I was just starting to go around the house mumbling, "I hope she's all right!" Now, it's your turn! We leave for Mazatlan 2/25, ret. 3/15. I am sure we will be all right, however. Eric and I can hardly wait to get away from G'ma worries, collecting rents, etc. We will miss all our little and larger ones. I will miss reading my book to Faith. My writing teacher has me in contact w/a woman who gets a book published; now without a lot of work, but I am rarin' to go! I can't wait for a N.squeeze! G'ma Ruth

Hurray! Your blog and pics of Vietnam are beautiful. "Natalie on the Mekong" is now my wallpaper. You look lovely and happy! Sounds like you are making the most of every day. Thanks for the education. Love you! Mom

Hello dearest! Thank you for the postcard. It was so nice. Hey, bring those kids over to me. I will take care of them! Love you ~ me

Glad to hear your stories. I sure miss you around here!! (FYI - I'm looking at jobs over by your turf...)

You have been to places in Asia that I have not yet been. Namely, Ankar Wat. I am so jealous! The pics are great and adventure wonderful. Well done, you! Good friends and good adventures. Can't wait until you get here! Love, Mom

I'll go public instead of e-mailing you. But privately, you did not jump off the 2nd floor of the boat. You jumped off the upper deck/main deck etc. (I'm so embarassed) What a blast! When will we ever get g.dtr. hugs again? We do have 2 cutsie little ones in the person of Julia and Ruth here at home. They keep us busy. We go to Leavenworth next w.end, Mex. Feb. 28 for 3 weeks. I'll never get my train trip! Love, G'ma

I can sense what is going-on here. All those viewings of "TITANIC" - of course, that's the destination! First it's 30m, then it is 100m... See? Nothing gets by me.... not very often... sometimes. I suppose this means a bigger watercraft. OK.

Hey, wait a minute. I thought you wanted to become a mahout and live with the elephants? Now it's a divemaster? What a great life! Can't wait to see the pics. Is Marilyn ready to go home? NO? Love, Mom

I told you diving was awesome... So what you mean is I have a new dive buddy when you get back? Just say the word and I'm there!!

Hey Babes, What a great adventure! Bottle Island sounds divine, once you get there, but getting there was half the fun. Right? I laughed and laughed at the stories. Internet is sketchy here though and I think I am only getting page one. Scuba-on! Love you, Mom

Hi Natalie, I just finished looking at your pictures from the elephant park. What a great experience. You both look wonderful and excited. So tell me about this park. Why do they have a park? Is it a reserve? Why are the animals not wild? Tell Marilyn hi. So what's next? Or where? We are off of school today because we got about 3 and more inches of snow but the worst part is the freezing. It is about 30 in the day and low 20 at night so it's not melting. they already called school off for tomorrow (Fri). Instead of June 15, it's now June 20. I don't think it's over either. We started with, of course, the worst rain in November in decades, then serious windstorms in early Dec. where school was 2 hours late for days then we missed one day because of power outages, which we'd already had while we were at school the other days!! So now we are having a 5 day weekend for MLK day Monday. It's been crazy! Well, just wanted to drop you a hi. Let us know what's up. Carol

Natalie, you look so great. Awesome pictures as usual. ttfn