| My Faviorite Vacation Memories |
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| Montenegro |
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Arrived in Dubrovnik. Picked up our renmtal car and headed south to Montenegro.
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| Dubrovnik |
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| Southern Spain (Seville, Granada and the Alhambra) - January 2009 |
Egypt Vacation - January 2007
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Here's a quick overview of what we visited:
We started out on a three day cruise on the Nile River. Each day we would stop and vitis various temples and other sights. We reached Luxor on New Years Day and flew to Cairo later that evening. We then spent four days in Cairo then flew back to Madrid.
The first was the temple Philae (City of Aswan). This temple was relocated to the island it is on now from a nearby island that is now underwater due to the building of the first Aswan dam.
Second temple was Kom Ombo (city of Kom Ombo). We visited this temple at night. It had the Egyptian calendar and the big pit in the courtyard. Third - temple Edfu (city or Edfu). Early in the morning we took a horse carriage. All our driver couud say was “Hola hola coca cola”. The ceiling was black due to the fires people had made over the years. It had a replica of the sacred boats in the Sancta Sanctorum room (the smallest most inside forbidden for everybody except the pharaoh's and the chief priest). It was crowded, big time. Fourth - temple Karnak (city of Luxor). It is the biggest. It had been enlarged by different Pharaoh’s. The best part was the Hipostilae room with the huge columns and the god of fertility Ammon Man or something like that, represented with a big erection. Fifth - temple Luxor (in Luxor of course). Big statues of Ramses II and an obedisk. Also there was a statue of young Tutankhamum in white. Sixth - temple Habu. The best kept paintings and the relieves are very deep. It was a fortress, on the walls they showed how nicely they treated their prisioners. In Luxor we also went to the Valley of Kings and we saw the Colosus of Nemon (the only remains of a temple) In Cairo we visited the Citatel and the wonderful mosque of Mohamed Ali also known as the White Mosque, the city of the dead, the Copt area with the Orthodox churches and synagogue, the Museum of Cairo with the treasure of Tutankhamum, the market of El Halili (not sure about the spelling) and we cannot forget the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx.
In Memphis we visited the museum and in Sakara we saw the Necropolis (Cemetery) with the first pyramids.
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| The Sphinx and Great Pyramid |
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| John E. Woods
November 3, 1924 to February 10, 2006
John E. Woods, a long-time resident of New Canaan and Norwalk, died Friday, February 10, at Norwalk Hospital.
Known as “Jack,” Mr. Woods, an Army veteran of World War II and a retired business executive, was 81 years old. He was born on November 3, 1924, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended Wesleyan University in Middletown until he was inducted into the Army in 1943. After serving with the famed 10th Mountain Division and training at Camp Hale in Colorado, he was assigned to Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning in Georgia and became a rail transportation officer with the rank of first lieutenant in the Eighth Army in Japan. He was responsible for the operation of a rail transportation office on the Japanese island of Shikoku.
After he was discharged from active duty in June, 1946, Mr. Woods embarked on a career in advertising, working at Young and Rubicam and Cunningham and Walsh in New York City. He also had been a marketing executive at Nestle in White Plains, N.Y. He moved to New Canaan in 1954 and worked as an independent real estate appraiser in Fairfield County and as an associate with Tjader Real Estate.
Mr. Woods also was an avid sailor, skier and outdoorsman. Surviving are his long-time companion, Mary Ann Kask; three sons, John M. Woods of Rye, N.Y, Christopher E. Woods of Westport and Stephen M. Woods of Danbury; a sister, Mary Valintine of Vero Beach, Fla., and five grandchildren.
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| Dad at age 71 |
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| Dad and Mary Ann |
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