Happy almost New Years! It’s hard to believe that another year has rolled past. Besides the approaching New Year, Mildred and I have just completed another year of marital bliss. Today is our 35th anniversary. And I don’t want any questions about how many years of marital bliss we had!! 
We had big plans for the day – a nice lunch at Applebee’s followed by a sight-seeing trip up the island to visit some places we’d never been to before. Well, we got half of it done. The lunch at Applebee’s was great. We did have a brief battle across the table with wadded up soft drink straw wrappers, but managed to behave ourselves well enough to not get tossed out. However, just as we got to the restaurant, the rain clouds arrived and looked like they were planning to linger for a while, so we did not go on our sight-seeing trip.
Instead, we stopped at a shop near the cruise ship pier to visit our friend Debi Cowan and Mildred spotted some jade jewelry that our friend sells on behalf of another friend, an islander named Yourgin, who makes the jewelry. So, Mildred got a matching set of jade necklace and earrings for anniversary number 35 and our friends got a little income. (note from Mildred: coral and/or jade are the gifts of choice for the 35th anniversary; both are in abundance here in Roatán.) What did I get? I got a happy wife, and you can’t get anything better than that other than eternal life! I suppose, due to the weather, that we will spend the rest of the day inside and maybe watch a movie, away from the mosquitoes and sand flies.
By the way, our English staff Christmas dinner at the Silseths was a ton of fun. The picture below is one I have already shared on Facebook, but thought that those of you who are not among my many great Facebook friends might want to see what a handsome bunch we all are when we get cleaned up. I also included a shot from today that I took from the ferry dock parking lot. You can see the two cruise ships looming in the distance. They are actually on the other side of the harbor. They dock about a 20 minute drive from our house. And at the same time, there was another cruise ship docked near us in Coxen Hole. So it was quite a tourist day today.
Now I’ll let you listen to the final HRGS Update of 2009. God bless you.
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