Tell the truth--how many blog mates of mine thought a) it was impossible for me not to blog OR comment, or b) I must've died?

Before when I posted this about a year ago):

After:

 

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Is it obvious where we were?  Details on the "what we were doing" to come...for now, it's been a long...long travel day...16 hours to get home (which is ever so sweet right now).  No trains, but plenty of planes and automobiles, and my bone-weary body is at odds with my Mountain-time-back-to-Eastern internal clock.

Thanks to those of you who kept my blog company WITHOUT a contest...:).  Can't wait to see what the blogosphere's been up to while I've been gone ANYTHING to avoid the avalanching MOUNTAIN of laundry that awaits.