This album starts with a whitewater rafting trip to the Ocoee River in Tennessee. (You don't see me in the raft because my job was to wander up and down the Ocoee taking pictures.) You will also find photos of our sons Michael and Thom preparing to play golf and actually getting along like adults. This album also includes various pictures of how I looked at different stages of recovery after my cranial surgery. On December 20 and 21, 2009, Sylvia, Kelly, and Carter came for a brief visit, so I added a few shots from that visit. There are also shots of our Christmas decorations for 2009. Some National Championship shots and a few shots of a really cold Sunday morning in January. Also, on January 28, 2010, Michael and his little family stopped by for a visit. There are a few shots of the snowstorm on February 12, 2010; and a few of Michael's new dog, Mangler. Also a few shots from the Maasquerade Talent Competition near the end of February.
The Raft-Tossing River: Carol, Kim, Thom, and Sarah. (August 1, 2009)
That's Carol second from the left working her paddle like crazy. Not many grandmothers could handle a trip down the raft-tossing Ocoee River. Thom and Sarah are in the front of the raft. Third from the left is Kim, Thom's wife. The boat captain, all the way to the left, was a slim young thing named Lulu. She was about Sarah's size, but she was plenty strong enough to manage a raft full of people. (Just so you know! The Ocoee River photos in this album were shot on the lower half of the 1996 Olympic Whitewater Slalom course on a day when the water was running high and fast. The big ROCK is right about the spot where most of the Olympic judges watched that world-class competition on a world-class whitewater river.)