Less than two months to go

I can't believe we've got less than two months until the Ties Trip. Has anyone started doing any "gift" shopping? I've picked up a couple of things, but haven't really focused on this. I am hoping to see some posts on the blog with ideas for what to bring. We still have not been billed for the tickets--has anyone else?

I hope you'll all respond and tell us about your families before the trip is upon us!

Chris

Where is everyone?

I'm hoping the dearth of postings is because all of the Fall Ties trip participants except us are on vacation! If you respond to the "invitation", I can set your status to "administrator", which allows everyone to post pictures, edit the blog, etc. I did not intend for this to be the "Conroy" site, but, rather, a site where we could all introduce ourselves and our families, and talk about the trip. For instance, we still haven't been billed for our tickets; is that true for everyone? Pat addressed this in a fairly recent message, but we still haven't seen anything. Final payment is due in just a couple of weeks, I think.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you and meeting all of you. Emily and I are very excited about the upcoming trip. For the other Massachusetts family, do you know if we're traveling together to NY?

Chris

Administrators

I realized that when new authors are added to the list, they are automatically identified as "guests". Clicking on "guest" changes it to "administrator", so anyone who is already an administrator can do this. So once you're logged in, if you find you can't do anything except post, you need to have your permissions updated from "guest" to "administrator". If I see anyone listed, I'm changing them to administrator. I think everyone has to have/create a Google blog account in order to sign on, and I think this is what Google calls a "Team blog". If you're having any difficulty, you can email me at conroyc@bc.edu and I can try to help.

Chris

Welcome to the Ties Trip Fall 2007 blog

Emily and I are participating in the Fall 2007 Korean Ties trip. When we received the latest informational mailing from Pat (in which she encouraged the group to communicate and provided email addresses), we thought it would be fun to set up a blog and try it out as a mechanism for communicating as a group. Since only two members of our family are making this trip, I wanted to introduce all of our family. I'm just beginning to learn how to blog, and I haven't quite managed the photo loading very well, but Kevin and I are the proud parents of Emily, Robert, Kevin, and Andy. We adopted our children through Wide Horizons for Children in Massachusetts, and this is the first trip to Korea for any of us.

I set the blog up so that all of the email addresses I have are "administrators" and can, therefore, do whatever you want to the blog. I hope you will all post pictures, tell us about your families, raise questions about the trip, etc. Maybe our tour guide will give us helpful tips about packing, the weather, gift ideas, etc. Em and I are really looking forward to meeting all of you and traveling with you.

Meet the Conroys

Chris and Kevin (left); Kevin (19) and Andy (15) (below) Rob (22) and Emily (24) (bottom)