An Italian Vineyard In Austin Hill Country??

Yes! We were riding out in the hill country a few weeks back on a winery tour (we wanted to go to 3 new wineries) and we stumbled across this massive Italian villa that had a nice restaurant and also had its own winery. There were some ladies that were drunk and raising hell...they were loud but harmless!!!

Even thou we have had a drought over the past 3 years that has hurt the grape crops, however, the wine was pretty good. We toured the grounds and winery but we did not eat there. Maybe next time.

Waves Right Next to the Hotel

I stayed in a really unique hotel down in Monterey, CA for a couple of days for our company CEO offsite. The name of the hotel is the InterContinental: The Clement Monterey. It is right on the Monterey bay with waves crashing and the seals playing. We had a great time bonding with some of the guys...drinking wine and hanging out.

The meetings were interesting and exposed a number of issues within our management team that I think we can fix...Most of the issues revolved around better communication and visibility into all the other groups.

Snowing in Austin in Late February??

We sure have been having some real weird El Nino weather...Tons of Rain in January and to top it all off, we got like 3 inches of snow. As you can see Hurley sure does not like to walk in the stuff. There was a ton of snow in Dallas...like 12 inches. Kristian and his frat boys created some snowmen and had a huge snowball fight.

Derek is now a Boy Scout!!!

On a freezing cold night down at Mansfield Dam Park a few weeks ago, Derek crossed over from cub scouts to boy scouts. They had hot dogs and some other fire food, but the parents were freezing their butts off!!! They had a couple of scouts dressed in Indian headdresses and outfits. Did I say again that it was like 20 degrees and he wind was blowing out of the North at like 20 miles per hour....

The things we do for our kids.