The Adventures of BJ and Tony Morris
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Christmas 1998 It has been too
long since we have heard from you. We want to
know how you are! Okay, well tell you
how we are and all about our adventures first, then you can write back and tell us about
yours! We have both had
changes in our jobs this year. Tony has
remained at Delta, but changed departments a few times.
This year, he has been in Inflight, Flight Operations, and is currently on
loan to Delta Technology working on the Year 2000 project.
He is carrying a pager now (he says, So they can page me in case the
year 2000 comes early). He has really
enjoyed being back in the geeky world of technology.
I am still with Worldspan and have been a Project Manager in the Coverage
department since February. The Coverage
department never closes. They let me work weekdays
though, so thats good. I am not at the
Galleria anymore, so thats bad. But I get to
carpool with Tony again, so thats The most
important event that has ever happened to anyone in the history of the world was my 40th
birthday in July! It was very well
advertised. My friend JeRie made me 30
buttons touting how many shopping days were left until my birthday! In addition to all of the attention, I was
showered with gifts and parties (complete with surprise guests from my past - including
Elvis) all month long. The president of our
company even got in on the fun by calling to wish me a happy birthday. Tony awarded me the coveted title of Miss
Taken for Old. We continue to
add trips to our travelogue. This year, we
made 4 trips to visit our money in St. Louis, our favorite gambling destination. A train takes you right from the airport to the
gambling boats. We love to play blackjack. I like it mainly because the tables all say BJ on
them! We have almost
gotten too old to ski. When you get too old
to ski, it doesnt mean you are afraid youll break a hip, it means you are now
too lazy to lug the equipment around. My
friends and I borrowed some children to take skiing in January so they could carry our
equipment. I took my nephew, Jonathan. He was in awe of the mountains in Salt Lake City. He saw the snow up real close & did some
unintentional helicopter like maneuvers. My
favorite line from the trip was after we toured the Morman Tabernacle where he kept
calling the missionaries nuns. He
indignantly told me that other religions besides just the Jews have nuns. Tony & I went back to Salt Lake in February
& skied a couple of days, but a snow storm made us cut the trip short. Non-revs start getting nervous about cancelled
flights and closed airports during snow storms. We
made it out just before the airport closed for 2 days. I always like to
follow a ski trip up with a beach vacation. Our
annual trek to Braves Spring Training in West Palm Beach was not hindered by the fact that
the Braves have moved their training camp to Orlando.
We werent really there for the baseball anyway. A group of eleven of us went to Del Rey Beach and
had a wonderful time. I took two
business trips in April. One was to
Minneapolis & Kansas City to meet with two of Worldspans owners, TWA &
Northwest. The other, I conveniently
scheduled to a Users Group meeting in Denver around the same time that my friend
Angel (who lived in Denver at the time) was due to have her baby. Little Anna was born shortly before I arrived
& I got to spend the week holding & rocking her.
Older brother Jake, then almost 2, was glad to let me hold Anna so he could
command his parents attention. Tony & I
decided to practice for retirement, so twice this year we rented motor homes. In April, we picked up a home in Oakland and drove
it down the coast of California. We stopped
in Halfmoon Bay, and Monterrey before we turned inland to Paso Robles, Las Vegas, Zion
Canyon, Grand Canyon, Sedona, and finally Phoenix. In
August, we motor homed from Idaho Falls to Palisades, Ogden, Bryce Canyon, Lake Powell,
and Sedona before meeting friends in Phoenix. We
think we are going to like retirement. We had
a few problems with the rentals though. In
the last one, the refrigerator didnt work, so we cleverly decided to use it as an
ice box. This worked well until we rounded a
curve and the weight of the ice block pushed the door open and the ice fell on the
container of sour cream exploding it all over the motor home. Tony
has been shopping for motor homes. He went to
Sacramento in September and we went to Dallas in November to look at some used homes. While in Dallas, we got to visit with Brad (a
former Delta buddy) and his family. I did a couple
of family vacations this year. In May, my
parents, my sister, my niece, and I spent two days in Orlando at Universal Studios. My parents tried to resist our offers to rent
wheel chairs, but when they finally In
July, I got to try kayaking for the first time when my sisters family invited me to
join them on their I am worried
about my golf game. I have moved up another
division. I am now in the 3rd Weve had
another fun year. Hope you have too. Merry Christmas and may God bless |