Having spent most of New Year's Eve and the start of the New Year in the air over the Atlantic, I had a little bit of time to reflect on the event of the past year and the hopes, wishes, plans and resolutions for the year to come. In the reflection category goes the most recent past, which includes my wonderful two week holiday with KR in Florida and my family in Texas. Those fourteen days flew by. It was a little bittersweet to return to my apartment in Paris, which still bore the traces of my departure two weeks prior. It'll be another hundred days before packing up my bags again for the next visit to Jax, but there is a lot to do between now and then and I plan to make the most of it.
But first, a few memories from Christmas vacation 2010:
Dad's post-Christmas surprise: A renewed pilot's license and a bird's-eye view of Temple:
Pop the pilot preps the plane
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| Every good pilot needs a trusty co-pilot |
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| Only in Texas do high school football fields, excuse me, stadiums, look like this |
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| The beaming pilot after two successful takeoffs and landings |
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| The plane, the plane! |
Post Flight trip to Lake Belton
Kyle's inaugural visit to Austin:
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| Mt. Bonnell park - overlooking Lake Austin |
-Trip up to Mt. Bonnell park
-Attempted trip to St. Stephen's; rebuffed by the pugnacious security guard
-Lunch at the Hula Hut on Lake Austin
-Experiencing "Keep Austin Weird" with a drive down Lamar blvd and a Central Market tour
-Downtown stroll around the Drag and the UT campus
-Back to Temple for Sushi with the family
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| looking eastward |
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| looking westward |
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| looking cool |
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| looking over downtown Austin |
It wouldn't be a proper visit to Jax without a post-Karibo Café Fernandina Beach adventure:
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| Even the Florida sky knows he's a saint |
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| Time to fly back across the Atlantic |
Post Flight trip to Lake Belton
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