Super Saturday...En Fuego

Lunch at the beach with our close friends Karla and Don, Suzanne's sister and brother-in-law, Linda and Roy, and a colleague, Joanne.

Team Europe Descends on the Costa Del Sol

We organized and hosted a training day and event for Team Europe called Super Saturday...En Fuego for the last Saturday in January. Everyone started arriving during the week and we filled up at least one local hotel with excited colleagues. The weekend started on Friday evening with a dinner for the twelve presenters and leaders who flew in from Australia, the United States and the UK. We took them to our favorite "hole in the wall" restaurant and we all had an absolute blast.

We "visit" our home in Los Angeles!

Whilst enjoying a nine month stay in the villa in Southern Spain on the Costa del Sol from September 1st. 2008 until May 31st 2009, we had several good reasons to visit our home in Los Angeles. We really missed our children and grandchildren, and there was a company training day in Los Angeles on January 10th. We stayed for a week and had a great time.

Here we are with two of our daughters and four of our granddaughters. We had such a good time seeing them after so long away.









These pictures show us with our close friends and extended family at the training event held in Century City close to Beverly Hills.It was wonderful seeing everyone again.

This is such hard work!!

Another tough day at the "office". When winter comes, such as it is, we'll have to actually work indoors!

Our first day of entertaining guests. Here we are enjoying a bottle of wine (or more) with Suzanne's sister Linda and her husband Roy, with our associates Rachel and Robert Stallard with their daughter Daisy.

Return to Spain

After waiting impatiently for four months to return to Spain, this is the view of the pool and the Mediterranean from the living room. It is easy to see why we are excited to be back.
This is the view we have from our master suite balcony. The area on the left is the barbeque and outdoor dining deck built above the garage.
Here it is from a different angle. There is a built in stone and tile table big enough to seat twenty people.

And now a view of the interior, the living and dining rooms. In total the villa has five bedrooms and four bathrooms as well as two large offices on a lower level. We think there is just about enough room for the two of us, but we are anticipating lots of visitors!

Final Night Gala, Waikiki

The final night galas used to always be "black tie". Now we have "theme" nights. Of course as we were in Hawaii, it had to be a Luau. Here we are dressed up for the occasion. As you can see I am sticking to "black tie"

Can you see how reluctant I was to be invited up on stage to dance the hula.

Could life be any more fun?

Conference in Waikiki!

We just came back from spending several days with 1100 of our closest friends and "family" at a company event in Honolulu onWaikiki Beach on the island of Oahu. Above you can see us with some of the other leaders of Team Europe.
On one afternoon, we went to Sam Choy's for lunch and ate Ahi Poke, a well known Hawaian speciality and then went on to the North Shore. Here you can see Suzanne on the beautiful beach.
Here we are with some close friends off to a spectacular gourmet dinner at the best restaurant we have ever experienced, Allan Wong's. We had a seven course tasting menu with matching wines and sake with six of the courses. What a feast for the palette that was.
As you can see we went to and from the restaurant in style. These pictures were actually taken on the way there. We were even happier on the way back!!!