Maria Razalan Carle
4 North Theri Court, Columbus GA 31907
Cell Phone 706-573-7706 - Email - MariaCarle@aol.com
November 29, 2003

Aloha Ohana,
How are you? Perry and I are fine and just doing Great! It?s the Holiday Season again! My goodness, where did the year go? Can you imagine, Perry and I have celebrated our First Anniversary on October 22, 2003. Today is Thanksgiving Day! I have a lot to be Thankful For! First of all, I?m Happy here with my New Home and Loving Husband and his Doggie Lance! I have done some redecorating of our kitchen, full of Sunflowers and Sunshine! Now I am on another project, $elling all my $tuff$ on EBay! This has proved very profitable, because I have $old enough thing$ to take a vacation to the West Coast with Perry this Christmas!

We are planning on leaving Columbus and driving our "NEW" Mercury 1989 Grand Marquis to La$ Vega$ and staying at the Venetian Hotel for three nights, from December 21-24, 2003. I still have my house in La$ Vega$, it is rented out to my cousin Shirleen and her Husband Juan Maneja. My Cat Whiskers have been adopted by my Daughter Julie, who still lives in La$ Vega$ and working at the Post Office. My Grand Daughter Sheeba and Husband Fareed are driving my 1996 Ford Taurus around with their two Children, Daughter Yasmere and Son Zhaki, born last December 30, 2002.

Then we plan to leave for San Francisco and visit Perry?s Son Walter and his Grandson Ryan. Stay there for couple of days and spend New Year?s with my Daughter Janie in Lincoln, California, who just got married to Mark Nippert in Reno, Nevada! My youngest Daughter Dianna and her Husband Jonathan Zane lives in Rohnert Park, so we will be visiting them too! My Son Raymond Lacson and Friend Robert lives in Southern California, in Temucula, and drives a Taxi for a living, so I don?t know if he will be able to make it up to Northern California to come and see us while we are up here! Anyway, we might decide to go back home through the southern route or just continue North to Alaska & Go Cruising or Nebraska & visit Aunt Mable & stay at Aunt Betty?s Bed and Breakfast in Ravenna!

I did a lot of traveling this past year, besides flying back and forth to Las Vegas trying to sell my house and moving all my things to Georgia. I took a Panama Cruise with Friends last April. It was awesome! I wished Perry could have come with me, but perhaps in the next year or two, we can go to Italy together. My Brother Patrick and his Wife Chris treated me to a vacation to Maryland last June to visit his three daughters, Charmagne and Keilani, Jolene, the $hoe Guru, and Angie, Frank & Maliya, almost my namesake, who lives in Baltimore. Then we went to visit my Brother Joe and his Wife Jeanne, and their daughters Joy and Jojean and Husband Dave and Twin Sons in Woodbridge, Virginia. Joe and Jeanne is trying to sell their $450,000 house in Virginia, do we have any interested investors? If they do that, they can come and visit us in Columbus, Georgia for a week or two!

My sister Rubie and Husband Robert are going to be Grandparents again! Patrick will be a father soon, while practicing on RJ his nephew, while his brother Joey is away on duty in the Navy like his Dad Robert who is away in Kuwait on active duty with the National Guard as a Cook. Yum! Yum! Sally is doing her thing with her Friends in a Decorating Business in Joplin. Carmen and Family are busy as a Bee as usual. She finally got her computer fixed so for those of you who have not been getting her email, will start getting updated with all the happening in Hawaii and the Namocot Family!