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December 2007

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Saturday, December 29, 2007
2:03:00 PM EST
Feeling Happy
Hearing "Snowman" From Englefield's Winterland Symphonic Suite

A Fascinating Christmas!

Good Weather, Family Gathering & Aquarium Visit - A Happy Holiday!

Patricia insisted we stop at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chatanooga enroute to Ohio. We did and it was fabulous! Enjoy the pictures.

After visiting with brother Bob and his lovely wife Ruthie in Springfield, we met daughter Carolyn at the Columbus Airport. Her flight from New York was delayed by weather and arrived three hours late. We didn't mind at all. We shopped and talked, drank cappuccino and browsed throughout the airport until she arrived.

We gathered on Christmas Day at my son Rick's house and opened presents and enjoyed a fine Christmas dinner.

The following day Carolyn, Rick, Patricia and I went to Columbus and visited the Easton Town Center Mall. It was fabulous, big and had every store imaginable. At lunch time we met at the Cheesecake Factory with Olev Viro, conductor of the Greater Columbus Symphony Orchestra and violinist with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Olev and I discussed my symphonies and a myriad of other topics related to classical music. He is a fine fellow with a very promising future.

That evening we met at the Granville Inn in Granville, Ohio with my brother Bill and his beautiful wife Janet along with my daughters Carolyn and Diane and son Rick and his pretty wife Jennifer. Bill reserved a private room for our dinner which was superb and filled with much laughter, mirth, story telling and joy.

Coming home we stopped at a discount mall in S. Carolina where Patricia picked out a new Wearever Pot & Pan set and I selected a new original oil painting for my studio shown above. Also enroute we stopped to visit an International Paper Co. paper mill in Savannah, Ga. I wanted Patricia to see a paper mill in operation. They are huge and unbelievable in size. I worked in NYC with I.P. Co. during the late 1950s.

Liberty was a super good traveler. But I can tell you he was glad to get home. One mile from the house his tail started wagging and he was looking out the windows knowing for sure that we were nearing the end of our journey.

Happy New Year!

Richard