When I said the kids could sleep in on Friday I didn’t think they would wake up at 11:00. But that is what jetlag will do to you. I was up by 8:30 and headed out for a walk. I discovered crowds (indicating no one else had slept in); the Italian version of mall kiosks […]
For the second hotel in a row we have a rather trying internet connection. Sometimes we can see sites we want, other times we can’t. And we definitely can’t read articles on washingtonpost.com so we don’t know the details or Strasburg’s injury or Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.
But more importantly, we can’t post pictures. We hope […]
Our arrival in Florence was horrible. Well, actually not exactly our arrival since that was pretty perfect as the train was great and I quickly found an information stand with a map and directions to our hotel, so it was the stepping out of the train station that was horrible: the rain was coming down […]
Our morning was going great, despite the grumbling about getting up too early, until we stepped off the subway at the Coliseum and Scotty realized his wallet was lost. He said “lost” at first, but he was just in denial; the rest of us immediately used the word “stolen”.
We think it was the two […]
For our first afternoon in Rome I’d planned a walkabout – a swing by the Termini and then various plazas and other sights so we’d have a feel for seeing the city without having to be anywhere at any particular time so if our plane was late it didn’t matter. This walk, despite having studied […]
Usually Socks are Lucky are underfoot. But they weren’t this morning when it was time to go to the kennel. And they didn’t appear when I called them for food. This was suspicious so I looked all over the house from basement to our upstairs bathroom. Still no Socks and Lucky. The kitten was out […]
Just in time for our trip the New York Times thoughtfully put together a “36 Hours in Florence, Italy” piece. Sadly, it isn’t really what I need. Instead of focusing on sights and bike rides and places to sample olive oil it details lots of interesting places to eat and we aren’t going for the […]
John and I spent yesterday at Assateague and I learned two important things. First, bring a friend to the beach with John. Second, don’t wear a tankini to boogie board in.
The friend is useful for keeping John happily occupied while I read my book. However, the waves were so rough that I would have […]
Our family dinners are smaller these days as we are losing kids to camp. Last week Caitlin went to field hockey camp and this week John is at boy scout camp. It was Caitlin’s third year at the same camp and John’s first year at Goshen so our comfort levels with them being gone are […]