Good Luck?

I just received the following gift from my new sales manager:

Yep. That, my friends, is a lucky golden horseshoe attached to a leather backed frame. On the back it has this explanation:

Sorry for the blurry camera phone shot. It has a bunch of Chinese or Japanese characters followed by this in English:

"This horseshoe is the real one that a race horse had worn in the race track. As you know, there is a saying, "If you find a horseshoe, you will have a good luck." Like the superstition, we hope this genuine horseshoe will give you good luck and make your wish come true."

I am soooo hanging this up in my new museum exhibit office (more on this later)...

3 Days at the Beave

I had a last hurrah at Beaver Creek before I start work on Tuesday. Dave and Michelle (Ab's sister) brought their nephews Kc and Brandon out to Colorado to do some snowboarding. Being from Iowa, I didn't know how good they would be. My feeling was that they would be more on the novice side. Man was I wrong. They took everything I threw at them and more. I even tweaked my knee a bit trying to keep up. Here's some pics and vids of the three days:

I think they'll be back for more....