Feb.10th and 11th

Picking up from arriving in Amsterdam one hour early. Again I need to go to the other end of the terminal. I was unable to see anything outside of the terminal gates but I did see something I thought was interesting. First item was a Casino in the terminal with the baby and kids area beside the casino. I walked around the duty free area which had a shop with video games,movies and huge section of adult movies just like it was nothing. The prices seemed very expense in the duty free shops.

Once I arrived at my gate I knew I was in trouble. It look like 500 people waiting to board a plane that handles 230 people. So I'm the last person to board and I'm in the front of the plane. I look at all the people seated and only two spots are open next to each other. So, I go to my seat assignment and how luck can I be..... My seat is the aisle seat and the next seat is empty and the person on the other side is from India but he is my size. I'm thinking to my self how luck can one person be... If someone had been between us it would be a terrible flight because the arm of my seat will not move to allow more room.

I'm settling in for my flight when the stewardess says here is your seat SIR...... YES..YES.. The third largest guy on the plane is seated next to me. So, I travel the next 4400 miles with an elbow in my kidneys... I must have had to visit the restroom 10 times..... I believe I lost a kidney over IRAN when we hit an air pocket. The other thing that happen as soon as he was seated they delayed the take off for 1 hour because of video problems. I could have lived without the video........

The guys name was BABA and he lives in Chicago and is visiting India for the first time in 10 years. He wants to meet me and take me out for dinner. His best friend owns the largest catering service in Hyderabad.

On the 11th, I slept to around 1 pm and then updated the blog to around 3:00pm. Around 5:00pm Subba and his driver arrived to take me to the grocery store. I bought cleaning supplies, breakfast food, diet cook (LaShawntey tell Rachel I have Diet Coke so everything is alright),beer, and water.

I arrived back to the house and started cleaning the my bathroom. My housekeeper didn't see me cleaning the bathroom because he would have been mad that I didn't ask him to clean the room. I went into the kitchen and started cleaning and he took over until I was satisfied everything was clean. They clean the house but not to my standards.

I showed the housekeeper my family and he things I look like my mother (Thank God). I showed him my house and cars. I thought he was going to pass out.........

I'm just not very comfortable with someone to pick-up after me.

BY THE WAY--- MIKE CRABB----I received an offer on the house on Friday Feb. 10th. DANG IT>>>>