Video of THE Royal in Playa Del Carmen

Video of the Royal Hideaway - Playa del Carmen Riviera Maya Mexico

Making a Prediction

Bottom Three:

Brooke White
Jason Castro
Syesha Mercado (I know she did well tonight, but you know she needs to go...)

Video of the Great Parnassus

New Video of the Valentin Imperial Maya

My video of The Royal Cancun

My new video of Gran Caribe Real, Cancun Mexico

My new video of Gran Porto Real - Playa del Carmen, Mexico

More Pictures

Here are some more pictures of our intersection this morning:





Power lines down everywhere..our power is on right now.

Bad Storms Last Night

This morning at about 3:45am we were awakened to the sound of the Civil Defense sirens. After confirming with the television that there really was reason for concern we woke up the kids and headed to the powder room downstairs (our safe room from tornados). We were in there about 20 minutes until the storm passed.

This morning when we walked the kids to school we found this:


This tree is on the side of campus that borders our home. It is probably about 30 yards from our back fence.

Then when I got to work I found this:


The roof tiles on our roof at the shopping center are scattered all over. The Albertsons shopping center across the street was even worse. They had the street closed in front of it and all of the light poles in the parking lot are on the ground.

There are also about 25 Verizon trucks parked across the street as though they are really busy restoring service. (Our T-1 is fine so our VoIP phone are fine too..I don't know if analog phone service is out in the area.)

God Bless America

I flew down to Mexico from Dallas on Thursday morning. If you've ever been to DFW terminal D, then you know that arriving international passengers go through a glassed in elevated walkway that overlooks the departing passengers in the terminal below.

While I was standing in the gate area waiting to board, a plane full of soldiers arrived from overseas. Almost immediately the applause began. Within a few seconds, everyone in the entire terminal was on their feet, clapping for the arriving soldiers. The applause went on for almost 10 minutes, long enough for the entire planeload of soldiers to go from the airplane into the customs area.

I don't know if that happens every time or not, but it was great to be a part of.