Category Archives: Travel

Montmartre & Sacre Coeur

Such a gorgeous area of the city.  I think the pictures speak for themselves. PS–I like the ease of the WordPress Gallery (shown above)–what do you think?  Do you prefer the YouTube slide show (which will be better once we … Continue reading

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Dear Amsterdam,

How do I love thee? Let me count the whys: § Gorgeous flowers at every bend § Everyone bikes–forget cars, it’s a biking or canal town

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Where there is a will, there’s a way

Red playground.  Silver playground.  Green playground.  Each playground in our neighborhood in Manhattan is nick-named by it’s color.  After two days of travelling with a 3 year old through Paris without any jumping, climbing or sliding, or even a view … Continue reading

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Go kick dirt!

After an entire day of this: and this

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*whoosh* and it’s all gone; nothing left but the memories. . .

Our day at the Tour de France in pictures. . .

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Gorgeous Picture and Landscape

(courtesy of this New York Times article) All I gotta say is wow! How beautiful is that! This is from an article in the New York Times about luxury train travel, and how it is making a big comeback in … Continue reading

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The D-Family takes on D.C.

All expenses paid vacation– nice hotel in Georgetown, good food, and fun combined with some work at the ALA conference at the DC conference center. Ava in Rose Park in her favorite car And again taking her favorite car Dan … Continue reading

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U-Haul: Do Not Use Them

So we finally are getting settled in at our new place. I’ll blog about the whole move, but I wanted to write a separate post solely to criticize U-Haul and what they made me endure last Saturday, something which apparently … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday – Arr! I’m A Viking!

Please check out Wordless Wednesday and Five Minutes for Mom for other Wordless Wednesdays.

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Adventures in New York City Part II: Stranded

Last Saturday, Jaime and I went to New York City for a simple day trip. As the previous post showed, it was anything but. As the title of this post shows, the story is not over.

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