Last One

So we're back, in the States, happy and just flushing the hell out of the toilets and going to drive thru's for iced coffee and watching the Sox on TV (Hey Mal, I saw them drop the flag at Fenway on the 4th...). There's lots of everything again, back here in the land of plenty. I know people always talk about how hard it is to reacculturate when you get back to the States after time abroad, but I think it's hard not to reacculturate. Hell, I'm reacculturating at the rate of about 5 pounds a week.
Anyway, we had a grand ol' time down there in Guatemala. Our spanish is pretty fluent, ish, and we're hoping to keep it that way by listening to Aventura non-stop. It's working so far. At this point I could easily say something very deep, too, about the suffering down there and the overabundance and greed up here, but I won't. It's good enough just to feel so lucky and blessed by all the riches in my life- my new wife and family and all my friends. And my iPod. We're not going to UC Davis, we're going to UKentucky, and right soon at that. We're packing as I speak (and by we, I mean Mariam). Everything is wonderful, it's wonderful, like that Johnny Mathis song. We're very excited to move to Lexington, Kentucky and start this new chapter in life. To the people we're going to be seeing there, we can't wait to hang out again. To the people we're leaving in Boston, well, we'll see you at Thanksgiving.
Love,
Jake and Mariam