Feliz Navidad!  Semester exams have started and will soon be over!  Enjoy the break!

WE DEPART IN 162 DAYS!  Sunny Spain awaits!

1.      Our family has moved to a farmhouse built in the 1890s on 5 acres about 7 miles northwest of Ankeny.  Our new postal address is Polk City, IA 50226.  I grew up on 5 acres in rural Kansas, and I'm pretty pleased to be able to return to that type of living.  I have attached the most recent roster with numbers and addresses.  Please contact me regarding corrections.

2.      I have attached passport instructions.  Please begin the process soon.  I need to see your passport and have photocopies of the vital information by our meeting on April 15, 2007.

3.      We will NOT meet on Sunday, April 8, 2007, as originally scheduled a year or so ago because it is Easter Sunday.  We will meet instead on SUNDAY, APRIL 15 at 7 p.m. at Northview.  Please mark that date and time on your calendar now!  At this meeting, we will check your passports and help prepare you for packing for the trip to Spain.  We hope to enLIGHTen you about how to travel without eight pairs of shoes and a sixty-pound suitcase.

4.      PLEASE REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE UPON RECEIPT!  A simple "Yep", "Feliz Navidad", "Lo tengo", or "Go Hawks" is enough, or allow me to answer any questions that you might have.  I'll follow up in a few days with those who don't reply assuming that their email info has changed.

Feliz Navidad y Prospero Ano Nuevo, Senor R/Jim