Thursday, January 01, 2009

The Old Year

As this was our first full year in Europe it was fun to look back on all the places we went and things we did. We were away from our friends and family which made all our traveling bittersweet but thanks to everyone that made the long haul over here to stay for free and see bits of Europe...uh, I mean visit us. In all seriousness, we are very thankful to everyone who visited and you are all welcome back in 2009. We started 2008 in Rome, saw the West coast of Ireland, London, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, Loch Ness, Paris, Bordeaux, Barcelona, Bacharach, Kusadasi and Athens. We've decided we better get started this year if it is going to live up to last year so hopefully at the end of the month we'll be visiting Salzburg. Egypt and Maldives are also on the agenda before June.

We visited Dana's family in Minnesota/Wisconsin for an early Christmas. It was nice to spend the time with family. I got some sweet cigar books for Christmas including a diary to record and rate various cigar experiences. I started last night after dinner by smoking a Rocky Patel Sun Grown which was a real treat, and to make it better I rang in the New Year by smoking a Kahlua as my first cigar of 2009. If anyone is planning to come and see us this year and has somewhere they want to go let us know! We are basically living one day at a time with no long term plans, just planning the next trip. We'll see what I have to report a year from now and from where I'll be reporting!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great job on the year in review! I enjoyed watching every second of it ! In fact, I think I'll watch it again......"mom"

Nomosian said...

the best pictures were at the end! I like that Mexico shirt, very nice. You still need to burn the AIG shirt though. How come Poland is not on next year's list?