Worth At Least FIve Thousand Words

HEIDI CELEBRATED A REALLY BIG BIRTHDAY OCTOBER 19TH - SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A SIX AND AN EIGHT. EVEN THE STAFF AT THE TAJ HELPED US CELEBRATE!

Lee and Heidi have been having much too much fun, staying up much too late, eating much too well and otherwise enjoying life at the Taj Exotica Hotel resort too much to bother spending much time at all editing digital images or otherwise tending to the care and feeding of this blog.

So, just to give you a flavor of what's been going on around here, Lee has assembled a set of collages illustrating some of the wonderful events surround Jeanine and Kevin's wedding festivities (knowing full well that each is worth a minimum of a thousand words)...

REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN CLICK ON ANY PICTURE TO VIEW A LARGER VERSION

MONDAY HEIDI AND LEE HIRED A CAR AND DRIVER TO VISIT OLD GOA, A WORLD HERITAGE SITE WHERE WE VISITED A SERIES OF FOUR CHUIRCHES BUILT BY THE PORTUGUESE IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEEN CENTURIES. AMONG THEM WAS THE CHURCH IN WHICH ST. FRANCIS XAVIER IS BURIED. VISITING HIS MEMORIAL CHAPEL WHEREIN HIS BODY IS KEPT IN A CHRYSTAL COFFIN HAS LONG BEEN ON LEE'S "BUCKET LIST" ...

THE BRIDE'S PARENTS HOSTED A SPLENDID PARTY MONDAY EVENING AT THEIR BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED TRADITIONAL STYLE BED-AND-BREAKFAST IN NEARBY MARGAO

THE CLEVELAND CONTINGENT TURNED OUT DRESSED TO THE NINES IN THE REQUESTED INDIAN ATTIRE

TUESDAY WE SPENT MUCH OF THE DAY CRUISING A NEARBY RIVER, ENJOYING THE SUN AND FEASTING ON FRESHLY CAUGHT FISH, SIPPING WINE, WATCHING THE BOATS AND TALKING WITH FRIENDS AND NEW ACQUAINTANCES ALIKE

THE BRAEMAR BUNCH AGAIN TURNED OUT IN FORCE, THIS TIME VERY CASUALLY DRESSED!