Our friends joined us at the Phoenix Scottish Festival, we got to wear our kilts and bought some new ones. We also got to eat some tasty Scottish foods! We watched a little bit of the Scottish Highland Games, but didn’t take any pictures of it.
The event is pretty fun, there are a lot of shops and music and clans, and there is always british cars (minis, so Jaime was into it), and even some horses.
As part of our yearly ritual, since 2020, we went to Gallifrey One; The Doctor Who convention held in Los Angeles. It being our 3rd time going, we have started recognizing many people… and being recognized as well.
We spent the whole day, taking our time to get out to everyone’s houses to pick them up and heading over to the Renaissance festival. We enjoyed taking things slowly at a comfortable pace and
got to see everything we wanted to and ended the day closing out the park.
We met up with our friends in Tempe and some of our party participated in the Tempe Library Fancon costume competition. Afterwards, we split off and had dinner for Allison’s birthday. While I didn’t grab too many photos, here are a couple with people fairies I got selfies with.
Earlier this month, my boss had to go meet with his boss in Tampa… We convinced him to do a leadership offsite. There is a lot of stuff we needed to talk about. So many things going on in the world and we think there may be some rough seas ahead. I’m not looking forward to the future if things go bad. The best way to counter it, is to start planning now.
My buddy Don happened to transfer in PHX and we flew to Tampa together
I’m so glad I got to see this, I saw it in some ads on Facebook, I had to facetime my wife and show her!
This flamingo is just magnificent!
 We bowled for team building, I haven’t bowled in some time! We obviously let the bosses win, LOL |
 During this trip, I learned how to do the spin thing on the ball! I was able to get a strike doing it! |
Everyone wanted to be in my selfie!
We concluded our offsite, we did a lot of hard work and also had a great time together
While we were done, I still had some time before my flight, so I did go ahead and meet up with my Marine Corps brother, John. We went to bootcamp together back in the early 90s. It’s good to stay in touch with people.
My friends are maintaining the bit where we meet at least once a month to have lunch and catch up on life and work.
It was a beautifully set up event for New Year’s Eve, we had a Sofisticated party (misspelled on purpose) because it was ghetto fabulous! I over-dressed for sure but that’s cool, I don’t mind putting on the nice clothes here and there. After the dinner we played a murder mystery and that was a lot of fun.
I’m going to be moving my blog to this website instead of https://www.carmeloandjaime.com/Â I think I will be letting that domain expire.
Anyhow, there are the photos from the event.
We had a wonderful time with friends we love, experiencing Kwanzaa!
Had an awesome Christmas!! Got to video chat with Pat, Courtney, and Mercy. Got to spend so great time with Damien, Jaime, Brandee, Thomas, William, & Amanda. Dinner was amazing!! Smoked Turkey and Prime Rib?! Chef’s kiss to my Jaime!
We also got a little visit from our friends, Brian and Allysen! So much to be grateful for!!
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