Well, hello, everyone. I know I haven't written here in a little while. Jenny posted several stories earlier, but I haven't said anything in a long time. I'm sitting right now at King's Cross/St. Pancras International Rail Station, waiting to board a Eurostar train that will take me to Brussels. At the same time as I was getting on a Circle Line Underground train to King's Cross, Jenny was boarding a Circle Line train in the opposite direction to Heathrow.

Tonight I thought of two random money-saving ideas that I would like to pass along.

Jonathan's Facebook entry about lighthouses today reminded me of this website that I found on Lighthouses of Australia Project.
True to its title, it contains some decent photos of Australian lighthouses. Scroll down the site a bit, and you will find "Corrugated Lighthouses," a memoir by a Lighthouse Keeper's wife. Part 4 of this piece provides an engaging description of the aftermath of a shipwreck.

My Grandma Gaffron and my Aunt Sue had a prime piece of real estate. At least, they had use of it for 24 hours, time enough to watch of the State College Fireworks in 2003. A new hotel had been built on the edge of town, less than a year previously. Gram and Aunt Sue had rented a room on the side that would face the massive fireworks celebration that was to take place that night. Since the hotel was so new, we could not be assured of our vantage point for the show, but it looked promising.

Two weekends ago, Jonathan and I watched our friends John and Mari pledge their faithfulness to each other in a stucco-covered adobe church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Congratulations, Mari and John! It was a beautiful Orthodox Christian wedding. The church itself is Antiochian Orthodox, one chain in the lush emblazoned tapestry of culture and faith that is Santa Fe.

Hi, again. This is Jonathan's wife, Jenny. Jonathan is currently on the way home from our friend Charlie's ordination as a priest at the cathedral at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Congratulations, Rev. Charles Cortinovis!

Anyway, since Jonathan has been busy and will continue to be busy in the upcoming week, I am going to start blogging my perspective of our trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico for another friend's wedding.