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With Scott’s move to Vancouver and our reunion in March, 2009 certainly proved to be a busy year for us. As we will not get the opportunity to see all our family and friends this Christmas, we thought we would send a few snapshots, to show our year at a glance. As the famous Chinese proverb explains “a picture is worth ten-thousand words”.
We started the year, sharing the New Year with Ross, Laura and the kids in Washington DC, seeing all the sights of the USA capital. After this holiday we were apart until early March when Scott moved to Vancouver and so February saw Scott visiting family and friends all over the UK. The 28th February was Scott’s last day at Mercedes-Benz UK after twelve years of service; he celebrated this by undertaking a boy’s road trip to Lands End.
On arriving in Vancouver, we enjoyed spring by sharing many laughs and drinks with Anthony on his travels to Canada in April and skiing on Grouse Mountain, just before the snow melted for an unseasonably warm summer. We returned to Poets Cove on Pender Island to celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary. Then by a stroke of luck, Mercedes-Benz Canada advertised the same role Scott had left in the UK and he proved himself worthy to start in June.
This summer we had the pleasure of many trips and activities. Most notably, Emily and Kris’s wedding on the 31st July provided a perfect reason to visit the UK and complete a whistle-stop tour of all our family and friends. The wedding day was an amazing event and what a great couple Emily and Kris make – all the happiness to them for the future. On returning to Canada, we explored various places including wine tasting in the Okanagan vineyards, zip-lining in Whistler for an amazing adrenalin rush and weekend trips to Vancouver Island. Locally, Scott decided to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, by skydiving in August, which proved to be exhilarating to say the least.
September was all about Las Vegas where we met up with Emily and Kris to enjoy the best of Sin City, including drinks at a minus five degree ice bar. In October, Nancy enjoyed a short but sweet trip to Ireland for Claire and Gregg’s wedding and said hello to some UK-based friends. A big thank you to everyone who supported the We’re with Bob! Team, which helped Nancy raise over $12,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Nancy will be in touch soon regarding her next feat – a ½ marathon jog for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society followed by a skydive in the same afternoon of her 35th birthday!
In 2010, a variety of people are planning to visit us in Vancouver, including Anthony in early January and Emily and Kris in the spring. The city hosts the Winter Olympics in February and the Olympic rings are already lit in the harbour. We have a trip planned to visit Betty (Nancy’s grandmother) in Palm Springs, California in mid-March, which means we can experience the Indian Wells tennis tournament. The 10K run challenge reaches its conclusion by the start of May as well. We are especially looking forward to meeting the new branches of the Shears family tree, with Ross and Laura, Craig and Ra’anaa both expecting in April/May time. So there are many things to look forward to already in 2010.
We are always thinking about our family and friends dotted around the globe and keen to hear from you. Feel free to contact us via telephone, email or Skype. You can also keep up-to-date with us on our blog: http://codenamewfns.blogspot.com/
Best wishes to you and your family over the holiday period and hope 2010 brings you all that you desire. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Love and Best Wishes
Scott and Nancy xo
2 comments:
Nancy thinks BM (aka Bill Murray) was Bob Marks. Not quite the same thing or just lost in translation!
I got completely the wrong end of the stick. I thought N xo was Scott posting a time of 5K in 40mins and i thought anonymous was simply asking him how he did it so fast "BMX?"
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