Rogowski Family Adventures

Wow! Can you believe the Christmas season is here already? I can't! I realized that I haven't blogged since well before Halloween. Two holidays have since passed along with a good dose of LIFE in between! After returning from my Mexico trip in early October, Bart and I reconvened here in Florida and settled in for what ended up being 6 weeks or so without travel. As much as I LOVE coming home to California, it's so nice when we don't have to deal with airports for a while. We did, however, take a little road trip down south for Bart's birthday to do some SCUBA diving! I booked us an awesome suite at a fancy little hotel right on the water in Ft. Lauderdale, and we had two days of diving planned.  The first day we did 2 reef dives.  Reef diving in Florida is known as being not that great however, I always enjoy it! You don't get the abundance of life that you get in reefs elsewhere, but the fish you DO see are always so interesting and unlike any other fish I&#

Well, since our return from Europe we haven't had much down time! We always say our house here feels like a vacation home. But the pace we're running at these days, it's actually becoming a vacation home! You may remember that when I returned from Europe, Bart actually flew directly to Sacramento to close out the CRCPL season. He was pretty out of it, as you can imagine, but managed to still compete well and put on a good comp. He and the other guys involved in creating the series have worked really hard this past year to make the series a success, and they've done a great job. I often think back to our very first -ISM comp 2 years ago that Bart and I organized with some help from family and friends. It was a great time, but a total mess! Since he teamed up with the NorCal guys, they've really turned it into something awesome. People come from all over to compete! Great job guys! After Bart returned home we had a couple weeks to regroup. We caught up on work, sp