Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Newport, Rhode Island


It's good to be home.

I have neglected blogging for quite some time. As I downloaded the pix from my camera, I realized there was a lot that I failed to blog over the past few weeks. I thought of trying to do a massive post about all our goings on, but figured that would get too cumbersome.
Thanks a ton for the suprise birthday party for me at Nana's when I dropped the kids off. It was great. And, I really appreciate all of the happybirthday's I got from all of you. Some of the voice mails just showed up on my phone this week (I have a crummy old phone). 32 doesn't feel that different. I imagine when I get to be Geoff, Jon, or Fred's age, I will feel a bit different. Because, face it, they ARE old.

As you may know, I was up in Rhode Island for a two week international law of military operations course; it was quite interesting. We had some of the I-law heavy hitters addressing us, and I got to rub shoulders with a lot of senior JAGs and lawyers from other countries (Argentina, Serbia, UK, Australia, Lebanon, Israel, etc...). It was a good course.

And, Celeste and the kids drove all the way up to surprise me on Father's Day. It was such a nice gesture, and I sure appreciated having them close by...tho I don't think they appreciated the hotel room with one bed!!!

On Sunday, we went for a hike on Newport's famous Cliff Walk...I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...






6 comments:

Celeste said...

What are you saying? My post was too lengthy? It was a pretty cliff walk with the Mansions in the background.

lesley & robert said...

ooh...look at me...i'm hayes and celeste and i have cute kids and do fun things!
seriously...those pics are great!

we miss you guys!

nana said...

Beautiful pictures. Hayes, remember Corey is old,too. 40 today!

Courtney said...

great pictures!

Whitney Larsen said...

I love those pictures...love to see the shore sometime soon. And yet I've been dreaming about drowning in the ocean lately...hmm...

Celeste said...

Whitney, read Rebecca lately?