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No run today, but thought I would share my Christmas card with my new friends here!

And our letter too:

I didn’t think I’d be spending another Christmas in Okinawa, but here we (still) are. I am confident that this will be the last Christmas card we send from Oki. We should be leaving the island in January and I hope Indiana still has some snow waiting for me. I can’t wait to finally see snow after 3 and a half long years. You’ll find me in the yard making snow angels, snow men, snow balls, snow cones... A quick shot of a Mid-West winter will serve as a good transition for David--he’ll spend 2009 in Greenland, only about 900 miles from Santa’s workshop.  Brrr!

David was gone again this February, and I didn’t get to witness his absolute elation when his team-NY Giants-won the SuperBowl. Luckily, he made it back just in time to cheer me on in the Okinawa marathon. I’ll never know who he cheered more loudly for--me or the Giants.

David continues to spend a lot of time on the golf course. He recently shot a new “PR”-78. David’s dedication to golf gives me plenty of time for my latest obsession-knitting.

We got a dog! Unfortunately, we only got to keep him for a few hours. He joined us while we were out running one Saturday morning and followed us all the way home--about 4 miles! Then we called his owner and arranged for pick-up.  I wish I could’ve kept him, he would’ve made a great running partner!

In July, we took a dream-trip to Australia! It was fantastic! We--yes, WE--ran the Gold Coast Marathon. It was David’s first one. The jury’s still out on whether it was his last. So far, he hasn’t given up his golf clubs for running shoes. Ten days in “Oz” was a great way to get out of the Oki-heat! I don’t know if the weather forecasts were wrong or if I just forgot what 62-69 degrees felt like, but it was COLD! We each came home with a new coat! We fed kangaroos, ate fries but called them “chips”, cuddled koalas, rode trains & ferries, and took about 100 photos of the Opera House. Although his plans to golf while we were in the Gold Coast were thwarted by the rain several times, David eventually got to go golfing in Sydney.  

Since our return to Okinawa, life has been pretty tame.  We both got back to the grindstone at work and haven’t done much else. I’ll be handing my 2^nd graders over to a new and unsuspecting teacher at the end of November *evil laugh* and enjoying a month of paid vacation until we leave.