Since our successful trip to Kagoshima in 2008 the FAM - coined by Jess - agreed to dedicate our year end vacation time as our 'Annual Family Sojourn'. I welcome that as everyone can put aside the stress, the frustrations at work, the family feud, the sibling rivalry to return to being a nucleus of meaningful and loving purposes. It is not a dream, I really want that, and it will happen as we all age a little. A democratic process - even though Mom & Dad foot the bill - the vote goes to 1-week in the Maldives, plus New Year's in Singapore on the way back. We left Hong Kong mid afternoon on Xmas day, transitting Singapore, and arrived around midnight the same day. Jess, Terri & Fergus hold diving licenses and they have convinced Andrea, who fears sharks to the n-th degree and who has problems watching the Jaws series, to go for hers. Maldives is also a location Dora & I have fond memories. We spent our honeymoon here after touring Sri Lanka, at the outer most atoll of the Maldives archipelago, back in 1982! Here we are the FAM at our first breakfast. The shades 'are to hide those tired eyes' I am told, mostly from partying and last minute packing at home where we will vacate upon return, to make way for a major renovation project. Except for the overweight patriarch, it is rather a handsome group, don't you think?
Since our successful trip to Kagoshima in 2008 the FAM - coined by Jess - agreed to dedicate our year end vacation time as our 'Annual Family Sojourn'. I welcome that as everyone can put aside the stress, the frustrations at work, the family feud, the sibling rivalry to return to being a nucleus of meaningful and loving purposes. It is not a dream, I really want that, and it will happen as we all age a little. A democratic process - even though Mom & Dad foot the bill - the vote goes to 1-week in the Maldives, plus New Year's in Singapore on the way back. We left Hong Kong mid afternoon on Xmas day, transitting Singapore, and arrived around midnight the same day. Jess, Terri & Fergus hold diving licenses and they have convinced Andrea, who fears sharks to the n-th degree and who has problems watching the Jaws series, to go for hers. Maldives is also a location Dora & I have fond memories. We spent our honeymoon here after touring Sri Lanka, at the outer most atoll of the Maldives archipelago, back in 1982! Here we are the FAM at our first breakfast. The shades 'are to hide those tired eyes' I am told, mostly from partying and last minute packing at home where we will vacate upon return, to make way for a major renovation project. Except for the overweight patriarch, it is rather a handsome group, don't you think? 
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