bye bye istanbul

Bye Bye Istanbul

We bid farewell to Justin and Elle. (Thanks guys for letting us join

you on your round the world adventure. Sorry about the sleep

interruptions!) Their next move is to Prague and some myserious

bargain German ski town offering lift tickets at the rate of 10 runs

Bye bye super friendly Turkish equivalent of TSA.

Hello super tasty Uncle of the Year pecan chocolate pie!

Genevieve's brother Matty decided there ought to be an Uncle of the

Year competition between Paxson Revel's uncles. (He forfeited this

year. But he's a final contender for Yoga master of the year.) Uncle

Nate and Uncle Regan are neck and neck, but Uncle Nate's chocolate

pecan pie, multi-hour rush hour trip to the airport to pick us up, and

4:30 AM wake up and ride back to the airport put him in good standing

during the home stretch! Thanks a lot Uncle Nate and Aunt Nicole! Good

luck with the new jobs and adventures in the Philly region! And

please, hurry up and make some babies for us to teach some bad words

Hello Portland friends Jake, Megan and Lori! Keep kicking ass in

America's coolest city!

We had a few hours in Portland, so we visited our amigos there. We

were extremely jetlagged, (see Boodah. That's about how alert we were

too.) but it was still great to hang out and chat. Jake and Megan just

sold their last house to a rock star and bought a new one. They might

buy a farm on the Oregon coast. Lori is still kicking lots of legal

ass.

Last time we were in Portland for Jake and Megan's wedding, we didn't

take a single photo. So we were pretty proud of ourselves for taking

this one.

We had a spendover in Anchorage before catching one last 3 hour flight

home. HF was smiling on us, as the weather was awesome and it was a

rare ANC-DUT flight that didn't require any fuel stops in King Salmon

or Cold Bay. Uncle Regan and Aunt Nami rallied to put the Uncle of the

Year Award at a dead heat, picking us up at the airport after midnight

and hanging out with us until after 1, then enduring the sounds of us

being up and playing with a wide awake jetlagged Revel Roo from 4AM

until they got up, and then taking the morning off work to hang with

us.

And Revel Roo got to enjoy some quality cousin time with Musashi and

Arashi and the giant dog Musashi recently won. It's always great to

soak up the positive energy of the Team WillYo household!

And that is the end of our first international family adventure!

What's next? Baja, but that doesn't really count. We're hoping we'll

have to lay low for '08 if our procreation plans come through, but

contenders for '09 are Cuba (depending on who's our next president),

Tobago, Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil. We'll be sticking to this

hemisphere to avoid the jetlag issue, which was the most challenging

part of the adventure.

Hello Dutch Harbor!

Snowboarding and sledding! Big mountains! Bald eagles! Stormy seas!

Ahh, it's good to be home!

(Yesterday Dawson snowboarded Ballyhoo for the first powder turns of

the season, and Paxson Revel got to see Santa. Today we took Senor for

some winter time at Summer Bay fun. Incidentally, if we had a

surfboard, Dawson could've caught some small tasty waves with perfect