From Monday April 2

Weekly Blog – from Monday April 2nd. Well hello everyone, By the time you read this it is pretty obvious that Belinda and the kids are back in Australia and catching up with family and friends. It is Saturday night here in Sacramento and it is a little weird to be not sharing Easter with the family – and seeing the boys chase the eggs and the excitement of it all – I hope you have a great time! OK – what a week – Belinda has already written about the Final Four and what a success it was – I have spent the week putting together multimedia presentations for prospective business partners, sponsors and of course – recreation centers and schools to start the program in their places. So – lets re wind and go over the week…. Monday – well – after being delayed several times on the way home from Atlanta – I finally arrived at just after 2am and started home – thankfully! We all got up pretty early and the kids were off to their morning of school – it was perfect – allowed Bel to do final packing and for the 2 of us just to connect and talk before they flew out. I picked the boys up from school around 10am and we spent the next few hours messing around, playing a bit and just hanging out. We had lunch – packed the car and started out for San Francisco – knowing that we were going to be stopping at a few places on the way to get some last minute presents and to break up the journey – considering we would be hitting SF in peak hour!!!! Fun! Well – we stopped a few times as planned – then started for the airport – I buggered up the directions and instead of being at the airport at 6pm for the 9pm flight with no stress – we got there at 7pm – with a lot of stress from the travelers!!!!! All ended up pretty good though as there was literally no one in the check in line – then we had time for something to eat before they headed through security. I lost it and had to leave right away. The trip home was interesting – knowing that the house was going to be empty for the next 3 weeks – weird!!! Got home around 10pm and checked to see the plane had left on time – all was good – so I fell into bed – basically exhausted from the previous 5 days. They got there ok and the stories of surprises – well – I will let Belinda write about those because she was there!!!! My Tuesday was a day of trying to get everything in order of required completion – following up from the Final Four – touching base with people I had met, presentation planning and all the other fun stuff. Well – for the rest of the week – that is all I have been doing – getting up around 7am – having breakfast – then locking myself in the office and doing everything from recording a voiceover soundtrack – the first of many, then editing footage and doing general follow ups throughout the week as they arose. Most days have been finishing around 10pm – I purposely stop for dinner and give my eyes a rest – then will hit the laptop for maybe another hour or so before falling into bed. It is all good because I am getting fantastic clarity of purpose and there is simply no excuse to not get it done – after all – who ever said changing the world was going to be easy!!!! And that’s exactly what I an trying to achieve – especially in the US marketplace – the other question is – right now – what else is there to do? So – lets cut through to Friday night – Paula came over for a couple of drinks as she said she would – so we sat down and did that – I woke up this morning sick as a dog – so I slept most of the morning – I shot over to the Charles’ for Coopers first birthday party – but I simply couldn’t hack it – hot and cold sweats – nausea etc – so I last about 45 minutes before coming home and sleeping for the next 4 hours. Thankfully I woke up much better and had my wife’s beautiful lasagna – or should that be – my beautiful wife’s lasagna??? They both work for me!!! (Miss you honey!) And now I sit here – feeling pretty good – about 9pm pm Sat night – real party animal huh? I hope you all have a wonderful Easter and that the Easter bunny is good for you. It is really weird – for such a religious society that the USA is – Easter is very quiet – go figure!!!! You would think this would be up there with Christmas – kinda doesn’t make sense…. At all!!!!!! OK – I am going to sign off – have a happy and safe Easter – I wish I could be there with my family to share it with you – maybe next year – definitely the year after!!!! Please make sure you contact Belinda to catch up if you haven’t already – she is staying at her mums – if you don’t have the number – shoot me an email and I will get it for you. They leave Australia on Monday April 23rd – I will be waiting at this end with open arms!!!!! From Sunny Sacramento – talk to you next week Bruce