Rick and Emily Francona wish you a happy and prosperous 2015!
Some highlights of our 2014...
We did a lot of traveling
Crystal Serenity
Rick was hired to be a speaker on a two week cruise
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Three of our eight ports of call - Cinqueterre (Porto Venere), Italy
Nice, France - Monte Carlo, Monaco
Skiing Mount Bachelor (Bend), Oregon
Susie and Bill Emel - Cathy and Paul Peschiera
The ski trip was a bonus - we were there for the wedding of one of our adopted goddaughters - Nikki Hampton (now Pense).
Fishing in Mexico's Sea of Cortez - a 24 pound dorado (filleting done by Paul Peschiera)\
At the Tropic of Cancer on the Baja Peninsula, Mexico (remember junior high geography?)
Rick inside the tropics, then outside the tropics....
Caracara - Los Barriles, Mexico
At the Farm with Paul and Cathy Peschiera outside San Jose del Cabo
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Amador Wine Country - click image for more photos
Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe
Top photo 1982, bottom 2014
Quick trip to Florida
Clockwise from upper left: Rick's mother, Emily's mother, Rick's brother Larry,
Rick's sister in law Kathy, nephew David and niece Lauren, and niece Christin
Grandchildren update
Top: Dominic and Dante
2nd Row: Bella, Bella and cast, Alexa
Bottom: Dominic and Bella - note numbers
We met up with three of Rick's high school classmates (New Brighton, PA - Class of 1969) in the Sacramento area
Another reunion at the Matsko house in Rancho Murieta
Rick, Donna Jackson, Briggs and Cynthia Matsko, Emily and Jim Jackson around the table
Our traditional Thanksgiving gathering at the M&M Ranch, Creston, California
Rick spent five months in New York City for CNN - click on image for more photos of the city
Click on image for more CNN photos - you don't want to miss this!
Christmas in Carmel
Christmas dinner in Pebble Beach
Jeanne Holmquist, Vicki Zufelt, Niniv Ibrahim, Emily and me, Jennifer Zufelt
Rick went to Syracuse, New York for two speaking engagements. In each audience was an old friend:
John Nolander (top), his Flight Commander in 1972
Paul Staiger, fellow Arabic linguist with whom he served several tours between 1977 and 1991
Rick with one of his original Arabic instructors Niniv Ibrahim (1973) and mentor on things Syrian Samuel Khacho - Pacific Grove, CA
Monterey - Fisherman's Wharf
Emily with the Monterey County SPCA benefit shop volunteers - she has been doing this for six years now
Friends Richard and Deborah Hobley (red sweater) on the left, Nancy Olson front center
At home in Oregon
Snacks on the deck
The "super moon" in May
California grey whale off the deck
American goldfinch in the bird garden
Rick and his 22 pound chinook salmon in the Pacific at the mouth of the Siuslaw River (Reedsport)
Emily served as the Charter President for our Rotary E-Club
Rick speaking at the Rotary District conference in Bend
Visitors
John and Muriel Niehaus - Jim Mills and Beth Myers
Georgianne Dunn - a friend from our Middle East days
Rick and Bernie (her husband) served in Desert Storm together
Bernie was the Army Attache in Jordan when Rick was the Air Attache in Syria - we visited often
In lower photo at the Compass Rose with Doug Hansen, Nancy Fraser and Karen Dowd-Hansen
Andrew Hawksworth - our "tour guide" in York, England
Much too short visit by goddaughter Melissa Weinblatt to our place in Carmel (click image for more photos)
Good friend and fellow Rotarian Suleyman Girit visited us in Carmel while on a business trip from Istanbul, Turkey
The water is a Turkish custom - as water returns, so will you....
Top left - Gary and Jennifer Robertson
Top right - Newcomers to Port Orford Rich Folden and Casey Mackenzie (formerly of Carmel, CA)
Lower left - Ed and Nancy Dowy with Jennifer Bastian Robertson
Lower right - Emily visited former Port Orford residents Donna and Norm Smith in Roseburg
Karen and Roy Butts up from Dragoon, Arizona
Nikki and Pasha - like they could do nothing wrong....
