We arrived at Red Beach after 30 hours in transit from Hudson, NH to Auckland, New Zealand and then a 40 minute drive. We left home on New Year's Day and arrived in NZ on Jan. 3rd. Amazingly, Buzz was not tired, and seemed very alert on the drive. The GPS that our clever IT savvy son-in-law, Jon, downloaded to the Garmin worked perfectly, and we arrived to a wonderfuly warm welcome from Jim & Helen. Two years melted away as we caught up on family news. They w...

A disclaimer: I am writing this blog ffrom my new iPad. I am not sure that pictures will accompany the entries, but I am trying to figure that out. I will post photos on facebook from time to time. We have had a wonderful week in Israel with our beautiful little girls. It was a week of family time without much in the way of sight seeing. We did, of course, visit the Machane Yehudah shouk and the Old City. I had never been to the Kotel (Western Wall) at night bef...

Auto created entry due to mobile update. I am just getting familiar with the process of getting photos from my iPad to the blog site. It requires some strategy, and I am not sure if I will be able to load more than one per entry. I will post photos to my facebook page as we travel, and you can look fior them there. Eachh time I think I am finished with this entry, the site prompts me to write more in order to get the photo into the entry...it is like being in s...

Auto created entry due to mobile update.I am just getting familiar with the process of getting photos from my iPad to the blog site. It requires some strategy, and I am not sure if I will be able to load more than one per entry. I will post photos to my facebook page as we travel, and you can look fior them there.Eachh time I think I am finished with this entry, the site prompts me to write more in order to get the photo into the entry...it is like being in sch...

A disclaimer: I am writing this blog ffrom my new iPad. I am not sure that pictures will accompany the entries, but I am trying to figure that out. I will post photos on facebook from time to time.We have had a wonderful week in Israel with our beautiful little girls. It was a week of family time without much in the way of sight seeing. We did, of course, visit the Machane Yehudah shouk and the Old City. I had never been to the Kotel (Western Wall) at night...