Vacation of a Lifetime

I just got back last week from what can only be described as the vacation of a lifetime.  It’s hard to put your entire life on hold for a few weeks to take a vacation and rarely are people of a normal means able to outlay the money a vacation like this would cost.  However, my wife and I were fortunate to be taking the trip on someone else’s dime.

Last year, my wife Amanda won an award from her work for her outstanding contributions to her company in the area of customer service.  The award was a big deal and only a few are given out each year. As a result the company was willing to pay for an all expense covered “trip of a lifetime.”  Last year we brainstormed for quite a while before deciding on a 12 night cruise that sailed out of Rome and went to major antiquities sites including Rome Italy, Sicily Italy, Athens Greece, Rhodes Greece, Ephesus Turkey, and Alexandria/Cairo Egypt.  Without a reason to do this we would never have made the trip or been able to outlay the cash necessary to go.

I have to say that I am not well traveled, but this was an amazing trip.  We were able to leave my daughter with my wife’s parents so we got to enjoy a lot of alone time which was fantastic because we have not been able to do that much since my daughter was born 16 months ago.

Of all the places we went, my favorite has to have been Egypt since it would be the kind of country that I would be wary of traveling to, but upon visit was really quite nice. We had a great tour guide who took us to all of the major sites in Cairo and helped us to take pictures which in most of our vacations do not usually involve Amanda and me together in the same frame.  This is us standing in front of one of the pyramids.

Anyways, I am finally settling back in and getting back to the grind of work, poker, and family.  It is tough coming back from a world of no responsibilities to one where there is always too much to do.  I am woefully behind on my DTB videos for this month, and apologize for the tardiness in getting them produced as well as my lack of presence on the SNG forum.

I am also continuing work on a poker related project that is likely to become much higher profile than I originally expected.   Also since FTP started the new black card program I realized that it really would benefit me to start grinding again on a daily basis.  Playing at the $24s only means a 25 game/day pace to hit black card which should be easily do able so I think I am going to commit to a 100 day grindathon in the near future.   I also have a new blog series to present that will be coming out soon that relates to some of the previous information I wrote on setting goals.

Good Luck at the Tables!

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