Ray did a couple of shifts in Iraq and while he was there, we got all sorts of wonderful things - from a deck of playing cards showing the "most wanted" to a water pipe. We'd have preferred that he not be there at all, though. We haven't used the waterpipe but it's a great conversation piece!
He took his R&Rs in Thailand and other exotic lands...we reaped the rewards of those trips, too. We received wood carvings, beautiful silk tableclothes (the red one below), shawls and scarves (the blue one in the above picture), and a string of pearls with matching earrings. 
He was only in Africa for a few weeks but managed to bring us back treasures from there, too...crockadile purses and hematite necklaces. 
And on a short business trip to Germany, he bought us glass angel ornaments and porcelin houses. 
This last trip home, Ray brought us each 5 beautiful cups from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. He has a layover there whenever he flies between Kazakhstan (his current work assignment) and ND. The cups, as you might expect, feature paintings by Van Gogh. My sisters told me how nice they were and boy, were they right.
This one is Poppies.
This one Sunflowers.
This is Almond Blossoms.
This is Iris.
This is, I think, Thunderclouds over Wheat Field.
And this is Charli...always trying to get in on the attention!
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