Monthly Archives: January 2016

Thanksgiving and Christmas 2015

What a wonderful year of travel 2015 has been and we managed to finish it with a bang.  First we rented a large home in North Carolina and gathered our entire family from the corners of the country to spend a week and celebrate Thanksgiving and an early Christmas together.  What fun we had.655

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For Christmas we took a cruise to the Panama Canal with stops in Aruba, Cartagena, Costa Rico, and Grand Caymen.  The ship was decorated for Christmas and we were able to feel all the same Christmas spirit we usually feel at home, frankly without all the work.

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Atrium of Coral Princess

Atrium of Coral Princess

Gates open to allow ship to go into lock

Gates open to allow ship to go into lock

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We even managed to fit in some white water rafting in Costa Rico to keep the adventurers in us going strong.IMG_5613IMG_5620

Looking forward to 2016.

September 28, 2015 Louise Adessa Verfenstein

Today I lost a dear friend.  We’ve been friends since high school; I was part of her wedding party, and baby sat her first child.  We stayed in contact for years and when she and her husband bought a Winter condo in Florida, Jim and I made it a point to see them often.  We traveled to New York several times and they came to our home.  We even took them to St. Kitts, our favorite destination, one year.

I have lost close friends before Louise but none so young and never with the heart break of losing someone so loved.  There never was and will never be another like her with her joy of living, intelligence, and fabulous sense of humor.  Rest well, my friend, in God’s arms.

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