How wonderful to hear from a dear friend from s-o-o-o long ago despite my inattention!!
You know of course that I’ve lost all my previous emails and contacts list so you might have to refresh my memory on who is where, etc. I finished high school in St. Louis Girls in the city hence I’m sure not many of your hi-school contemporaries would remember me.
I’ve only recently reinstated my facebook account so you might notice you’re still not my “friend”. Not to worry as I rarely post anything on FB – I leave that to the younger generation. (BTW the lady to the right of the screen is my mom’s sister who was living with us then.)
In August of 2006 before my mom passed away (Jan 2007) we were in Toronto visiting my cousin and her young family who were new immigrants, only 2 years. Had I been aware that I had friends in Toronto I could have made an effort to contact you for a mini-reunion. Because until the GFS in 2009 my husband Ron and I used to fly to Vancouver a lot as he had a business partner domiciled there. Also because we love Whistler in winter! But now our “relationship” with Canada is in escrow until we all find ourselves firmly on our feet once again.
I travel to the US regularly as we share ownership of a house in Vail, Colorado with one of my twin daughters (Nicole) and we also share ownership of a house in London with the other twin (Nelda) and her husband. Hence I divide my time between London, Colorado, Manila, Kangaroo Island in South Australia (where we have a holiday house) and Adelaide. I know, I know – minimize our carbon footprint! It is rather difficult to do as both our daughters live / work in London, we love the ski season in Vail, we adore Europe and Ron still has a mineral exploration company in the Phillipines with his Aussie business partner.
Presently I’m not in Adelaide as we’re doing some renos to our holiday house in KI and then sometime in the northern summer we need to do some repairs to our Vail house. We’re slowly drifting towards an imminent sale of this house before the weak US economy totally obliterates the value of the house. Besides there no longer is any need to have property there as Nicole seems to prefer London. We’re also more than ever trending towards Europe for our winter activities.
Then in September we attend a friend’s daughter’s wedding in England. Would that I become a first time grandmother in 2012 so I can live permanently in England. This will greatly eliminate my c/footprint indiscretions of yore!
Information OVERLOAD – got’ta get you back on to your other emails. I hope one day we can get together somehow – perhaps you can consider visiting Australia?!?
Warmest, Wilma
p.s. My brother, Dwight, and his wife are presently in Australia visiting their children and their young families. We got together at Christmas and we remembered the Lambinos as the most reputable and unequalled tailors in Baguio. Then we realized we were just repeating our late parents’ comments!
You know of course that I’ve lost all my previous emails and contacts list so you might have to refresh my memory on who is where, etc. I finished high school in St. Louis Girls in the city hence I’m sure not many of your hi-school contemporaries would remember me.
I’ve only recently reinstated my facebook account so you might notice you’re still not my “friend”. Not to worry as I rarely post anything on FB – I leave that to the younger generation. (BTW the lady to the right of the screen is my mom’s sister who was living with us then.)
In August of 2006 before my mom passed away (Jan 2007) we were in Toronto visiting my cousin and her young family who were new immigrants, only 2 years. Had I been aware that I had friends in Toronto I could have made an effort to contact you for a mini-reunion. Because until the GFS in 2009 my husband Ron and I used to fly to Vancouver a lot as he had a business partner domiciled there. Also because we love Whistler in winter! But now our “relationship” with Canada is in escrow until we all find ourselves firmly on our feet once again.
I travel to the US regularly as we share ownership of a house in Vail, Colorado with one of my twin daughters (Nicole) and we also share ownership of a house in London with the other twin (Nelda) and her husband. Hence I divide my time between London, Colorado, Manila, Kangaroo Island in South Australia (where we have a holiday house) and Adelaide. I know, I know – minimize our carbon footprint! It is rather difficult to do as both our daughters live / work in London, we love the ski season in Vail, we adore Europe and Ron still has a mineral exploration company in the Phillipines with his Aussie business partner.
Presently I’m not in Adelaide as we’re doing some renos to our holiday house in KI and then sometime in the northern summer we need to do some repairs to our Vail house. We’re slowly drifting towards an imminent sale of this house before the weak US economy totally obliterates the value of the house. Besides there no longer is any need to have property there as Nicole seems to prefer London. We’re also more than ever trending towards Europe for our winter activities.
Then in September we attend a friend’s daughter’s wedding in England. Would that I become a first time grandmother in 2012 so I can live permanently in England. This will greatly eliminate my c/footprint indiscretions of yore!
Information OVERLOAD – got’ta get you back on to your other emails. I hope one day we can get together somehow – perhaps you can consider visiting Australia?!?
Warmest, Wilma
p.s. My brother, Dwight, and his wife are presently in Australia visiting their children and their young families. We got together at Christmas and we remembered the Lambinos as the most reputable and unequalled tailors in Baguio. Then we realized we were just repeating our late parents’ comments!
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