Hope you are having fun. Miss you. Happy Thanksgiving.

Barry, loved your pictures of Egypt. What an incredible experience! I would think after 800 steps up to the Monastery, it was a piece of cake to go back down. You and your family are looking very fit and tanned.... must be from all that walking. I mentioned to Gail M. (former coach) and Jack today you were keeping up with some form of swimming - although Gail didn't think floating in the Dead Sea qualified as 'training.' Looking forward to hearing about your safari.

Happy Thanksgiving Lewis family. Love the story about the camel ride. Scary but kind of funny. Keep safe and keep writing. Love ya lots! Auntie Susie

Thanks for your message, guys. Yes, we are keeping up with your travels. I showed your classmates some of your pictures in Egypt and actually am going to hook up an LCD projector to my computer so we can look at the other ones. What are you missing.....? Not much really. It's cold. We're learning a lot of things, but not nearly as much as you're learning. Mr. Leason still annoys me on a daily basis. Miss Cairo is teaching Grade 3. We've started planning for Quebec (I assume you're still coming). You may want to start selling sea shells to pay for your trip, Connor. All of the grade 7 girls miss Tessa. And, of course, some of the girls and mostly the boys miss Connor (grade 9). I'm getting my surgery in October and will be gone for 6 weeks. We're moving into our new house on Nov 7. So lots of excitement for the Bollings. Mr. Leason got new hardwood, which we've heard about everyday for the last 3 weeks. That's 21 days. Every morning. Other than that, not much new. Oh, yeah, it was actually snowing this morning. Very little but nevertheless snowing. I hope you guys are keeping a journal. Tessa I want you to start journaling because I will take it in for marks. I want you to also try every single obscure and weird food you can get your hands on, so you can tell me about it. Write about stories in every place you visit. Make sure they're entertaining...you know how I get bored when a story is toooooo boring. Make it up, I don't care. Thanks for the postcard by the way and keep on trekking!!! Miss you guys and hope to see new pictures soon. Mrs. Bolling

Dear Lewis Family, I am Angela Cochrane's sister Rosemarie (Margaret teaches with her at Holy Trinity) and we have been following your travels with fascination over the last few months. My daughter Bridget just counted how many locations you have visited so far and came up with 53! We live in Hong Kong and would be delighted if you can join us for dinner at our place if you have time while you are here. We appreciate it will probably be November when you arrive in Asia. Please let us know if this would be convenient and approximate timing. We look forward to meeting all of you. Best wishes, Rosemarie

Happy Birthday Tessa, Love Opa & Oma Meyer, Auntie Mary, Uncle Ron, Caitlin, Jessica & Liana

happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear tessa happy birthday to you!! aren't you glad you are on the other side of the world and don't actually have to listen to me singing. i hope this is an amazing birthday for you. it is certainly set up to be memorable. miss you and love you. happy birthday, sweetie. auntie alison, carm, ashley, david, kelsey and kate

Happy Birthday Tessa, hope it's a good one. Love aunt Arlene and uncle Jack

Happy Birthday to yooouuuu!!!!! We hope you have a great one. Lots of Love, Uncle Nick,Auntie Susie & Julia

HEY, LEWIS FAMILY! Sam Pungor here. So....life's been good. Anyway, I hope you have had an awesome time and I'm not sure what else to say........hmmmm....OH YEAH! Did I forget to mention that grade nine is ultimately AWESOME like I always want to yell...YAY! WOOT WOOT! HOORAY! YIPPEE! HAHA yeahh... anyway, I'm going to a movie tonight with Breanne so I have to go now. BYE!....HEHE love you guys lots BYE!!!!!!!!!!

I've loved seeing/reading about your experiences as you travelled across your first continent. I hope your second continent is every bit as wonderful. Take care, and enjoy. Love - Alida, Jake, Matt and Josh

Hi Barry - Would you be able to redirect your emails to my home email. [email protected]. I love reading about your excursions.