Please share our life in 2008 through some of our photos
In February we took a cruise from Sydney, Australia, to Bangkok,Thailand.
Here are a few of our Asian wildlife encounters:
Koala in Darwin
Wallaby
in Darwin
Unhappy monkey on
Koh Samui Island,Thailand
Obligatory Elephant Ride in Thailand
Karen Likes Topiary Elephants
In April Paul went to Oregon to help celebrate Cousin Red Van Buren's 89th Birthday.
Here are 5 Van Buren men!
Paul also visited Cousins Tom and Bob Thomsen (age 94)
in Walla Walla, Washington
In May we took a terrific, but quite chilly, month-long river trip through 3,000 miles of Russia
from Rostov-on-Don down near the Black Sea up to St. Petersburg, via Moscow
Paul in Moscow's
Red Square
(still wearing his Stanford cap)
Karen in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad
Amy spent the summer as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Africa,
where Karen visited her.
Atop the Sindou Peaks
With the diviner/healer & his festishes
In July Don McDonald turned 90. He and Audrey McDonald (Karen's mother) celebrated at a McDonald reunion.
In September we visited Amy
in Washington, DC
Erik and Paul go to
Stanford football games.
Wait until next year?
Karen (far right) has been
spending silly
time with her
Red Hat group
Kitty Cat Corner: Phantom, Pokey VI & Mrs. Norris
Fat Phantom Rules
Pokey can't intimidate this hummingbird
Mrs. Norris has claimed the big leather chair
Christmas Mornings with Erik & Amy
Then:
2008:
. . . and still cute!
Paul & Karen Van Buren
Los Altos, CA 94024
650-967-5649
paul@vanburen.us karen@vanburen.us
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