Where's Waldo err Jason

First off I want to thank Greg Sterling for tending the blog while I was on vacation during the first week in May. Secondly, I want to thank all of you who continued to read my personal thoughts and musings while I was MIA last week. I'm sure all of you have been playing the Where's Waldo game on mshift as of late. But instead of looking for Waldo, everyone's been looking for me. The short of it is I had emergency family matters to attend to. The good news is I'm back and it feels great to resurface and post again.

Vacation In Curacao
As most of you know, I was on vacation with my family in Curacao a couple weeks back. Wow, what a beautiful place. It's part of the ABC islands. Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao make up the ABC islands. I did a lot of snorkeling with my father in law, a lot of much needed bonding with my daughters and even got to go out on a date with my wife one night. Even though the date was just to the resort restaurant and Shannon's steak looked like it had just given up the ghost and hadn't finished bleeding, the time together was great.

We stayed at the Sea Aquarium resort. The resort is right next to this miniature Sea World type facility who's office is housed in an old mine sweeper ship. My oldest daughter Piper loved the sea lions at the Sea Aquarium. Every morning she would wake up and say...

"Do you hear dat daddy?"
and I would say
"Yes, what is is Piper?"
"Sea lions daddy, they're talking to me."

It was probably the funniest conversation I've ever had with her. After I acknowledged the fact that the sea lions were indeed speaking directly to Piper we would walk over to their swimming area and she would say...

"Good morning sea lions, how you doin?"

Needless to say, Piper loved Curacao and still asks me if I hear the sea lions talking to her.

Shannon had a great time as well, even though she didn't get much sleep. She's as tan as ever and more beautiful now than the day we were married. Sometimes I think she belongs in the Caribbean. She loves feeling the stickiness of salt on her skin from spending the day at the beach and flaunts the fact that she doesn't peal after baking in the sun all day. Unlike her husband, your's truly, who's flakier than a Pillsbury Flaky Biscuit. Too bad my daughters inherited my skin.

All in all, vacation was great and it was nice spending time with my girls and with Shannon's parents. I think they really enjoyed spending time with Piper and Finley and hopefully will be willing to do it again some day. Maybe when the girls are a bit older and not in diapers, haha.

Alright, that's all for now. I'm going to talk with some people and try to find the pulse of technology and marketing and I'll be the process as I stumble back into it. Although right now I must admit it's much easier for me to find my way to the beach than it is to find my way to the blogger dashboard. Have no fear, I am back and back for good. No more dry spells on mshift, promise.