Scott in Texas for game

I am writing this entry from Killeen, Texas where Gary and I are staying at his siter Sandy's house. We went to the Texas-Arkansas football game in Austin yesterday and while the game was great it was hot and draining being out in that weather. Later today its back to Houston and a flight home tomorrow. Next week Katie is heading home for five days. She is working on her Masters and needs to do a literature review. The libraries on the Island just arent good enough to cover what she needs so she will be going to DFW for three days of research and take the chance to catch up with family as well.

Prayers for our friends in Houston

Ike is the bad dream that wont go away, and now it is growing in size and making a dead beat for Houston. Our thoughts and prayers are with all our friends living in the potentially affected areas, be safe we are praying for you and keeping a good thought in our minds for you. Meanwhile, we encourage anyone who can to donate to the Haitian relief, over 400 people have been killed in that country in the last month by Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike. Though Cayman has been very lucky our neighbors to the north have really taken a pounding and need all the help we can give.

Ike causes Scott's trip to be cancelled

The path of Ike takes it into Texas early Saturday through Austin and perhaps even as far north as DFW as a tropical storm. This has led to the postponement of the Texas-Arkansas football game and consequent postponement of Scott's trip back to Texas to see the game. His birthday present will now have to wait until the 27th when the game is scheduled to be played. Fortunately American Airlines did not charge us a change fee because of the weather so we have moved the reservation and hope nothing messes with that weekend. Hard to believe we dodged three storms down here in a week and a half and then one of them comes back to bite us in the rear.

Ike's glancing effect

Hurricane Ike is passing Grand Cayman about 160 miles to the north and this evening we are getting some high winds and rain but nothing like what could have happened if it had moved further south. The sister islands Cayman Brac and Little Cayman have been battered all day today with tropical storm force winds as they are only about 90 miles from Cuba. Our biggest worry about Ike is that it will mess up the flight plans for this weekend as I head back to Texas to see the Texas-Arkansas football game. The storm could make landfall anywhere from south Texas to Alabama on Saturday and with Houston in the center and where my flight is headed to that could cause some problems.

Today was the first day of the Fall quarter and with over 170 students attending ICCI this fall things were a little crazy. Its amazing to think that when we came here last summer the school had 89 students and now we are pushing close to our 2009 year end goal of 200 students. We should hit that goal early next year and be pushing on from there by year end 09.

Katie is fast and furious into her Masters work for Denver University. Her first on line course is a writing class and her textbooks arrived last Friday, which was good since her first assignment was due today. Over the weekend I got to watch the Texas football game on the internet as both my undergraduate colleges Texas and UTEP played. We had paid extra to get ESPN2 for the express purpose of getting to see that game and then the Caribbean feed didnt have the game. I was not happy to have to watch the game on a tiny computer screen with a very poor quality picture. I was pleased to see Texas win and UTEP put up a good fight so that both schools come out in good shape.

We dont like Ike

As we watch Hurricane Ike work across the Atlantic I came across a great article on storms that I wanted to post a link to for people to read.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080904/us_time/whydisastersaregettingworse;_ylt=AtelBRlbtfS8GgTQ0oJZjSxH2ocA

The fall quarter starts next week and next Friday I head back to Texas to catch my first Longhorn football game in person in two years. Katie has started her Masters work on line through the University of Denver and is already working on her first assignment due on the first day of class next Monday the 8th.