HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A SPLENDID NEW YEAR!

We are told that it will be 71F (22C) on Christmas Eve!!  Our snowman may have melted by then but we hope you have a very Happy Christmas and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.  Watch those waistlines!

Click on “Read more” below for some photos of family and friends in 2015....

JANUARY

Meeting up with our dear friend, Peter Sullivan, in San Francisco

CHOP outing to San Pablo, Laguna with 

Pia (far left leaning in), Regee (far right) and me (center back)!

Regee and Gracita having lunch at the Makati Club

 Dinner party at Swiss Residence: L to R: Bernard, 

Nina, Victoria, Pia, Gracita, Regee and Ivo

FEBRUARY

Ivo at Baliwag Falls on our amazing day trip to Infanta

Anvaya Cove, Subic Bay with Regee, Adrian, 

Patricia, Veronica and Max

Dinner with Bruce and Ching Purdue in Manila

Tolentino Family afternoon tea at Swiss Residence

MARCH

After Jose’s show at the Lincoln Center

Gracita and Regee hobnobbing with David Byrne 

after Jose’s Lincoln Center show

APRIL

Dinner at Sarah’s apartment with Paul, Jane,

Sarah and Matthew

Jane prepares brunch at her house

MAY

Regee and Jose’s birthday and Veronica’s 

ballet recital (May 5) in Winchester, MA

 Max’s birthday party, May 7

Paul’s birthday party, May 14

Rich and Wayne on our Annual Road Trip

JUNE

 With great nephew Finlay in Maldon, England

 My nephew Alex with wife Janet and daughters Paige and Ellie

From L to R: Our friend Maureen, my brother Mike, wife Maureen, 

daughter Becky with hubby Steve and young Finlay 

Sarah and Jane in Pawley’s Island, South Carolina,

where we celebrated Sarah’s birthday (June 14)

JULY

Visiting Friedrich and Laurie in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

 Climbing Sugarloaf Mountain with 

Paul, Sarah and Jane

Lunch with Peter and Margaret Kyle

in Chalk Point, Maryland

AUGUST

Regee cooks dinner for Sarah and Matthew

 Jose’s curtain call in “The King and I” at the Lincoln Center 

Regee with our friends from Down Under,
John and Raewyn, at Present Restaurant

SEPTEMBER

 Veronica’s birthday on September 7, with Max and Oliver

Regee makes the best summer rolls at a cooking demo at 

Salamander Resort, Middleburg

OCTOBER

I persuaded Regee to come on a very early morning
walk to Great Falls.  A rare event!

Regee, Patricia and Veronica at Halloween 

in Winchester, MA

NOVEMBER

Dinner party at our house on November 14

My fishing buddy, Nikolai, with two friends

Regee, me, Andrea, Sarah, Matthew, Paul and Nico

at our dinner party

Thanksgiving with Patricia and Adrian and 

Max and Veronica in Winchester, MA

DECEMBER

Decorating the Christmas tree in Winchester

My dear friend, Richard Lees, whom I met in Montreal
many moons ago, now living in Sete, France

Toasting (roasting?) my buddy Wayne at his 70th birthday party