Quick One

Hello, just a quick note from the Emerald Isle. We are back from vacation and I'm busy catching up with work things. Anika is here and will spend the next three weeks here until she goes back to school. Today we went to Phoenix park and came across this herd of deer. They let us get really close, but not so close that we could touch them.
I'll post vacation pictures soon. For being in England and Scotland for two weeks I expected a lot of rain. We had our share, but for the most part, the weather was actually quite nice. At work someone asked me why I would go there for vacation while living in Ireland. I explained that six out of us seven live in sunny places and don't mind some rain during vacation. (Anika, sitting next to me, complains that in the bay area the weather is not always nice and sunny. I think I still rather have that than Ireland ;-)
At the bus station in Edinburgh they have a vending machine that sells umbrellas!