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Happy Holidays - 2025

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2025. The last year of the first quarter of the 21st century. Stare at that sentence to see if what we just wrote is correct, and then let your mind spin and break it down. Now, on with the letter! We started off 2025 in Kentucky, the Bourbon state, and it was a fitting theme for the year - there was lots that happened that could have you looking for a drink - both good and bad!  Lots of bad S going down in the world, lots of good S happening in our personal lives, and hell, there's a lot of good S to try out! We did a lot of #castrotravels this year, including 2 trips to South America.  Our trip to Columbia in February had a lot of food, culture, street art - and about 24 hours of staring at ceilings and toilet bowls.  Probably something we ate.  Shout out to Nolan for saving us by buying local gatorade and crackers. And shout out to Becca for her continued reminder to share the bad parts of our travels as well as the good.   In May we went to Costa Rica w...
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Happy Holidays 2024!

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“ I know there's been pain this year, but it's time to let it go Next year, you never know But for now, Merry Christmas” -Ed Sheeran Was listening to Holiday music today and this line struck me as a great way to start this letter.  I imagine 2024 was like t hat for you, as it was for us.  But for now, Merry Christmas, and let’s start this letter! Hope you enjoyed the holiday fill-in-the-blank quiz, and it gave you something to contemplate while waiting for your phone to charge, or while taking that break from your many holiday parties or guests. We’ve included the answer key in case you are one of those people you can’t get the thought of not having the answer complete out of your head.   As you can see from sleuthing our puzzle, we tried to squeeze as much out of (or into) 2024 as we could. Thanks to some friends' weddings, we were able to visit Phoenix, Roanoke, Canton, Charleston, Philadelphia Stacie a...
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Happy Holidays 2023!

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Here's a look at what the completed puzzle looks like! IT'S THE RETURN OF THE  CASTRO CHRISTMAS LETTER FOR 2023!! It seems like we have fallen into a pattern of only writing these letters every other year.  At the risk of having this become the Bret Saberhagen of holiday letters, we will apologize for last year’s gaffe, and revive the letter for 2023.  We are grateful for all of the opportunities that this year afforded us, and as we look back on the last 12 months, it’s really surreal to think about all the adventures we were able to go on.  In all, we visited 6 new countries.  If you're interested in checking out some of our photos from the year, you can see them here . Streets of Copenhagen In January, we took the MLK weekend break to visit Copenhagen with our good friend Nolan.  We tacked on a cold, blustery day trip to Sweden while we were there.  It was just a short train ride over the border. Our Summertime #CastroTravels took us to Japan to cel...
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