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JULY 2009 CANCUN

2009-08-01T17:40:00.006-04:00

My family and I went to Cancun for a week of Rest and Relaxation. It was the best vacation I have ever had. It was all inclusive, flight, food, tips, cocktails, room service and never ending fun. The seven days went to fast.

We sat in the pool chairs with the jets and drank our Corona's, bloody Mary's, Mud Slides and then we would get out of pool and drink some more. We had 4 pools to choose from and one had a bar in the middle of the pool and you can swim up to the bar and order more drinks. Then walk back to the Activity pool and jump in on the water aerobics class and have such a great time. There are only two rules during aerobics, 1. Smile 2. when ask how we feel we answer Super Sexy! Well after 45 minutes we get in a line and come out of the pool and have 15 minutes of Latin dancing. By then it is time to get fresh drinks. Get the picture? We are having a very relaxing time. I had two full body massages and Leslie had a pedicure and massage.

The kids went snorkeling but I stayed at the resort to make sure I didn't miss any fun at the activity pool, or the lunch buffet, and more mud slides. I made friends with the Director of Entertainment and he adopted my family and my grand daughters were in awe of his talents on stage and the activities in the pool. The youngmen and women work from 8 in the morning until 3am. Then back to the pool at 8am for Yoga classes and stretches and the little Broadway shows at night. One of the Seven restaurants opens at 10pm and closes at 6am. It is a sports bar with sandwiches and drinks so if you can't sleep you can entertain yourself at the sports bar.

June Reunion in Ohio

2009-06-01T19:30:00.002-04:00

Well we are going to Akron, Ohio June 15th to a family reunion. A first family reunion for the Kirby/Davis side. Mom and Dad would be proud that after all these years we are going to get the generations together to meet each other. Since I have never been to a reunion of family I'm not sure what needs to be done. I'm guessing name tags and everyone signing a book to make a list of addresses and e-mail address and cell phone numbers and pictures to place on FaceBook. After the reunion Norma and I are going to Harrisburg, Pa to stop and see friends we met in Bradenton. Looking forward to a great two weeks.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

2009-03-16T16:52:00.002-04:00

Well you would think since I am Scotch/Irish my name would be O'Lalos.
But I married the Greek so once a year I must add the O to my present last name. My heritage is Kirby-Davis-McFaye-Harris. At the moment that is all the farther I have researched, more to come for sure.
So I truly wish each and everyone of you a very special Day on the 17th and drink lots of green beer and eat lots of corn beef and cabbage. Do not forget the potatoes for the Irish in you

Shelby-Gail's Confirmation

2009-03-12T21:16:00.003-04:00

Shelby Gail celebrated her confirmation at St. Peter and Pauls. I am so proud of her making this step into becoming a young woman. The service was so nice and so many others along with her. A total of 65 made their confirmation. She is growing so fast and so beautiful inside and out. She is at a very hard stage in process of becoming a young lady now and leaving childhood. She has so many decisions to make and if she makes a wrong decision she learns from her mistake and grows from the experience. That is how it is suppose to work in life RIGHT? One hopes it does. Her she is with her Aunt Barbara Manson her sponsor.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2009-01-12T16:41:00.004-05:00

Christmas dinner at the Manson's was outstanding. The menu consisted of Crab legs, mussels, clams, Prime rib, Leah's great Greek Salad and the company of family was one of the best presents. Sarah and Shelby are growing so fast as well as all the other grand children.

Christmas Eve at Boo boo's House is a cherished treat that my family has enjoyed for the past twenty years. Her Christmas Tree is like no other. I have never seen a village under the tree as complete as hers. She has different sections of town and hills and ice skating and a business section that is the business section of everyone's memories. She just does the most out standing job. Leslie and Niko came to Florida for Christmas this year and stayed with me.
The kids bought me the WII and we had such fun. My bowling skills are getting better and my golf skills suck. Tennis needs even more work. I have had such fun and Niko is getting so big. He is same height as me and wears a 10 1/2 shoe. He can pass his 10's on to Uncle George.

Three Week Count Down

2008-12-04T21:08:00.003-05:00

I can't believe it is only three weeks to Christmas. It seems like it should only be July 4th, what happened where did the months go????????????

There are things to do places to go, cards to make cookies to bake and eat. Presents to wrap and buy or make. Goodness I better get more organized.

SPA Week-end

2008-11-06T18:28:00.005-05:00

What a great 4 day week-end. My daughters from Ohio and NJ and Fl all were in town to celebrate my baby girl's birthday. I ask Lana to come to town without knowing where we were going and what we were doing. Leah and I drove to Tampa to the Tahitian Inn and Spa on Wednesday October 29 th and checked in. We had Swedish massages at 5pm and at 6pm we felt like JELLO. We went to Chic a flic and had a quick bite and talked about how great the massage was. We then went to TIA to pick up the girls. Lana arrived from Philadelphia at 9 pm so we went into TGI FRIDAY'S for a bite to eat and wait for Leslie and Leanne who were arriving from Atlanta at 11:45.

We went back to the Tahitian Inn and slept. The three girls had their massages at 9am and 10am and then we checked out of the Inn and had brunch in their Cafe. The girl's enjoyed their massages very much. What a way to start a week-end.

We drove to Bradenton and Lana thought we maybe going to another town or east coast, or we might get on another plane and go to Las Vegas. We drove to Bradenton Beach and stayed at the Sand Pebbles. Our apartment/Condo was right on the beach and we walked out in the morning and had our coffee on the beach. I had the best time of my life just relaxing and laughing with the girls. We cooked on the grill and drank, martini's, margirita's, corono's and Michelob's. It took the girl's about 2 days to really wind down and enjoy completely. I had a friend of mine come and give everyone a massage again on Saturday so when Leanne went home Sunday she was relaxed. Leslie went sunday night and Lana Tuesday. All of us voted before they came and I voted on Tuesday AM and I was very impressed with how the results happened and the feelings of the whole world gave me goosebumps. It will be so interesting to see how the next four years unfolds. I feel this is all part of God's plan and it will unfold to everyone's advantage. What a chance to be a part of History. It is very Heartfelt by many.

More Surgeries

2008-10-05T18:07:00.002-04:00

Maybe by the end of October I will have completed all surgeries and can get on with my life in a normal manner. On September 29th, I had the colonoscopy after drinking the nasty stuff all day on Sunday. So I went to the face doctor on Tuesday, for a piece of skin on my cheek just above my jaw bone. It looked like a skin tag. Well he took a piece of it and said return in two days. When I returned he said it was cancer and he would remove all of it. Now as you can see I have this three inch incision with stitches that will be removed in 10 days or actually October 13th. In the process of all this attention to my face I can't get the stitches wet so the Redness is showing on the forehead and the cheeks and nose. I will celebrate at the end of October with my girl's week-end planned to celebrate my baby girl's 40th birthday

WooHoo It's done.

2008-09-13T19:55:00.003-04:00

It has taken months but I have finally finished the surgeries and the healing process is in good motion. I have crystall lens, no caterats, eye lids lifted so I can see, eye brows added and eye liner added. Now I can enjoy reading without glasses and I can leave for work 30 minutes earlier since I don't have to put my best face on because it is already the best it can get. but I have to work on the hair. Now i use the 30 minutes to give the white hair some lift and style.

Eye Surgery

2008-07-18T12:46:00.006-04:00

I went through the altimate surgery with stitches and multi coloring. I have discovered that Purple is not my color, and Red is not my color, So of course yellow with a tinge of green does not work for me either. Keeping your hair away for the surgery and stitches was a challenge also. When I went to the doctor on the third day after surgery, he ask if I had a dog or a cat because there were white hairs stuck to my stitches. No doc, that would be my hair..............Pretty Swollen and purple on the first day. Normal eye lids are 21 cm and mine were 39 cm so it was hampering my eye sight. The second day it starts looking like it is real painful, but actually it is not painful at all. The second day was more purple and the third day more to the red and then yellow is on the fourth day. The stitches come out on July 24Th and I am going to have to do some serious weight loss because the stretching rack I was looking for is not available so I'm on my own will power and watching what and when I eat and more movement. Oh my gosh that sounds so easy but I'm so easily side tracked. Be strong Bonnie it is possible. After all the new thing is 70 today is the new 50, so lets see that makes me 47 instead of 67, yeah that's the ticket, you go girl. By the way these pictures will come in handy for Halloween to scare the goblins. LOL

Recital Time in Bradenton

2008-07-18T12:36:00.003-04:00

Shelby Gail and Sarah Beth worked all year for the big recital and it was the same week-end I had to work and could not go to the recital but they did an outstanding job as always. They make me so proud. They both truly love dancing I always grew up with the same love dancing. Here are the latest pix on them.

Half the Surgery done

2008-06-29T15:43:00.002-04:00

Well 1/2 of the surgery is over and the other 1/2 will be July 14th. When that surgery is over we go two weeks and the final stage will be done and wal-la your beautiful. But I'm still looking for the stretching rack so I can be 6' 5" and my weight will be just right ha ha.

My family is doing well and the weather is Florida like in Ohio and NJ, so they are all in heaven, no school, nice weather and summertime at the shores, bible school and summer camps.

The condo's are so quiet since most of the owners are up north, it is like a ghost town. I keep in contact by e-mail and snail mail. I have made some really nice friends these past two years.

New Jersey Visit

2008-06-12T18:39:00.004-04:00

Her dance Recital in June was so cute. It was on the Boardwalk at the Pavilion with the waves coming in and the smells of the board walk, French Fries, Taffy, Salt Air. I enjoyed it so much. I only stayed three days and had to return to work for Saturday and Sunday.

On May 3rd and again on June 1st I visited my grand daughter Alyssa for her first communion in May. She was beautiful and so sweet. This is in front of their new house in Mamora, New Jersey. The neighborhood is beautiful and their house is so comfortable.

Oh My Goodness I can See !

2008-05-20T18:49:00.004-04:00

I had no idea my cataracts were so bad until I had surgery in the left eye and lens put in to correct my astigmatism from grade school. I never expected to see so well without glasses. I will have the right eye done on May 27th and then I will be free of glasses forever. I may need glasses for the phone book but I will just use google.com My left eye is 20/25 so far but each day since surgery May 8th it is getting better. When the right eye is done it will be amazing I'm sure. Next should be lift eye lids so you can see my new lens and then I have to start wearing makeup or have my eyebrows permanently installed.

I want to make major changes in my everyday life and this is a great beginning, next is the weight. I get so side tracked so easily. I will have to take it a day at a time. Someone suggested a body cleanse of all caffeine, then sugar, then gluten, meats, poultry, fish. Start with 21 days and meditation daily. If I start with caffeine for 21 days then sugar 21 days and so on I guess it will all fall in place. I need to do something to get my body and mind in sink. I'm not a runner, and I have tried walking but I get bored so easily. I joined the gym and have gone to the way side already. I'm hoping the sight will give me incentive to get the rest in order.

The Lalos Girl's

2008-03-24T14:18:00.004-04:00

George and Leanne's daughters are the funniest two little girl's that I have enjoyed so much. I talk with Mackenzie the other day since they have had so much snow. I ask Mackenzie if she built a snowman? She said well we built a "snowdaddy" and we built a "snow family".

Did you take pictures to send yiayia? No... Well can you build another snowdaddy or family and send me a picture? No, that's not going to happen she said, she is done with the snow. They are so ready for Spring in Ohio. Spring without more snow.

Ohio March Blizzard

2008-03-10T16:07:00.002-04:00

This will go down in history as the biggest snow fall for the Akron-Canton-Medina area for years to come. They received 20-24 inches in all three areas. Churches, Malls, Restaurants, everything was closed including gas stations. The roads were at a stand still and the salt and plows could not get out to clear the roads.

Time to clean out your freezer and cook what ever you have available. I so remember the storm of 1979 and 1974 and before that was 1945. So getting heavy blizzard conditions was far and few between, but so easy to remember the fun of being in the warm house and playing board games and drinking hot chocolate with marshmellows.

My Grand Children are so much Fun

2008-03-08T21:27:00.000-05:00

We had such fun on the beach this past December and they were laughing when I told them this is our SNOW and you can make castles with our SNOW.

Well Ohio is under 20 inches of snow and it is continuing until March 9th in the afternoon. They could end up with additional 18 inches. New Jersey is getting continuous rain and flooding. We are getting high winds, and cool temps.

My sister in Ohio sent me pictures of her front yard and porch with the high snows, and she was staying home since all roads, malls, restaurants were closed. I remember a storm in 1974 that was 19 inches, but certainly not 20 and still coming. This will be a record breaking winter for Ohio for sure. My grand kids in Ohio are having the days off school and the fun of sledding, building snowmen and snowball fights, angels in the snow. Oh the memories I have are good and I don't believe I could handle the weather today.

Envolvement

2008-03-07T14:59:00.001-05:00

I have lived here two years, and I'm still working but yet I have become a member of the Board of Directors of the Association. On March 15th I will welcomed at the Vice President of the Board for the next two years. What have I got myself into?

I am a strong believer that to accomplish anything, you must be involved with your surroundings and introduce your self to your neighbors and friends and make a difference in your surroundings. So here I am..........

My children were surprised that I have stepped forward and got involved. Maybe they think I'm living in a retirement building and I should sit back and retire. Not ready for that, I want to have fun and be involved in all that I can while I feel good and able to go and do. There are a lot of my neighbors that are like the energizer bunny and just keep going and going, and they are my inspiration.

Open House

2008-02-24T16:01:00.000-05:00

Had to invite my neighbors to see what all the noise was about. So I introduced the Bayshore on the Lake folks to Greek Food, Scotch Irish style. We have greek meat balls made of ground lamb, kalamata olives, two kinds of greek cheese. Stuffed grape leaves with lamb and rice. Pastiso, a macaroni and cheese with eggs and milk and butter, oh yum. Spinach pie and lots of greek pastries and 4 kinds of cheese cake. A little wine and decaf ice tea or or decaf coffee. The Greek dancer in the middle of table was a gift from my girl friend who had just visited the Greek Glenda at St. Barbara's Church in Sarasota. They celebrate a festival every year the first week of February. It just so happened I chose a Greek theme, because it is food I enjoy serving to friends and family so I wanted to show off my new kitchen with the labors of love from my kitchen.

My open house was a great success

My Baby Sister Came to Visit

2008-01-29T12:33:00.000-05:00

In January while we were still torn up with construction to our much needed kitchen, Betty Llewellyn came from Ohio to visit Norma and me. The end of December is a hard time for Betty since she lost her husband a year ago, so a visit to the sunshine state was a welcome visit for her and for us. She was only able to stay 4 days and poor Norma was sick with a head cold that settled in her chest. We did get to go shopping and breakfast and a lovely dinner at the Outback with the girls I work with, Myra Donnelly and Karen Clerkin. I was able to cook in my almost complete kitchen. I made Clams and Linguine and Salad and fresh fruit with Cointreau drizzled over it.

Betty is very busy in Ohio with Hartville Kitchen's as Banquet Manager and Concert Organizer for Gospel Concerts. Every show is a sell out for the 500 seat room. She is very busy and the trip to Florida was well used and very much enjoyed by her. Betty Lou had to return to Akron and we had to settle into our weight loss program and plenty of exercise. This is a year dedication for me and I will stick with it by golly by gee. My goal is October of 2008 a big change..............

Hey Houston we have a Kitchen !!!!

2008-01-27T16:01:00.000-05:00

The Kitchen is finally complete..............We have counter tops that match the grouting in the floor tile, terracotta, we have a deeper sink and a garbage disposal, a light over the sink. New Refrigerator with French doors and ice maker. A microwave, a flattop stove with self cleaning oven, a warmer tray. The burners on top are six one is a warmer. We added a new counter with storage underneath the counter and cupboards above. At the end is book shelves for recipe books.

I just can't stop saying Nice Kitchen, Nice cupboards, Nice job Brian!!!! my Contractor Guru, Thank You so much for your Beautiful work.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2008-01-01T08:29:00.000-05:00

The Holidays are over but a new year is on the move. The kids came in from Ohio and NJ and we had a great Christmas together. The grandchildren were so much fun and so really funny. We had beautiful sunny weather on the beach and we had pictures taken as a group and by families. Butch's daughter in law Connie was kind enough to take pictures on the beach of all of us and they turned out so great. My family is growing by leaps and bounds. The grand kids are growing like weeds.

Now the new year brings the resolutions that no one likes to keep but again I will make the same resolution to loose weight and be healthier so I can have my picture taken with my kids and grand kids again next year. Lana and Philip could only stay 3 days so hopefully they can spend more time with the family next year. George and Leanne and the girls drove home on Saturday December 29th at 3:30 am and arrived in Ohio at 9:15 pm 18 hours later. Wow! I can't do the straight trough trips anymore. But they wanted to be home in time for NEW YEAR'S, and they did.

We are almost there>

2007-12-18T18:41:00.000-05:00

Today we have a microwave and the kitchen is coming together. The cupboards that were ordered with the counter tops will be here Dec 22ND. We have a new faucet and disposal to be installed and it looks so nice so far. The new faucet will be the high spigot so you put large pans under it.

I will be very hesitant to cook for a while, only because I don't want to dirty the stove and microwave but of course that won't last long.

The blank wall opposite the stove and refridgerator will be for a counter with cupboards and drawers and a shelf at the end for recipe books. There will be cupboards above also so I can empty my pantry in the hallway and use the hallway for linen and things.

And the Remodeling Begins

2007-12-16T18:13:00.000-05:00

The remodeling started as the new appliances arrived. The new Refrigerator is the French door with the freezer on the bottom. The stove is flat top with a warmer drawer, the microwave will go above the stove. We are getting a garbage disposal but we did not order a dishwasher because we did not want to give up cupboard space. The French door refrigerator was anywhere 1/8th of an inch to 3/4 of inch too wide. We thought if we took the molding off it would fit but it was too tight. We could not cut off the counter because we had already ordered the counter tops and door fronts so the only solution was to remove the wall between the kitchen and the dining room. So here we have it.

The stove is beautiful too and here is picture of it. the rest of house has kitchen cupboard contents all through it. The counters don't come in until Dec 22 so we should be done second week of January at the most.

Count Down to Christmas

2007-11-29T06:59:00.000-05:00

So many obligations to attend to, so many things to do, But that is what Christmas is all about ? Wrong.! Christmas is about the birth of Jesus and Good Will to Men. As I get more seasoned in years I realize the more importance of Family and Friends and how you interact with everyone you come in contact with. I so look forward to each day to be able to enjoy the people I come in contact with and reflect at the end of the day on how my interactions were handled. I am so thankful for my accomplishments in Family and Friends and that is my goal to continue to be a good example for my children and theirs. The World today is so dog eat dog and the people are so rude. We must go back to being generous with a smile and nice greeting and stop the road rage, the nasty attitudes and maybe if your kind and friendly others will turn to who they come in contact with and be pleasant and just a little bit nicer. Enjoy the Season and remember the reason of the season. The Lalos Family.

Tis the Season

2007-11-09T09:32:00.000-05:00

Tis the Season to get in gear for the Thanksgiving Bird and family and friends. I get very excited this time of the year to see family and friends and prepare all the good food to sit around the table and laugh and remember all the past holidays and weather conditions, football games from high school tournaments in Ohio on the traditional turkey day against school rivals and the great feast afterwards. My aunt lived in the Garfield school district and we lived in the Kenmore district. And Thanksgiving the same two schools competed for the championship at the Rubber Bowl in the famous Akron Ohio. Now days since all the rubber shops moved production southwest or totally out of the United States most people only remember maybe, the Soap Box Derby championship in August, or maybe the PGA at Firestone Country Club in August and there is always Football Hall of Fame in North Canton, south of Akron or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame north of Akron in Cleveland. The picture is of myself and my older sister Norma, we were clowning around in the drive-way before going to the football game and dinner at Aunt Sarah's in the fall of 1954. Life was so much easier then in comparison to today and the fast pace of hurry, hurry, hurry and push your way to the front no matter who you step on.

Chef Will Menu

2007-10-30T09:13:00.000-04:00

The Iron Chef cook off that Will won was a fund raiser for the Habitat for Humanity and Meals on Wheels.
The ingredients he had to use were Scallops, Prawns, Flat Iron Steak. He made an appetizer of Scallops and the steak was braised and slice thin, fanned in the middle of the plate with prawn and asparagus standing up in the middle with chutney dripped around plate. The dessert was home made ice cream with apples and Carmel sauce.

Will the Iron Chef

2007-10-28T18:51:00.000-04:00

Sunday October 27th 2007

My son in law was one of six Chef's in the Bradenton, Sarasota area that was chosen to participate in the Iron Chef cook off last night in the Ritz hotel in Sarasota. He won hands down. I would of loved to have been there but the tickets were $160 a piece. So I savor the idea I get to eat dinner at his house when ever I want. Someday I will get to watch his own show on TV on the Food NetWork Channel, that's my hopes for him but until then I get to watch him cook on the Sarasota Channel 40 (ABC) on the first Tuesday of the month for 15 minutes. He has the TV personality and I love to watch him.
CONGRATULATIONS WILL, keep up the good cooking.

Tallin Russia

2007-10-26T16:48:00.001-04:00

Here are some pictures of Tallin Russia. The buildings are so impressive and how well they are built. There again the building are hundreds if not thousands of years old.

After dinner on the plane, they gave each person a DVD player and head set and you have about 12 choices of movies and video's. They turn off the lights and gave each person a quart bottle of water, blanket and pillow and the great mask to block out lights and action around you. I choose to sleep and I did. Needless to say the Russian airlines has the right idea of service, Their employees on the plane speak Russian, German, English including the Pilots. The Pilot announces the flight pattern, weather in three languages.
When the sun rose over Ireland and the smell of coffee and breakfast cooking everyone was stretching and out came the hot towels to wipe your face and hands ans the linen was right behind that with several courses of breakfast, wow this is the way to travel for sure.First came the OJ, and individual porcelain salt & Pepper shakers and butter cup full of butter and bread dish with jelly. out comes the macaroni and cheese with pruchetti, fruit cup, cheese, toast, tea with lemon. I did not eat the mac and cheese, but I drank two cups of the most wonderful Russian tea. Now we are 30 minutes from landing in Moscow. Gwen came forward and sat next to me. Just as we exited the plane a wheel chair was brought for Gwen. The wheel chair was dinning room type chair with four wheels, no sides and a high back. I was laughing so hard inside and I told Gwen don't lean to far to the left or right or she would get stepped on. The gentlemen pushing the chair did not speak any English, so the airline pilot told him to take us to the Customs and the VIP room. He certainly did, we got to this flight of steps and he pointed to the top of the flight of which was 26 steps to a landing and 26 more to the next level. On all of these steps people were sitting because there were no benches anywhere in the airport but probably hundreds of Duty Free shops of all kinds. As Gwen started climbing the steps she had to ask people to move, they were just rudely watching her take one step at a time at the hand railing. We got to the top and went right to the VIP room and each had a bottle of water and sat in the most wonderful comfortable leather chairs and waited for our connecting flight in 4 hours.
More to come......................

The Russian Flight

2007-10-25T21:32:00.000-04:00

This is where we met Bella the Russian ticket clerk. She set us up with the seating arrangement from NYC to Russia and on to Frankfort Germany. She said she would have to change our seating arrangement since we have wheelchairs. Gwen told her she ordered a wheel chair at the Frankfurt airport not during the flight so Bella made the necessary arrangements. When we boarded the plane they moved Gwen to seat 4-C because her original seat 1-A was broken. Bella had never mentioned the seat was broken and to look with a naked eye it did not look broken. I offered Gwen my seat, but she went to 4-C. Then Bella showed up to apologize to Gwen and in the mean time a young man in mid twenties sat next me in Gwen's supposedly broken seat. When Bella came forward to exit the plane she spoke Russian to the young man and gave him kisses on both cheeks, the European thing. Then another ticket agent showed up and gave the young man same greeting. So I figured they wanted Gwen's seat for him. When we took off and they started to serve drinks and food his tray was broken, and the seat would not tilt back, so the seat was broken and they moved him further back in first class.

Now begins dinner, Get this they put a white table cloth on each tray. Then the heated cloth to refresh you face and clean your hands. Champagne, two small appetizers, filoh dough filled with a veggie and cheese. Next the salad plate with two different fish sushi, an a deviled egg, a slice of cucumber with a cut of Brie and a cherry tomato on top cut in half. A Caesar salad ,next comes the white linen napkin over your lap. I only ate half of my salad and a good thing because the next course was hot cream of mushroom soup. The main course was salmon, with orkra and rice and a cheese sauce. Now I only ate half I was so full. Here comes dessert, pecan pie with fresh fruit around it. A blueberry, a strawberry, a raspberry repeated around the round pie. A cup of black Russian Coffee and a liquor. That was my first three hours of Russian flight six more to go. All the above served on linen, china, glass glasses. they offer you more liquor of which I declined, I could hardly breathe I was so full.

The pictures attached are of a church 2000 years old. It is just the most beautiful building. The Buildings in Germany are so soundly made the last for thousands of years, not 25 yrs like here in the US.
More to come.................

Germany sights

2007-10-19T13:31:00.000-04:00

Germany was the most beautiful trip for me. I went two years ago but this trip was three weeks and first class on Aeroflot a Russian airlines. Let me tell you all the fun and great times we had.

August 13th, 2007

I arose at 5 am to prepare for the trip to the airport to fly to Germany. I waited until this am to change purses so I knew all was well and where it would be. The stretch Limo with my friend Gwen arrived 7:30 am. My suit case and purse were placed in the trunk and we were off to the airport. The purse I was carrying I borrowed from my daughter Leah that would hold a lap top computer if I wanted to travel with such. I just wanted to put my reading material and listening device and tickets and passport and stuff in one place. This case was so organized with all kinds of pockets I emptied my purse and put all the things I would need in all the proper places I thought. The limo driver drops us off at TIA and the sky caps approach to help with the luggage. I started searching for my passport. The sky cap came up to us, we told him I was searching for passport, so they walked away. I check each and every compartment to no avail. I could not find my ticket or passport so we called the limo driver and she had to pull over to the side of the road and check the trunk, NO it was not in the trunk. I called my sister to see if I left it laying on the table. She said she was going dumpster diving because she had taken the trash out and maybe it fell in the wastebasket before she closed the bag. I was panic stricken and breaking out in a swet and almost in tears, my blood pressure had to be over the top. This very pleasant sky cap came back about three or four times, he said sweetie calm down it must be there. I had emptied the purse out totally and could not find it and I check every area I thought and the gentle skycap came up and said calm down did you check this section and I go ahead I have checked every where, sure enough he put his hand in the section and came out with the passport and ticket. He said see you were too stressed. I gave him the biggest hug and he whisked us off inside and checked our baggage all the way to Frankfort German of which they are only suppose to go as far a New York because we were switching carriers in NY to a Russian Airlines.
Needless to say I gave Brian the biggest hug and a very large tip for all he did over and above his job. If you ever fly Delta out of TIA ask for Brian and tell him Bonnie mentioned his name and tip him good he deserves it.
Well from there we went to the Crown Room and guess what, Bonnie had three Bloody Marys and then we boarded for NYC.

The Pictures at the beginning of the blogg, the first is the town I was living in Hirshorn and the mountain roads we traveled on. More to come.........

A Great Day Off

2007-10-18T09:38:00.001-04:00

Today is a great day Off because I'm done with all my usual clean house and do laundry chores, and now I am learning the process of putting pictures on a CD with music and hopefully I will be able to give these to my kids for Christmas and they will have them to show their kids and maybe their grand kids many years down the road. That has always been in my mind of how my grandparents lived and died but never knew, so now I'm dabbling in research of the past to make those CD's also. This should be very interesting since I still can not get my pictures in the middle of my Blog, it ended up on the side of the Blog that's why I tried a beautiful maple tree in full color, and it did not go where I had planned so I'm still practicing.

Trying to post with picture

2007-10-12T10:55:00.001-04:00

I am still trying to post pictures and I must be the slowest learner in the world. My friend gave me instructions and they were very simple, however I can not find where the picture posted, unless when I finish typing this paragraph the picture with post with this. Soon find out. If it does I will give you a look into Germany from my view.

MY VIRGIN FLIGHT

2007-10-08T19:14:00.000-04:00

My friend Phyllis has convinced me to start a blog and come into the 21st Century. I have just returned from three weeks in Germany and had so much fun and three CD's of pictures to post a couple I will have to get help because I tried and I have no idea where the picture went. So if you talk to one of your friends and they have a picture posted to their blog that they have no idea who it is, it just might be my lost attachment.

My other friend Tufenuf maybe able to help me when she returns home, so until I get much needed help this is my attempt to BLOG. While on vacation I lost 12 lbs and I ate healthy and drank at least two glasses of wine every night and still lost. It was life changing for me so I'm trying to keep up the good work.