love that the kids have essentially the same classmates and teachers each year. No adjustment period necessary. Andrew drew first blood on the homework front--he's got five days to write an essay on his Summer Vacation. Natch, he'd like to put it off until the last minute. That ENDS this year--we got him started on it right way.

I picked them all up at 2 and took them home. The joy of working almost 24/7 means having the liberty to sneak away from the office on occasion and pick the kids up. Makes for a nice late afternoon lunch hour.

Tomorrow after dropping hte kids off is is off on a routine jaunt to Zagreb, Croatia for a meeting with my staff out there, as well as a sit-down at the corporate HQ of the regional bank we are trying to take our business over to. Long day tomorrow--out the door at 650 am, back by 9 or 10 at night. Meh. it seems so routine, but man, the Utah equivalent would be heading out early from Nephi for Vegas, pulling in for a two hour meeting followed by a 1 hour staff meeting/lunch, then a straight drive back. Would I be that crazy? Prolly.

Almost had a coronary last night thanks to Delta. Went online to double check our reservations for Hawaii, and naturally, Agi's Skymiles-based reservation had disappeared. It took me over three hours on the phone to fix it. THREE HOURS. All ended well though. By the end, not only was her reservation rebuilt and synched with mine, but we were both upgraded to business and first class for the the flight over. Not bad for three hours of phone hell.

Couple more work emails (that no one will answer, as I just realized that today was LABOR DAY in the US, meaning the office is closed. Congrats to me--just worked a holiday. Again.