2013 - The Year Of

• Boston Marathon bombing
• Snowstorm on May 2, with 13.5 inches of snow. By the time it was all done on May 3, it was 15.5 inches.  Before that, the total of all May snow in Rochester since records were kept was 4.2 inches.  So this was, as far as anyone knows, unprecedented.
• "The Sequester" - automatic federal government spending cuts
• Three women, each abducted and held captive for more than 10 years, escape captors in Cleveland. Story. 
• Oklahoma Tornado kills at least 51, hitting school and hospital and more
• Minnesota passes the law to make Same-Sex Marriage legal 
• US Government shutdown
• Obamacare (Affordable Health Care Act) starts 
• Navy Yard shootings 
• Nairobi Mall Attack kills dozens. 
• Typhoon Haiyan slams into Philippine Islands 
• Nelson Mandela dies 
• Trips to: Turkey - Istanbul and Ankara;  England: London and Milton Keynes;  Minneapolis (2x? 3x?); Japan: Tokyo and Beppu; Australia: Sydney and Melbourne; New Zealand: Auckland; China: Beijing, Hefei, Nanjing, Wuhan, Hangzhou;  USA: Orlando (2x); Boston; Toronto; St. Louis; Birmingham, Alabama; Austin, Texas (x2? x3?); Louisville, Kentucky (stayed in Clarksville, Indiana);
• Sherry's trip to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to present to NASA
• Sherry presented at a conference in LaCrosse for the therapeutic glove she designed
• 16 states in 10 days, including 6 states in New England Sherry had not visited before (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine) leaving just Oregon and Alaska on her "All 50 States" list. 
• James born
• Troy teaches in Rochester at Willow Creek
• Our good friend, Sue Heaton, dies after 16 years with cancer.
• Forge of Empires - the online "Civilization-esque" game was a major distraction for me