HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016! From Karen & Paul Van Buren Please share some of our 2015 in photos |
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In January, Amy came home from DC, and we saw Stanford defeat defending NCAA basketball champion UConn. |
Paul received his 50-year certficate from the State Bar of California to complement his 50-year plaque from the State Bar of South Dakota. | |||
In March, we traveled from Hanoi, Viet Nam, through Cambodia on a Mekong River cruise, to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Viet Nam | ||||
Ho Chi Minh's tomb in Hanoi, Viet Nam | Boating on Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam | |||
Angkor Watt Temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia,with our Australian friends, Rob & Meg Thomas | Ta Prohm Temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia | |||
Traveling by Ox Cart in Cambodia | Royal Palace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia | |||
Traveling by "Rickshaw" in Cambodia | Saigon at night | |||
Unfortunately, Paul's ITP low platlet blood disease, which had been
in remission for almost three years returned while on the Mekong River in
Cambodia. Treatment
was started at an excellent expatrate clinic in Saigon and continued
with chemo back in the USA. It is apparently now again in remission. |
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In April, we visited Amy in Washington, DC, and finally saw the cherry blossoms with no snow. | ||||
In May, Karen traveled to Israel - the Dome of the Rock (left) and the Sea of Galilee (right) | ||||
In July-August, we traveled with Amy from Montreal to London. | ||||
Map of the 23-day cruise to London | Corner Brook, Newfoundland | |||
Paamuit, Greenland | Nuuk, Greenland-Photo Contest Prize Winner! | |||
Cathedral, Reyjavik, Iceland | Gulfoss Waterfalls, Iceland | |||
Torshavn, Faroe Islands | Bergen, Norway | |||
Bremen, Germany | Night Watch painting - Amsterdam | |||
Bruges, Belgium | Winchester Catherdral, England | |||
Punting on the Cam, Cambridge, England | Karen leaves for Hogwarts at Kings Cross | |||
We enjoyed times at the cabin we co-own on Pine Mountain Lake, near
Groveland, CA, but the four-year California drought kept our pontoon boat high and dry. |
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In September-October, Karen and Paul traveled to South Dakota, where Erik is in his second year at the University of South Dakota Law School | ||||
A combine with a 40-foot swath harvests soy beans; they let Paul ride, but not drive. | Paul enjoyed another mini-reunion of his Dell Rapids, SD, classmates in Sioux Falls. | |||
Old Main at USD | The USD Coyote with Old Main in the distance | |||
Stanford had a great 12 wins, 2 losses football season, winning the January 1, 2016, Rose Bowl and finishing ranked No. 3 in the USA | ||||
Amy came home from DC & Erik from South Dakota for our traditional Christmas morning photo |
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Happy New Year 2016! | ||||
Paul & Karen
Van Buren Los Altos, CA |
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