This has been an emotional week before leaving this year. Cut short the Wisconsin stay to visit some friends in New York prior to the Mediterranean cruise. Sitting at the Milwaukee airport thinking back.
Many great memories to cherish including a nice long chat with mom outside overlooking Lake Wausau, Carly's visit while Austin and Jen took a quick trip to South Carolina, Carly's mock cross country event (wow can that girl run), meal visits with Austin's family and Patricia. We also enjoyed our last Trivia for awhile, lunch with Craig and Don and last night with Dave & Linda. So much more too. The plane came and went so I am finishing this from New York.
The summer has been great even if quick. A little more house hopping than we liked but now we know. One week at a cabin in the northwoods with visits by the kids and even Dave and Linda for an evening. Very tranquil.
So good to see the kids growing into big time adults. Very proud of them for choosing paths they are really passionate about and seeing Carly grow into the teenager she is now and loving to run and still enjoying gymnastics. She already knows more about rocks than I ever will and she really enjoys being part of it all with the rock digs and all that comes with it.
Gloria and the kids organized a 60th party for me that was terrific. So many family and friends came and it was very hot but an amazing time, thanks to everyone again.
We are very excited for what's ahead with all the travels. Even happier now that our friends showed us a local store that will box up whatever you want and ship it to Colombia for a reasonable price, from Wisconsin it is $150 or more. So we lightened or luggage collectively by 34 pounds, they were both maxed at 50 pounds each before. So the tools I collected and her clothing and a few odd and ends are headed south while we can much easier head to Europe, whew!
I am very surprised how easy it is to get around here in New York City, never having been here we both had no idea what to expect, other than it is quite pricey. We did the tourist thing hard for a couple of days and are looking forward to another visit. Glorias' friends have been great hosts and we also had visits with my niece Jess and her boyfriend Seth. Big town so it is nice to know somebody and they were all very generous.
Here's some summer photos
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| Stevens Point Airshow |
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| Manitowoc marina |
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| Mexican with Patricia |
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| Patricia with the late Tino |
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| Early summer visit wit mom |
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| The cousins at the Gausmann reunion |
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| High school classmates gathered at the Concerts on the Square in Wausau |
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| Awesome rock dig in Iowa hunting for geodes |
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| At the 60th party with my love |
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| American Asphalt night at Wausau Woodchucks baseball |
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| Carly's award at YMCA summer camp |
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| Patricia starting therapy for her sprained ankle |
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| Carly fishing for the Carp Classic |
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| Kids up at the cabin |
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| El Capitan |
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| Carly showing of their plate hybiscus |
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| Helping at Wisconsin/Nicaragua warehouse packing day |
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| Trip to Madeline Island with Dave and Linda |
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| Visit with Teds family |
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| Here in New York with Henry and Paty |
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| Water tour around New York |
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| NY skyline |
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| Orlando is where Gloria had her first root beer float |
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| With Gloria's friends Isa and Benjamin with son's family in Orlando |
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| Near Central Park |
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| Central Park performer |
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| Central Park with Paty, Jess, Gloria and Henry |
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
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| Carly's birthday camping party |
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| Trivia with the gang, every Tuesday |
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| Kite fest in Milwaukee |
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| Walking to Kite fest |
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| Fun times with Glenn and Carol in Mississippi |
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| More girl fun at her camping party |
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| Local Mexican festival in Milwaukee |
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| Touring a neat place in Milwaukee, forgot the name |
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| Two pretties at the place I can't remember |
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| Colombia vs Peru at Soldier Field in the Semifinals of the Copa America. Nicer if they would have won. |
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| Golfing in Wi Dells after the reunion |
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| Carly's cabin mates at the YMCA camp |
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| Gloria displaying her collage she made for my party |
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| Austin sharing his love for rocks at the Plover library for the kids |
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| Gloria and Winagi while Patricia was cat watching |
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| Carp Classic antics |
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| Dave helping load shipping containers at the Wi/Nicaragua warehouse |
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| Field of Dreams in Iowa |
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| Cave of the Mounds awesome visit on our way to the Iowa rock dig |
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| Dave and Linda at the cabin |
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| One night with the trivia expert Carly at Trivia |
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| Watching Eagles tribute band "Hotel California" at the Merrill Fair |
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| Kids at the cabin |
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| Girls playing with their jewelry tools at the cabin |
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| Carly rescuing a duck with a broken leg that we took to a rescue center near Antigo |
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| One of the Iowa geodes |
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| Jen and Austin set up for St Points downtown special event |
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| Patricia's new kitty Cusco |
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| Field of Dreams |
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| Carly's first cross country mock event at the finish line after 2.5 miles - wow! |
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| My first attempt at a rock candle, thanks to Austin's equipment and rocks |
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| Here in the Big Apple near the World Trade Center |
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| One of Patricia's cookouts, yummy |
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| My latest visit with mom, great weather and outside visit |
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| Latest dinner with Austin, Jen and Carly, right after her cross country run |
