Its been a while...

And so im back....finally. things are just barely starting to settle down here.....

The grand opening was amazing....like i said before..there was media from 40 different countries covering this event....i was in all kinds of newspapers, on 3 or 4 news channels, and probably some stuff i will never get to see or hear about.....we were also covered, since training in las vegas by national geographic, so coming in early january will be a special on the venetian and the gondoliers....

now since the opening things have been kind of full steam ahead.....we still have plenty of media coverage here....and all kids of celebs have been and will be showing up.....Andre 300 from outkast came over and we got to hang out.....david blaine was seen haning out at the venetian......will smith is coming in a few weeks....black eyed peas will be performing soon..the nba will be here in a few weeks.....and im rockin the court side tickets....

the ride/job itself has been interesting...you really meet some interesting characters from around the world working something like this. now...it has become more of a disneland type of thing/feel......really big with the kids...and not so romantic/authentic. gondola ride in venice type of feel.

Im going to be creating an acount that will have all of my pictures, and ill be bringing my camera along with me where i go. i have been slacking a bit.

we just also got word that we will be moving into apartments within the next 2 weeks, so me and ryan have been doing a little apartment shopping in the mean time. fully furnished pads over here are really not to expensive.

we are opening a new canal within the next 30 days called the Marco Polo canal.....it has this giant chinese boat in it....and is pretty difficult to manuever inside. we are not allowed to go in or take pictures for a while yet, same thing with the casino.

our phase 2 gondoliers came 2 weeks ago and just finished their training. they have now taken overt the outside ride...which is a really cool ride...its all open water...like being on a lake.....and a handful have been able to work with us on the inside....ahh the air conditioned, no humidity inside. for those of us who have been rowing on the inside since day one....are hopefully projected to be moving to the new canal once it opens temporarliy.

everything seems to be going great.....i upload and publish the new site soon.