At Logan airport early on this morning of Jeanine’s 49th birthday the Calabria clan could be found boarding aircraft for three separate destinations. Maya is headed to China where she will spend the next ten days travelling with classmates on a student exchange program. Jeanine is headed to Louisville, Kentucky where she will visit with her niece Erica who just gave birth to her first child and her sister Lauren. Meanwhile, Nicolai and I are headed for Mazatlan, Mexico where he will be competing as a member of the US National Amputee Soccer team. We first made contact with the American Amputee Soccer Association when Nico was 9 hoping that one day he would have an opportunity to play for the US team. When he was offered a provisional spot on the squad a few months ago it was like a dream come true for him. We arrived at about 1PM and met several other players at the airport before being shuttled to the condos that would serve as our base of operations for the next 5 days. Nico wasted little time before touring the beach and relaxing by the pool. We met the coach and other members of the team at an ocean-side restaurant a short walk up the beach and enjoyed fireworks from our balcony before collapsing into our beds totally exhausted.