Greetings from the Petries Our 2004 Christmas Letter See Picture Links Below

OK, so most everyone who might visit this page already knows us. I'm not exactly sure why anyone who doesn't know us might be visiting this page (possibly a student or professional contact?) but howdy, anyway.

So most likely, you already know that we love tea, love to travel, love to read in our library on cozy rainy days, love Oregon, and have a wide variety of interests. Twila likes history, English royalty, horse riding (English), and genealogy. Tracy likes math, ancient history (Mesopotamia area), poetry, cooking.

Twila just finished 6 years of volunteer work on the Alliance Women National Executive Committee as their secretary. She currently serves as the manager of the Short Term Missions Office for the Christian and Missionary Alliance. In this capacity she is able to feed both her desire to do something of significance and to travel around the world. Recent trips have included Thailand, Ecuador, Hong Kong, several countries in Central America, the Balkans, Russia, and several countries in Africa. 

After 16 years at Intel Corporation, Tracy has shifted gears and finishing a Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. In the Spring of 2004, he was shocked and very honored to be nominated for (and win) the Outstanding Graduate Student of the year for the CS department. This award has confirmed a desire to go on to a PhD after completing his MS.

Recent trips in pictures*:

• Ireland and Scotland, 2003 (TBD).
• Asia, 2003
• Africa, 2004
• Central America, 2004
• Ecuador, 2003
• Oregon
• Russia and the Balkans, 2004
• Thailand, 2003

And a few pictures of Colorado.

* Note: Twila takes an average of 400 digital pictures on a trip so the 20-30+ pictures in each of these slots are quite distilled! Click on the thumbnail images and you should see a larger (but still reasonably compressed) image.