2007 Recap Video

Here's our 2007 Recap Video Postcard from all of our adventures. Relive the year with us as we share pictures of our journeys, our friends, family and loved ones. We hope you enjoy viewing this as much as we enjoyed putting this together for you.

Love, John & Cyn

Happy New Year!

In a first for most of us in Colorado, we celebrated New Years in multiple time zones. For our New Years Celebration we stayed in and cooked (Dwayne's fried shrimp, John's grilled BBQ salmon, Nedelka's sweet potatoes, rice and garlic spinach), listened to music-more on that in a minute- and popped plenty of champagne. Dwayne was hilariously using 'natural refrigeration' by tossing the bottles of champagne out of the sliding glass door into the snow! For all we know, some lucky soul could be popping champagne in May when all the snow melts.


The theme of the evening's music was 'That's My Sh...', where we all picked out 3-5 (or 8 in Marise's case!) of our favorite songs from any genre, Rus downloaded them into his I-Pod and DJ Brandon played the list. When your song came on, you hopped up and yelled 'That's My Shhhhh!' (there were kids present so we kept it clean) and danced. Some of the songs were, Get Money by Lil Kim, Before I Let Go by Frankie Beverly, Gotta Get You Home with me Tonight by Foxy Brown and the one that moved the crowd the most, The Show by Doug E. Fresh.


We paused for the ball dropping in Time Square at 10pm local time, celebrating with our Eastern Time Zone friends, partied up to 11:59 local time and counted down to 2008 Mountain Time. We rang in the New Year with Kanye West's hit, The Good Life-the theme for all of us in the upcoming year. "I go for mine, I got to shine, now throw your hands up in the sky.. I'ma get on this TV mama, I'ma put it down, hey, I'm GOOD!'
The music lasted well into the night/early morning as the party went on.




The following morning Marise cooked breakfast for the masses as the girls prepared to embark on their previously delayed spa and shopping day. They headed out as the guys hung out at the house watching New Years Day bowl games. Later that evening, Cynthia and I decided to go on our sleigh ride that we had planned for New Years Eve but was canceled due to the weather. Our sleigh ride was at 7:30pm local time so as you can imagine the sun had long since been down and any warmth it provided earlier in the day was GONE! As we boarded the sleigh the temperature couldn't have been higher than -10 degrees. It was easily the coldest either one of us had ever been.

The short (thankfully) ride thru the snowy mountains led us to a cozy log cabin where we fortunately were seated near the wood burning stove which helped to warm us up quickly. We were informed the dinner and show had a cowboy theme from the 1860's. We poured hot chocolate into tin mugs, were served our food on metal plates and were "entertained" by cowboy songs and poems. We were served bbq chicken, baked beans, corn on the cob & fresh rolls. The food was excellent, especially the apple pie served for dessert. It was truly an experience.


The following morning it was up EARLY (3:30 AM) to wrap up the vacation and head back east. The 2 oversized SUVs we had rented for the week weren't sufficient for all of the luggage so we had a transport van come just to drive bags to the airport! All of us flying back to Ft. Lauderdale were on the same flight that left at 9:30am. Brandon, Nedelka and Kyla flew back to Maryland at 8:30. We left sub zero temperatures in Colorado to come back on the coldest day in Florida in over a year! Of course, everything is relative, FL cold was 55 degrees!

We're home safely with pictures, memories and lots of winter clothes to stick in the closet. Stay tuned for the next adventure!