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Jerry, Nancy, and Friend at the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Dear Friends,
Here’s hoping that this missive finds you merry and bright for the holiday season! The year has seen us through in fairly good health, although it’s difficult to look in the mirror and see the gray hairs becoming more and more common. But you are only as young as you feel as they say, so we refuse to grow up!
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As has become our custom, we started 2007 off with our annual New Year’s Eve pajama party with some friends at our home. It’s always a great evening of movies, snacks, and warm pajamas.
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Shortly after that, we headed out to west to Phoenix to see the Ohio State football team play in the BCS National Championship Game. We had great fun on the trip, but alas the football gods were not kind that day as the Buckeyes lost to the Florida Gators. The Ohio State basketball team did quite well this past year, making it to the Final Four and to the NCAA national championship game where the Buckeyes lost to….the Florida Gators. Having not learned our lesson, we’re headed to New Orleans shortly after the coming New Year to see Ohio State play LSU in the Superdome for this year’s BCS National Championship Game. Jerry has never been to New Orleans, and Nancy has only stopped in briefly, so we’re making a week of it and plan to have a good time. |
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Our “big” vacation this year was to Egypt in April. It was our first visit to a predominantly Muslim country, but everything went along swimmingly. We saw the major sites, including the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, as well as Alexandria, Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens, Abu Simbel, Thebes, Edfu, and Karnak. We met with Dr. Zahi Hawass, a preeminent and well-known archeologist; he’s on the History Channel a lot. The trip was also quite relaxing, as a major part of the journey was a cruise down the Nile between some of these historic sites. The features we saw were certainly some of the oldest ever built by man and it’s difficult to conceive that they completed all this in ancient times. Although it wasn’t too hot, there was no question we were in the desert; at one point in the trip, our flight was delayed about six hours due to a sandstorm. Contrary to what some might expect, we didn’t encounter any anti-America hostility. In fact, we got more than a few thumbs-up from the locals, and a few statements of “Americans good, we love Americans!” We did find a huge – huge – security presence, as there were “tourist police” everywhere we looked, and our tour group also got a police escort on occasion. We also took a short ride on a camel, mostly to say we’d done it. The trip was exceptional for another reason as well, as on this trip we set foot on our 7th continent, Africa!
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