Oh HAPPY DAY!!!

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Oh HAPPY DAY!!! Finally, our long awaited passports were returned to us from the Embassy of Zimbabwe with our visa stamps inside. All my calls paid off. The stamps look so official. I remember when Jesse Rose and I went to Denmark 11 years ago for the International Convention in Copenhagen, we had a stopover in Reykjavik, Iceland. On our way home, Jesse decided that she wanted to become a "stamp collector"...passport stamps, that is! So we sleuthed out the official place where you get them. We excitedly went out the little gate and went up to the window where a rather stern looking fellow was and asked him to stamp our passports. He had a bit of fun with us and made us squirm telling us he'd have to see proof of this, that and the other. Eventually when we were sufficiently disturbed, he stamped our books and let us back through the formidable entrance gate.

Our little contact cards came too and the turned out pretty dang cool, especially since the photos of Sean and I as well as Colin's were not the greatest of quality but I used them because I was in a pinch and I wanted the pictures of us to reflect our true personalities. I think that all of these do just that! Thank you to Jesse Rose for the photo she took of the tipi's on her trip here during the winter out at the Battlefield Trading Post in Crow Agency. Nicholas took the photo on the left on one of his many adventures. I believe that was taken at Mystic Lake a couple of weeks ago. And Colin's stunning photo of the Big Horn Canyon is breathtaking and simply had to be included. The top photo I took with my phone whilst pulled over on the way home to Hardin from a long several days in Columbus working on getting our house there ready to put on the market. It was one of those evenings when in every direction you looked, there was a different set of cloud patterns to gawk at. Jack (our pug) was with me and I was afraid that he'd slip out if I opened the door to get a picture, so I stood on the seats and poked up through the sunroof and snapped away! I wanted a pic that would show what we see in our territory a lot and well, the long open road with a beautiful big sky is very fitting indeed!

We are now 8 days away from driving off into the sunrise...a sunrise on a whole new adventure!