Chloe and Rob headed over to the Beginners Tree Climb yesterday and learned all about climbing trees. Chloe can’t stop talking about what a great time she had!
Author: GBK Gwyneth
Saturday Afternoon Concert
How fun was that? At the last minute, things came together and Doug from The Jellydots was able to do a nice concert in the park today, on his way between New Mexico and Charlotte! We enjoyed seeing him again (we first met at Austin City Limits last year), hearing him play and wishing him…
A Day At the Museum
The girls have been complaining that we don’t go to the museum enough (eh, I took them to the Field Museum AND Morton Arboretum (2x) last weekend, doesn’t that count?), so they begged to go to the Atlanta History Center today. Once there, I realized they didn’t really want to go to a museum, they…
Planning
Camille has rushed into her history curriculum for next year, not giving me the chance to look at it and figure out where it needs to be supplemented. So even though I had tons of work to do, we sat down and made up schedules for next year using google calendar. I had a look…
Wordless Wednesday
Home Again Lickity Jig
…or however that goes. We got home this morning at 3am after a 15 cop car high speed chase (not chasing me, I promise) on I-75, rumble strip driving through the mountains in TN west of Chattanooga (due to construction on the mountain pass), and various other adventures. I woke up this morning to water…
We Heart Ralph
I’ll have more to say later, but we’re headed out to our third concert of the day now.
Rainy Day Field Day
We are here in Chicago for our annual pilgrimage. The past two summers we have come to Chicago at least once to hear Ralph’s World in concert. Each summer we have spent at least one night in the hotel we are in right now (Typing poolside). I almost feel at home here. We know where…
Storm coming
In IL.
Birthday Cake Video
Best Birthday Gift?
Yeah, she’s a funny girl. Those, in fact, are Wasabi peas. Truly, she loved all her gifts, safari clothes, the building toy Camille picked out for her, but the best was saved for last. Her own Nintendo DS. Yes, they snuck the Wii into the house and now we are officially a modern family. Here’s…
Happy Birthday Chloe!
Chloe is six today! Camille is planning to bake a cake for her sister later today. Chloe is still undecided about what she wants for her special dinner…I suspect it is food from one of her two favorite restaurants — Panahar or Harmony.
Jetlag Ain’t Nice
I’ve slept probably 40 of the past 60 hours. I think I was triple whammied from jetlag, exhaustion and avoidance of catch-up stuff. I got up around 4:30 this morning (which is when Rob and Chloe went to bed), and ticked a bunch of things off my to-do list. So I think that I’ve almost…
Japan Trip, Day 18
A morning spent packing, organizing and washing dishes. Not too rushed, not too exciting. At the Shinjuku station, we got some pastries and coffee drinks for the train. The Narita Express made it super easy to get to the airport! At the airport, we had to go through inspection to get in from the train…
Japan Trip, Day 17
Today we took it quite slow. We hung out in the apartment late, then took the train over to the Toy park in Ginza where Camille bought a dress designer toy. In the afternoon, we went to the “Foreign Language” floor of a large bookstore and bought some manga books. Rob had us go through…
Japan Trip, Day 16
After a long trip of being immersed in a foreign culture, we decided we needed a huge blast of American-ness. What to do? Head to your nearest Disneyland. Yes, we spent the day at Tokyo Disneyland. Not much to say, except it was Disney. In a surreal sort of way. The rides were identical to…
Japan Trip, Day 15
Rob and Chloe went down to breakfast. Camille and I worked on packing up, then I tried to catch up on photos. Checkout time was 10am, but the rain was still pouring down. We walked down the hill to the train, getting soaked in the process. Bought tickets (not a JR train), got on the…
Japan Trip, Day 14
We decided to take it slow and skip breakfast this morning. As we headed out, Chloe really wanted to explore the stairs that headed up into the woods. The stairs went up and up and up. Eventually, they hit a road, and we opted to head down the road. Windy, narrow and wet, it didn’t…
Japan Trip, Day 13
Breafkast was at 8 in the dining room. The room was beautiful, but there was little in the way of vegetarian choices. We had some lettuce, egg and rice. Chloe got a snoopy rice bowl. A short walk down to Tonosawa, then we tried to figure out which bus. Finally the third one that stopped…
Japan Trip, Day 12
While I caught up on photos and email (last internet for a while), Rob ran over to the station to reserve seats on the train to Odawara. Once we were all packed, we “Checked out”. The lady at the ryokan gave each of the girls a nice little Japanese purse. At the station, we again…