Life in Philadelphia has been crazy as usual. Bryan and I attended the American Elasmobranch Society meeting in St. Louis, Missouri last week. Bryan gave an excellent talk about his research, and we both spoke to people about possible future research opportunities. Half of the fun for us to attend AES is catching up with old friends. We get to wine and dine with people we only see once a year. I don’t think there was a night we went to bed before 2:00am, and we were the first to retire! It was sad to leave all of our friends but we will see everyone in just a few months at the wedding! The day after we got back my dad flew in for two nights for a work conference. I have to admit our tour guide skills were a bit drained from all the excitement and we settled for a dinner out and a relaxing night on the couch. Although I don’t think my dad minded too much considering he fell asleep sitting up after half an hour!