Height: 2'10'', Occupation: Baby

We have an opportunity to go to Italy at the end of next month for a meeting of Cassini scientists. I'll be in meetings during the weekdays, while Laura and Samuel tool around Florence on their own, and then we'll have some time all together as well. The location simply reflects the considerable European participation in the Cassini mission, but we're sure not complaining. Of course, these plans require us to apply for a passport for Samuel, which we did last week. We had a lot of fun doing our own mug shots; we ended up using the one in the middle.

Here are the new Samuel pictures. We fly out to California on Friday to spend time with the fams and attend Shane's wedding. We look forward to seeing many of you!

P.S.: A new design template for this site was really necessary, because the green-and-orange original was so old that it was not compatible with Blogger's commenting system. I'll be tinkering with it some more, so hopefully it'll look better in the future. In other happy news, Squawkbox had mercy on me and re-activated my account for 7 days so that I can transfer all of the comments from a year and a half of blogging over to Blogger. I've made a start on that already. 

Posted by Matt on 1/05/2005 11:35:00 PM