What a delightful experience I had while visiting the "new" Rotary in the Vail area.  The club was split off from Pantano a year and a half ago and is in the growth mode.  The members are educators, insurance people, an escort officer for international visitors (not how he described it but that's essentially what he is) who works primarily with people from Eastern Europe (Russia) and others that I'm not sure of their occupations.  I will go back next week, it seems to be a great bunch of people.

The District Governor for District 5000 was there.  He's an attorney with a great sense of humor.  He told about how he was supposed to speak at the Pantano Rotary this week and had received a call asking if he could delay his presentation since they had an out of town speaker coming and apologized for the mix-up.  He said he would.  Then he got the newsletter from the club with the storyline that said that "He (District Governor) was supposed to speak but was going to be moved for an interesting speaker."  He, as well as all of us, found that to be really funny!

The girls went to the Theatre workshop today and it sounds like it went pretty well.  They are supposed to call me later and tell me about it.  It should have been an exciting time for them with new experiences and challenges.

The TCIV (Tucson Council for International Visitors) will soon be in possession of my dues.  I look forward to the opportunity to become involved with this world again, I have missed it terribly.  The organization here is different than the one I worked with since it is small, underfunded and so on, but the challenge to get it to be a viable part of the community is really exciting to me.  I certainly have the experience to help get it to its goals so I look forward to it.

We had our carpets cleaned today by Dave's Carpet Cleaning.  A one man operation that did a SUPER job.  He was reasonable, courteous, careful and thorough.  Pretty tough to beat that combination.  If you want your carpets cleaned by a super neat guy his number is 520 (obviously) 745-1530.  He will do your job correctly; at least he sure did a great job at our house!