Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Getting Back to the Jungle - Family Time

A happy family portrait - Next stop New Orleans!

Here is Jenée's love - her dinner. This is the venison and duck combo that she felt was the best she ever tried. While I of simpler tastes felt the Mac and cheese was "to die for".

Our Mexican Senoritas are hamming up once again.


Everyone's happy. Here is Mike, Monica and Monica's daughter Giovanna. Monica has multiple businesses in Monterey providing upscale kitchen appliances. We love spending time with Monica and Giovanna as they are great fun.


Charlene Webber and Mike Webber have big smiles for the camera.

Jenée and her Dad Lonnie pose at a restaurant on the San Antonio Riverwalk called Biga. What a meal!
We made our way to San Antonio, TX to visit with Jenée's family (Mom, Dad, Brother Mike). The Webber's just moved from San Diego to San Antonio. They settled in to a great new home while Mike and beautiful lady friend Monica live 5 hours away in Monterey, Mexico. Mike manages the Latin American business for manufacturing equipment giant Amada.


While taking a Jucuzzi, Yanko demonstrates the Ukranian tradition of "Here is my hand to you", or "here, smell my hand". As you may imagine, it is very long and loving tradition.


We made it to Buckeye, AZ and our good friends Kristy and Darren Yankovsky. They were our best man and maid of honor for our wedding - 10 years ago. Darren is from Montreal and played professional hockey for many years, mostly as an enforcer. Some may call it goon, Yanko would prefer to call it disagreement arbitration. One stat for Yanko - 87 professional fights, lost twice. I've seen him in action and it is as pretty to watch as figure skating - no doubt.

And we're off on the Jungle Land Sail 2011 ! Hold on, we blew this tire on our ride while not quite out of California. Key word being blew! I was convinced it was from having our big ride (Escalade) sitting in the garage for a good part of a year. Jenée felt it may be caused by low tire pressure - women! The AAA guy (that's right - complicated tire change for the ace) looked at the tire and said this type of blow out indicated low tire pressure. I told him that's what I thought. When he pulled the flat we found a nail stuck in the center, causing a slow leak - who knew! We then put the spare on and Jenée commented that we need to be careful because the spare is an different (original) size. I started to assure her we'd be OK for a bit and the AAA guy said "Oh no, you don't want to drive far on this spare." Of course! Tell me something I don't know. Glad I was available to supervise the effort.

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