Hello from Flagstaff

Day 2 - Spring Break: We'll go back to day 1 later; there were too many pictures to select from! We spent the night at the historic Weatherford Inn after a pleasant drive from Blue Diamond to Flagstaff. We had lunch at a neat little restaurant that Adam knew about and then hit the shops. The downtown area is delightfully walkable and looks like it has had an EG&G streetscape. It is touristy but not overly, nice shops and galleries, lots of eateries. All in all, a very nice afternoon

Night shot of the historic Weatherford.

It is billed as an "entertainment" hotel. The bar was open on Tuesday night till 2:00 and it was busy till then...the music and bar noise was a not unpleasant sound in our room which was 2 floors above. And the trains rumbled through town throught the night:-)Our room was on the 3rd floor and the lovely balcony was accessed by 2 doors, the one you see and its sister door around the corner, which is where our room is. There was a bar and ballroom (both origional and restored) on the 3rd floor and it would be a great place for a party (max 50). Unfortunately, it was a little too cool to sit outside.

No TV, no phone, but who needs 'em? Some of the rooms had their own bathrooms, but ours did not - again, not for everyone, I guess, but we didn't mind. The radiator heat kicked on during the night and it worked VERY well!!

The room was pretty "rustic" but did the job. After breakfast in the hotel dining room - also origional and restored (mmmmmm, french toast is on the menu) we will continue our trip - about an hour more to the South Rim. Weather report is partly sunny, high 60. Love you all and wish you all were here!

some christmas pix

Since I have another (this makes 4!) snowday, I thought I would post a few pictures from Christmas. It was so much fun to have everyone home. It was the best gift possible.

Love to all of you. Mom

Eleftheria and Ian at work in the kitchen...a little stressful, but the end result was well worth a little stress - a wonderful spinach pie! Ian, don't forget to send me the recipe.

A night out - dinner with the Conley's.

I don't know, Pat....

are they so tall or are we so short?

Can you find yours?

It was just wonderful.

SNOW DAY:-)

Baby, it's cold outside!

This momma eats at the feeder regularly. Your Dad saw a giant crow visit her nest a

couple days ago...probably not a good thing.

Breakfast at Harrington's.

Waiting patiently for a turn.

Do you know these guys? Waiting for Thanksgiving Dinner.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...who is this guy?

It's funny how every year it seems like winter will never come and then all of a sudden it's here.

Don't you just love the red berry pictures?

Thanksgiving on the Homefront!

19 of us were together this year. The weather was reasonable and made travel easy for all. As usual the food was terrific. Hope you all can join us next year.

better late than not at all

I intended to do a much better (ie quicker) job of posting this time, but alas...the pressures of school crashed back much to quickly. Anyway, a couple weekends ago we made a trip to Ithaca for a fall visit with Keith and Sarah. We arrived in time for the tail end of a nor'easter and the waterfalls showed the results when we visited them on Saturday!

It was a beautiful fall day and the siteseeing was great! So many views! So many pictures!!!

We paid a visit to our favorite grocery store and we so happy to see it still in business - as it has been for many years - but we are always amazed. We purchased our usual assortment of things that we can't get anywhere else, including Dad and Nancy's salad dressing.

Keith and Sarah stopped on the trail for a quick picture.

Oh! Did I mention that G'ma H went with us for her first visit? Well, if I had remembered that I needed to put the pictures on in reverse order, we would have started at this end...oh well!

It was a great weekend! The weather was great and we really enjoyed our visit. G'ma has thanked us a thousand times.

This was all supposed to be the same post, but who knows what I did...anyway, here are some really, really old doorways. We talked to Ian this evening, so that sort of got us thinking about our visit.

more from Thessaloniki

Took a tour of my pictures this evening and found a folder that I put together of really cool doorway pictures. I have always loved those doorway poster that you see now and again from major cities. Well, I certainly have enough pictures to make one. This is just a sample and not even necessairly the best...enjoy.