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Yours truly,

Flickr is a great place to store your photos and share them with your friends. It’s also fun because you can comment on your friends’ photos.

There is now a new feature called geo-tagging. It’s not like geocaching and you don’t have to know the lat/long of the location, just drag and drop it like a pin on a map. Since I put pins in a map of the world on my office wall, this is a feature I really love! Here is a link to my map.

An opportunity for one of those quick trips I love presented itself last week. On the Friday before last, very late in the day (just before 5pm), a new claim came in. The damage needed to be inspected pretty quickly, so I woke up at 4:30 on Tuesday morning and caught an early flight to Rochester, NY via O’Hare. The area was surprisingly pretty once I got outside of Rochester (the location was about 45 miles east).

After inspecting the damage, the owner of the company took me for a tour of the area, then took me to her house, introduced me to her husband and three cats, and offered me wine and cheese.
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This will be the last post about this year’s Key West trip. I guess in about six months, I’ll start pining for our next trip
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Saturday was Bobby & Ian’s day. We awoke to pouring rain, which tapered off by 10 and held off until the evening. They had the most gorgeous and happy ceremony at the Hemingway House about 10:30 in the morning. Lots of pictures are on James’s Flickr account, and available here. The ceremony was relatively short but very sweet, followed by champagne toasts and then lots of pictures. Then, we headed to Square One Restaurant for the reception. This is Bobby & Ian’s reception we’re talking about here, so of course it was open bar. James and I and some of the other friends arrived a bit early so that photos of the happy couple could be taken with family and then just them. We were a bit thirsty since it was humid out, so we had some water. A bit later, Bobby’s brother, Tim, arrived and he ordered a mojito. Then it was all over. Many drinks were consumed, a festive time was had, and a scrumptious lunch was served. The boys cut their cake while the guests blew bubbles. It was a great time!
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So we’ve been back a whole week and I’ve yet to mention our trip much. Just basking in the afterglow of a wonderful vacation. This is more a travel diary for me to read and use for reminiscing than it is for others, so there may be more detail here than the casual blog reader cares for.

Planning and thinking about trips is really fun for me, so I spent plenty of time doing just that in advance. Wednesday after work, James and I made the five hour round trip to drop off Bosley and Colby at my parents’ house. Thursday I left the office about 1:30 and went home to help James with the final packing arrangements, then Jonas arrived and we left with Brian for the airport on time! We caught up with Gary at the gate and our flight left on time as well. The plane had quite a few children, but when you’re flying to Florida, what do you expect?
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