{"id":902,"date":"2010-06-27T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:43","slug":"summer-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Summer is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/001x5.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/003x2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-909\" title=\"003x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/003x2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/003x2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/003x2.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John and Jimmi at the Quarterdeck<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s summer now&#8230;and boy, can we feel it. Hot and humid here in DC!<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, John and I drove up to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to visit Joyce. It&#8217;s about four hours to get up there, but a pretty, green drive. We had a nice visit with him and Carol, and also got to see Carol&#8217;s mom, Emma&#8230;plus two of Carol&#8217;s children came over who we had not met before, Jennifer and Jeff. Nice day of catching up. Joyce seems to be doing pretty well and looked very good. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/ramona.crippen\/VisitWithJoyce#\" target=\"_blank\">here for photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We were so happy to get to see Juarez friends on Wednesday! Roger, our NIV Chief, and my favorite local staff supervisor, Juan, were in town for a conference, so we organized a happy hour at Car Pool in Ballston. We had a great turnout, and also got to see two ELO&#8217;s from Juarez, Ryan and Kerry. I really miss Juan &#8211; he is just super. He&#8217;s the proud dad of a new baby, their third, who was born three weeks ago. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/ramona.crippen\/CuidadJuarezGetTogether#http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/ramona.crippen\/CuidadJuarezGetTogether#\" target=\"_blank\">here for happy hour photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was off to happy hour again on Thursday night, this time a going-away for our good friend Jimmi who is heading to Calgary for her next assignment. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/ramona.crippen\/JimmiSGoingAwayHappyHour#\" target=\"_blank\">here for photos<\/a>. We also took her out for a fun crab dinner at The Quarterdeck on Friday night. The weather was nice enough to sit outside, which was amazing. The Quarterdeck was great &#8211; it reminded me of The Oyster Bar in Little Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning I drove up to Maryland to get my hair cut by my Druze lady. I got home in time to watch soccer in the afternoon, then we went to visit with our friends Della and Robert who live in this apartment complex. We were in A-100 with Robert; they are going from Santo Domingo to Peru and are here a short time for training. They have the cutest new baby, Indy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/010x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-907\" title=\"010x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/010x-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/010x-300x222.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/010x.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>With Juan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/004x1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"004x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/004x1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>With Joyce<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 John and Jimmi at the Quarterdeck It&#8217;s summer now&#8230;and boy, can we feel it. Hot and humid here in DC! Last Sunday, John and I drove up to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to visit Joyce. It&#8217;s about four hours to get up there, but a pretty, green drive. 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