Dear Colleagues, friends, and Lactnet moms.

I will soon be signing off for at least 3 weeks while I travel to Australia
for a series of lectures in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and
Brisbane.  I know... this is a tough life, traveling all over just telling
stories,  but someone has to do it.    These lectures are being sponsored by
Jan Cornfoot with Capers Bookstores.

One of the most wonderful things about traveling to new countries is meeting
the people, so I hope that you Aussies will show up and come meet me,
otherwise I will be lonely and my ego bruised (I promise to not speak of the
America's Cup thing)!!!!  I understand they still have room for more at
these conferences.  A bunch of really important speakers are going as well,
Gay Palmer, Larry Gartner, and James McKenna.   I was sort of an
afterthough,  as my major task thus far is to carry the luggage from place
to place. I have been practicing a bunch,  so that I won't drop Larry or
Gay's as they might get angry with me.  I just remembered, they didn't
mention tips????

Although I will still be reading my email from time to time,  I'll probably
ignore most of them,  as I will be chasing roos (kangaroos for us yanks)
trying to get milk samples,   and trying to understand these Australian
idioms,  such as "Take the key out of the lock" which means in American,
"kicking the bucket".    Where do these Aussies get such expressions !!!

I'm just joking guys,  I just can't wait to get out of this Texas heat and
into some nice snow and meet some sweet Australian LCs.

So, until mid August...

Tom Hale
Certified Luggage Handler
Trainee, Medela Bra Fitter

PS:  Watch for the guy with the luggage.