whitebeard

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Merry Christmas $ Happy New Year

TWIN EMAILS

The message (from Florence, Italy)

Dear friends, Wanda and Lee,  thank you very much
> for your letter with the story of the year 2007. We
> also had a good year and so our sons Michele and
> Simone. We visited Sicily and we went to Lisboa
> where we met portugal friends, going to Coimbra and
> the Estoril coast and so on. The next year we have
> in mind London and Stockolm. We'll see. About the
> general world panorama, we must admit that thinks
> are not so kind and beautifull and, in the specific,
> we hope that american people succeed changing his
> President in the 2008. Actually in the last times
> the imagine of North America isn't like it was
> before nineeleven 2001. We like America and admire
> his people and in particular all americans we met in
> our homeexchanging (Arizona, NYC, S.Francisco...).
> Also here in Florence we have kind american friends.
>
> In this spirit and mood we say to us and to you:
> Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2008.
> A hug from Paola and Urbano.

The answer (from Arizona, USA)

It's so good to hear from you!  We greatly enjoyed our
trip to Portugal and Spain.  We traveled with
Elderhostel so our trip was preplanned.  Lee and John
feel more secure traveling with that group. 

Three times on that trip our tour director brought in
young people, college ages and once young married
couples to talk to us.  We asked them to ask us
questions also.

One of the things they said was that we should be more
careful picking our president.  Of course they are
right.  The strange thing is that we don't know very
many people that voted for Bush but yet he gets so
many votes.  I'm hopeful that our next president can
do so much better.  At least I'm hopeful they can talk
about serious things without that silly smirk on their
face.

I think the democrat party just gets out smarted on
picking their promises.  We have so many people that
think they are voting for their religious beliefs.
anyway, we have great hopes that we'll do better but I
don't know how they will clean up the mess this
administration has made.  I sure wouldn't want to have
the job.

We hope you have a very good year and stay healthy.
We have a great deal to be thankful for.

Love,  Wanda

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