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I hope everyone had an enjoyable New Years Eve celebration. I spent mine in Newport News, VA and we had a blast as a large group of Noonatics journeyed to Virginia to ring in the New Year with Peter and his band of Hermits.

I’ve been on the road for 2 weeks and right now I’m stuck in Chicago tryin’ to get home because the C-Town airport had a power outage. So I thought I’d drag out my Mac and write this blog.

Being home for 3 full weeks made this Christmas season a special one. I was able to spend some quality time with family and friends. And then on New Years day I flew to Las Vegas and celebrated Christmas with Kellie for a week.

The Akron Agora reunion was a blast….so many bands from the 80’s reuniting to play a few songs. Though “Love Affair” did not perform as a band, Wes Coolbaugh and I did go up and do an impromptu version of “Whole Lotta Love” and then with the rest of his old band “Elysian Field”, we performed our 1980 hit “Mama Sez”. Thank you Chris, Pat, Diane & Bob for performing it with us. If you’d like to hear our performance that night, visit my Facebook page, go to my wall, and keep paging down through older posts until you find the 2 songs. Below are a couple of pics from that night.

“Singin’ “Whole Lotta Love”"

“Wes & I doing our 1980 hit “Mama Sez” w Bob on bass”

I have to say though, the best part of this holiday season was the surprise 90^th birthday party for my Dad. My Mom arranged everything and my Dad was completely surprised. I’m truly blessed to have such wonderful parents. With that, I’ll close with a pic of my parents and I at the party just after my Dad blew out the birthday candles. Cheers!!!

“with Mom & Dad”