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OK, I admit it. I travelled last weekend too. I just got back yesterday from a work trip to Warsaw, so for the two weeks beforehand, I was highly stressed and swamped with work... (which is why you still haven't gotten that email I owe you, Dan! It's nothing personal - honest!) Anyway, things are calming down now at work, which means I can focus on doing just what I need to do for my PhD and not what all my international colleagues want me to do for their projects.

Here's a glimpse of us in Warsaw:

Here I am with Kane and Donald, two of my colleagues in the lab... or my boys, as I affectionately call them. We didn't really have much time for sightseeing, as we were in meetings all the time, but here we managed to walk down a scenic street on our way to dinner one night.

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Oh, and before going? I managed to squeeze in a 24-hour fun time up in Derbyshire last Saturday/Sunday with some dear Cedarville friends!! It was such an encouragement to be with them. Tricia and Andy were visiting from out of town (out of country!) and Rob and Julie now live in England. (oh boy!) Here we are with Rob and Julie's very cute baby Alyssa. We're visiting Chatsworth, the big fancy house in Derbyshire which was Pemberley in the movie Pride and Prejudice. I can see how it may have been fodder for Ms Austen's imagination...