Thank you , some days late, sorry.

First of all, thank you for all mail, congratulations and personnel meetings on my 87 years birthday. It´s nice to have so many friends all over the world. It started the evening before on the 16th with coffee and a cake my wife Gun had baked. About 60 people were around in the Base Camp and all was singing for me and drinking coffee. The next day the 17th was my real birthday and we had about 120 people on the Base Camp so there was a lot of work to be done to get the canoes and equipment back to the main building. Later in the evening 60 people went back with the buss to Holland and Belgium after a fine canoe tour. We had severe rain so everything was wet and we open the voyageur room and started a fire. Late in the evening the staff came with a gift and Gun and I had a late fine dinner. One again thanks for all the congratulations.