Marcy took this great closeup of a bee in our backyard

I left town for Shanghai early Tuesday morning, which also happened to be our 14th wedding anniversary. We had our annual China conference and it was a whirlwind trip for me. I arrived on Wednesday night, the conference was Thursday and Friday and then I flew out Saturday lunch time. The conference went well, although it was a bit smaller crowd than last year.

While I was away both kids were sick each taking a day off school. Marcy then felt sick herself so it was a pretty miserable week all around in the Renton house.

Opening the Day 2 Keynote stage in Shanghai

I arrived home on Saturday afternoon and drove straight to Anna’s soccer game. She is playing on a new team this year in a different league and she likes it a lot. She had a really good game and her team drew 3-3. Today, we were all pretty low energy so we rode our bikes to the farmers market, caught some of the DU women’s soccer game (Anna got some free tickets) and then Jude and I watched a bit of football.