North American Visitors

We are enjoying welcoming visitors from North America this week. 

Yesterday Laurie’s cousin and family, Carl, Debbie and Justin from Atlanta, GA, stopped by during their Colorado vacation.  I think it’s been 8 years since we saw them so it was great to catch up on what has been going on in their lives. They were living in Denver when we moved here in 1984 and Debbie lined Laurie up with a doctor, who delivered Rosie in April, 1984. We looked at a picture from 20 years ago, June, 1991, and, although the kids in the picture have all grown up, the adult’s looks surprisingly similar, yea for all of us.

Today we had a delightful visit with a college friend of Laurie’s, Steve.  Laurie and Steve graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1976.  Steve has been teaching in Norfolk, NE and recently retired.  He continues to play the organ for two churches and is involved in other community music activities.  We found a picture from a previous visit with Steve from 1982 and enjoyed seeing how little those photographed had changed!  We don’t know for sure the last time we saw him but it was most likely well over 20 years ago.  He called us on Thursday evening from Ogallala, NE. He was on his way to a wedding in Keystone and we are so glad he gave us a call to see if we would be around during his Colorado trip.

Tomorrow I’m meeting a friend and former work associate, Bruce, for breakfast.  Bruce and I worked together at US WEST in the 1990’s. He worked for me doing investor relations and had an opportunity to take the top IR job at a Canadian telecommunications company around 1998.  Laurie and I went to his going away party and he has lived north of the border since then.  He currently lives in Toronto.  We’ve stayed in touch with email and an occasional phone conversation and have seen each other at NIRI events now and then.  It’s been four or five years since I’ve seen him so it will be good to catch up.

It’s always great to reacquaint with people we once saw daily or weekly or at least many times a year.  Colorado is a great vacation spot and we are lucky to live here and welcome friends when they visit it on holiday!