This Time Last Year

You may have been wondering where we have been. The truth is, we've been battling the Computer Death Disease, which has claimed Eric's laptop, which is the primary blog-posting device. Some sort of mysterious ailment has befallen the beloved laptop, leaving us temporarily unable to post anything (not to mention do other stuff, like write the 20-page paper due tomorrow). It has also put a stop to our photo uploading of Eli, since the camera hooks up to the laptop too.

There is hope that the laptop will be resurrected today or tomorrow, but who knows. In the meantime, we thought it'd be fun to remember what we were doing one year ago--back in the dark recesses of time before we had a kid. Back then, we could do things like sleep through the night and go places on the spur of the moment--and travel. This time last year, we had just returned from a trip to Italy with Eric's church. We visited Venice, Pisa, Sorrento, Amalfi, Florence, Pompeii, and Rome on an 11-day whirlwind tour. It was amazing in every possible way. So below you will find a web album of photos from that trip, taken in the year 1BE--Before Eli.

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