Esteemed Readers! Winter is upon us. I hope you're all happy and perky despite the miserable weather.
I thought presenting the end of 2010 in numbers would save you some valuable reading time. So here we go, The End of 2010 in Numbers:
Total number of suitcases: 4
Total number of carry-ons: 3
Amount of time it took us to get from Ankara to Iowa (door-to-door): 28 hours
Total distance covered: 6,857 miles or 11,035 km.
Number of connecting flights: 3
Number of friends we bumped into on the flights between Ankara-Munich-Chicago: 2 (see photo below @ Munich airport)
Amount of Euros spent at the Munich Airport's children play area: 12
Chances that the ride is broken and will swallow your precious Euro coins, without giving your kid the 16 second fun he/she wants: 1 in 4
Total time spent at the Munich airport: 4 hours
Number of shovels available at the house in Iowa: 3
Total number of people in the household: 3
Age of the youngest member of the shoveling crew: 4 (see top photo)
Chances that you'll wake up to a loooong day of shoveling in Iowa: 50-50
Number of Norwegian flags hanging in the house in Iowa: 2
Number of American flags: 0
Average age of the next door neighbors: 72
Total number of flags hanging at the door of the neighbor to our left: 4
Number of flags among those 4 that is endorsed by the Tea Party movement: 1
Number of exams graded right before the New Year: 33
Number of papers graded : 84
Number of papers that were plagiarised: 2
Probability of getting a Thomas the Train toy for our son each time we go to a toy store: 1
Number of people who consulted our 4 year old son at Target for their toy purchases right before X-Mas: 3
Number of those who actually chose what he told them to: 2
Number of in person Santa visits for our son in December 2009: 1
Number of in person Santa visits this year: 0
Number of times Santa Skyped our son this year: 1
Number of Bone-in Rib Eye steaks consumed on New Years Eve: 3
Number of adults on the table: 3
Number of booster seats: 1
Glasses of champaign consumed: 2
Happy New Year!
ADDENDUM:
Number of senseless shootings in the US since we got here (aprx. 3 weeks): 2
Number of people dead: 6 (Arizona) + 1 (Nebraska) = 7
Number of injured: 13 + 1 = 14
Age of youngest victim = 9
Number of fundamentalist religious groups planning to protest at the young victim's funeral: 1
Number of state legislations passed in Arizona barring protesters from getting 300 feet of funeral services: 1
