Who Can Really Say?

Things are winding down here. It's Friday, time to tie down lose ends at the office and return to the hotel tonight to pack. We get up around 3:00 or 3:30 tomorrow morning, do the final pack, check out and get a ride to the airport. The plane leaves around 7:30 for London, and sometime around 8:30 PM Saturday night we land in Philadelphia. Whew!

Yesterday I took a walk around the campus and over lunch we visited an open market not far from the office in a pretty park like setting.

I've been trying to take this picture for several days now and I've finally decided this is the best I can do -- it's a reflection in the window of one of the buildings.

Here's a stall at the market.

There was a mama dog with two pups lounging in a field in the sun. A young boy walked across the field in the direction of the dogs and one of the puppies took off in a run to greet him, rolling over for the boy to rub his belly. The boy picked up the dog and returned him to the mother. Obviously the boy and the dogs were well known to each other.

Here are two more shots of the market -- all sorts of things were for sale from clothing to furniture to rugs, statues, etc.

Late in the afternoon I climbed the exterior fire stair on the side of the office building to see above and beyond the construction that now blocks the view. The cranes are ubiquitous in Hi-Tech City -- outside the office, the hotel, everywhere. Three years ago you could see clearly across the city from the third floor balcony -- this is taken from seven stories high (almost 100 steps up!).

Turning in the other direction, you can see beyond the city towards the countryside.

And so it goes -- I may have one more update -- we'll see.