We left our southern "summer" behind and arrived back to "winter" on a warm afternoon in Utah on January 31, 2010, exactly one year after leaving it for our Chilean sabbatical. Our Pucónino pussycat, Wellington, also endured the three flights with us. He traveled in his air cargo kennel to Los Angeles, where we collected him with our luggage, cleared immigration, then flew on with us to Salt Lake City where he will become our "gringo gato" at the Holladay homestead. Henry joins the ninth grade in progress at Mount Olympus Junior High, so we will soon be back into the usual routine and, sadly, thoughts of our year in Chile will begin to fade along with many of the friendships we have with the people we met there.
We will continue to post updates about these distant friends to this blog and promise to fill in the missing events from our extensive travel over the last months, so please check back here and look back occasionally to see those older photos and updates, too.
One of our first excursions (after getting some sleep) was up Little Cottonwood Canyon to Alta and Snowbird ski resorts. We collected our season passes and headed out into the familiar terrain, once again relishing the spectacular Utah scenery and superb skiing here in our own backyard. 
Susan's ski group, the Wild Women of the Wasatch, welcomed her back wearing dresses of Utah's "sister-wives", the polygamous pioneer women who tamed this territory.
Hello, Utah. We're happy to be home once again.
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