The best presents are friends.

All of today was pretty much leading up to a lovely night out with good friends. Vicki had arranged for us to go to dinner at Carrabba’s with them and Allan & Tina. The restaurant was fairly crowded (after all, it was just a week to Christmas and it’s in a mall out-parcel) and noisy. But the food was excellent, we had a good server, and it’s always great to spend time with these wonderful people.

After dinner, we went to Vicki & Roger’s house for coffee, dessert, and more talk. I had been told about a place to geet sticky toffee pudding, and that was our dessert. It was really good - not the same as in the courtyard of a rural pub in England - but more than acceptable in Chattanooga.
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Surtsey, Iceland.
Do you remember the birth of the island of Surtsey? It was in November 1963, when the land rose out of the sea, built up by a volcano. I do remember it, and remember being fascinated by this formation of new land. For me, sailing around this small uninhabited island was one of the high points of our trip.