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Friday afternoon we leave work early and go to Spokane. Saturday we're on our way to Southern California and stay 2 nights with Sandy. Sunday is an abbreviated Thanksgiving with Sandy and her husband. She's doing all the cooking and Sean and his wife are coming up for the day from San Diego. Monday the trip really begins! 11 hour flight from San Fransisco gets us in Frankfurt on Tuesday morning. When there Sandy has us on an itinerary of mostly 2 nights in several cities across the country, with 3 nights in Berlin. Back to Frankfurt and 10 hours to get back. Sandy says she thinks I'll be watching Germany through a viewfinder as we travel, I don't think so, but it also isn't likely I'd be back there anytime soon so I'm planning on lots of photos and video. Along that goal it works out perfect that Google recently has made it possible to add 20 GB of photo storage to their already allocated 1 GB on their Picasa Web Albums for only $5.00 a year. So I signed up

Some brief highlights of last weeks trip to Missouri. It was a trip to be able to be in attendance of my fathers 50th wedding anniversary celebration. Unfortunately Stacy couldn't be there with me due to work issues this time, everybody said how much they would have liked to see her, I would have liked her to have been there too!! I really enjoy flying, just not in airliners. Were I really wealthy I'd have my own plane and fly myself on trips such as these, we're not that well off though and private aircraft rental is so expensive now you could fly back and forth several times via airliners at the cost of renting a small plane for one round trip. But even with all the changes to my flights and schedules, it got me there. Due to changes, Mike and Brenda arrived well before I did instead of the within a half an hour of each other. They were able to meet up with old friends and have dinner with them before I got to Kansas City. They picked me up and we made the over hour drive