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1967	Chris, Steve and I went to Jerry's to pick up Steve and Mark. Had a tour of the farm and ate lunch. Redwood Falls and while we were looking for Grandpa and Rose's new house we ran into him at Katie's. He gave us a tour of the house. Set up the camp at the farm, Chris and Mark sleeping in the tent and the Steves and I out in the open. We had a walkie talkie and cut in on some guy from Civil Aviation for awhile. When it got dark we went down to the big rocks in the river and had a fireworks display. Worked our way back going through the woods and ended up in a cacti patch.
1980	T - Towns to load trailer with our stuff. Unloaded it at townhouse then over to mom's to get the last of our stuff there. While unloading at the townhouse met Lee Carrington. Returned the trailer and then back to mom's with Big Macs. David went into wrong house, they all look the same. Set up the kitchen table, brought file cabinets up and tried to set up a work corner. Put together the room divider and the entertainment center. At 11:30PM a tornado warning came so we were in the basement for half an hour.
1990	Left Yuma at 9AM, heading out on 95 North. Bought a book on cactii, jewellry, Mexican jumping beans and pewter items at Hardies in Quartzite, AZ. Into California and stopped to explore cactii (photo and video). Joshua Tree National Monument (video). Into Nevada. Sonic drive-in at Henderson for a late lunch. Made Las Vegas and the El Cortez Hotel & Casino at 4:30PM. Even though we were way early Mom was waiting at the front desk. Had a free supper, then worked our way to the elevator, but we weren't moving fast enough, so security kicked us out. Drove (video) over to Circus Circus - boring acts once every hour (video). There was a kids area and had good variety. We split up to meet in 30 minutes, leaving the kids there. Gail and I lost our $10 straight away. Had to wait a further 2 hours until we located mom and forced her to stop (she had won a $640 jackpot). Drove to The Mirage after midnight to look at the royal white tigers. Front desk was about 100 yards long with a floor to ceiling aquarium behind it. Back to El Cortez around 1:30AM.	Hardies staghorn Joshua
1995	White's - They were off to bid on a microwave and ended up buying a box of Hershey's chocolate instead. Couple rubbers of bridge after supper with an acid '94 Corbans Rhine Reisling.
1997	T - Day 43 of our 3 month journey around the world. See 1997 Trip Photo Journal.
2000	deVilliers over and we played Pigmania. Brundell over to talk to them about South Africa.
2002	Up at 10:30AM and was able to send the birthday girl (Patty) off to work. Patty came home with a "German" meal from the Kaiserhoff for me. Went to get photos of Joyce's apartment at Realife - met Rodney, the maintenance man. who was fixing her toilet. Followed by a tour of New Ulm and stopped in to see their trailer home. Cheryl stopped in on her way home from work for a visit. Joyce called. She got food poisoning from the mall Chinese food. Had people from Minnesota look at the house twice, so that sounds good.	Gutzke's Joyce's
2003	emails from "A" - Arlene with more questions organizing her trip to NZ, Angi who is happy at her new job and Audrey who has Outlook problems.
2004	Spent time with Trish over a cup of tea. She had just brought David home from intensive care - had three seizures last week. Billie had attacked cowardly Cuda, so blood all over house. Graeme's to look at photos of his Canadian trip and got a scanner installed so he can email pics back to his son Daniel. Finally made it to Clark's around 9PM to return Alex's computer. Played RnR Trivial Pursuit while enjoying an omlette courtesy of Sandy. Poor Mike couldn't find any Drambuie.
2005	College with Ann and Russell where we joined Ian, Susi (McGuigan 04 Shiraz) and Nick Downes for TP in support of Hockey. Had the lead until the Sports round. Finished 3pts out from 1st. Chose golf balls that I will give to Russell.
2007	Had a soak in the hot tub and sure enough, Francine shows up, just as she did a couple years ago. Cleared Bob's racing books that Mike C may like to have. We got home around 3PM.
2017	Sa - Bora Bora then Stone Age. Mexican supper from Barrio Brothers - I had chicken/jalepino salad and shared great calamari. Istanbul with both expansions then Terraforming with all cards. Gail went to bed and we finished off with Kingdoms. As we watched I explained AFL to David - Swans beat Dockers by 100.
2022	F - Alhambra, Turkish, Wing Span and a couple games of Kingdom Builder. David and I tried Moongha Invaders 2-person version.
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