It was quite a year; more travel throughout the year than usual (a good chunk of it unexpected); but all just as nice as can be. Including various doings in the last few weeks. As far as holiday visitors - Kerry had a relatively short holiday visit; but Patrick had a relatively longer one. Still, it all went very (too) quickly. Below are a few photos from end-of-year events.
However: no photos from the clearcut #1 event of the end-of-year cycle: LUIS AND KERRY ARE ENGAGED. This happened at a New Year's Eve party at the Virginia apartment. Luis had called me in the afternoon - guess what, it made me very happy. And having the news also made for a difficult task of keeping quiet for a few hours. Back in Arizona, we had wrapped up a NYE dinner gathering (at Rick & Laura Weis place) and Mary Beth was driving us home (with a detour for Christmas-decoration-viewing) - when PJ's phone rang with the news. The news seemed implausible to her. But she moved quickly from considering it a moderately funny joke, to incredulous, to weeping (with those last two stages merely different forms of "joyous"). Skylar - in her car seat - was a little concerned about the weeping part, but seemed to understand that it was ok; she certainly handled it just fine. It was a great capper to 2015.
The photos:
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| CPG continues working the Suns88 organization; natural-born hams attend fundraiser in November. |
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| Tom Chambers x2 at Suns88 event. |
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Another Star Wars movie was released . . . some attended in costume. Dinner at Solo Trattoria
prior; movie "met expectations"; joined by Trevor and Jessica; a fun evening. |
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POC, NOC, EPG and I attended the Phoenix Chorale's Christmas concert. Program wasn't as much to our liking
as last year, but the performance was their typical high level. For one song they were joined by a group of
high school(?) kids whose sole function was to run their finger around the top of
a half-filled water glass. The effect was amazing. Brophy chapel. |
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| Random encounters at The Parlor. |
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| An evening at Richardson's, per NOC Instagram. |
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| Christmas gathering at MB's. |
