Euro Trip and Blogging
I just got back a few days ago from a business trip to Europe. I went to meet a whole bunch of different people with a few of my business partners. We were pretty much all over the place in the UK/Ireland area. London, Dublin, Isle of Man, etc. Obviously we met with Pokerstars in Isle of Man, Full Tilt in Dublin and so on. It was a good trip overall although we had to worry about pretty much every flight because of the Iceland volcano. It seemed like we managed to squeeze in flights whenever the airports were open but every flight was uncertain. On the plus side, we got a great view of the volcano on our Dublin-Newark flight on Saturday. I took a couple pictures.
Here’s a close up of the volcano:
I also got a few pictures of the people on the plane, there were a bunch of people in my seat here:
And this is looking back in the plane, you can see everyone looking out the left and tons of people in the aisles:
And here are a few more pics of the area… first, one of a lake:
And second, another one of the volcano, this time with a wing in the picture:
That was probably the highlight of the trip for me. Doing some of the other stuff was pretty cool too. I’d been to Ireland and England before so I guess they were a little less exciting but flying into the Isle of Man was pretty cool. I took a video of it:
We were on a pretty small prop plane on an airline called Aer Arann. I really don’t like those planes because the pressurization is really bad and they tend to give me a headache. Luckily I managed to escape that fate on the IOM flights so I was relieved about that.
All of the other details about the trip are pretty boring to people who don’t work for our company. We spent a lot of time talking about sites like PocketFives and some other projects that we have coming up. We’ll see what happens with the sites — I’m very optimistic that we’ll be able to do deals with at least one of them. I don’t want to say too much because some of them might see this blog at some point and I don’t really know which direction we’ll be heading. Either way, the end result of the trip should be some pretty exciting new things and I hope to see them up and going in a few months.
After I got back from Europe on Saturday, I made an attempt to go to my 10 year high school reunion but it had already basically wrapped up. I got there in the late afternoon and almost everyone had left. I also managed to miss my 5 year college reunion last summer so I’m not doing too well on those recently. I wanted to make it to my high school one but the business trip obviously was a priority and it wasn’t going to work to get back in time. Oh well…
Yesterday I took my mom to the Braves-Phillies game. It was obviously Mother Appreciation Day or whatever at the park. I decided to ball hard on the tickets so we were sitting right behind the Atlanta dugout. Here’s a picture I took of Chase Utley getting a hit in the 1st inning:
And here is a picture of me from the game:
It was a good game — the Phillies won despite Cole Hamels blowing up in the 5th inning. He managed to get out of a pretty bad spot with only giving up 3 runs but the Phillies pulled him after that. He basically totally lost control and started walking guys left and right. But the Phillies managed to pull it out 5-3. I’m not a huge Phillies fan but I definitely like to see them win. My mom had a good time and that was the whole idea so I’m glad we did it.
I head back out to Vegas tomorrow and then on Thursday I get my wisdom teeth pulled. That will make for a fun weekend I’m sure.
** This post has gotten too long already so I’ll address the “blogging” thing in the next one…
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