The Aggiefamily has returned. We spent a week cruising down the Gulf Coast with Carnival on their ship the Elation. Fine dining and sun filled days was what the doctor ordered and we got it. The food was wonderful and there was a lot of it. There aren't many gourmet restaurants that will let you vary from the standard four course menu and order multiple appetizers, salads, and entrees. I did it and am happy to report I actually lost a little weight...probably from the flights of stairs I climbed all week, to include the ones at the Mayan ruins in Progreso. After much whining and crying, we (I) finally convinced Katie to stick her head in the water with her mask and snorkel on and she picked a fine time to do it too. She saw her first real live stingrays as they swam between Daddy's legs while we snorkeled in Stingray Alley in Belize. You must be wondering about the itching by now. I, with my sweet tasting blood, managed to meet all of the sand fleas (or something like that) in Mexico. I came back with nice welts all over me, some of them on my sunburn too. It's great!! I'll heal in about a week since this isn't Iraq with its super bacterias. Photos will be posted, along with some underwater shots once those get developed and scanned. I haven't forgotten about the remainder of the photos from Iraq and our welcome home ceremony. Those will be posted at around the same time.

By the way, if you haven't noticed, I switched over to the new format. I'm still working out some of the theme bugs. The old Aggiefamily theme I used isn't entirely compatible with this new format so I have some tweaking to do. If you happen to see an annoying dragonfly logo at the bottom right of the site, you're not crazy. I see it too and it is getting on my nerves too. That will disappear once I look at the stylesheet and figure out where it's coming from. If you don't see it, it's because the site won't switch over to the correct theme and you're seeing the improperly formatted Aggiefamily theme. I also added a Google Adsense block. It probably won't earn me anything, but's it actually kind of amusing to see what it digs up as "targeted" ads for my site. I'm easily amused, so sue me.