Continuing from my previous post on Spring/Winter Happenings, here are some more Spring/Winter Happenings:
Meeting President Bush
I had the honor of meeting George W. Bush and his wife when they came to Gabs a few weeks ago. I was part of a small group that had a private informal meet and greet with him that lasted about 30 minutes. I will write a separate blog post about that soon.
Planning Upcoming Vacations
Of course we recently had a very nice trip to Tuli-Block. This was a mini-vacation. We are looking forward to David and Betsy’s trip here in September and October. We are going to have the vacation of a lifetime with David and Maria, and then a week after they leave we will be having another fantastic vacation with Betsy and Mike.
In the past we usually took a nice vacation every year and a super-dooper (expensive) one ever two years. Our vacations in France, Italy, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, etc, fall into this category. This year we are doing two super-dooper vacations in the same month. Why not! We will probably never get back to Africa, and we haven’t seen our kids in 15 months. The trips are mostly planned out and they will go something like this: