my journey, destination unknown
A few weeks ago, we were fortunate enough to travel to Latvia, Spain, Germany, France, and Luxembourg … thanks to the third annual European Union Open House Day. We started out one block from our apartment, at the EU Delegation offices. I had always wanted to go inside, and was happy for the chance! A…
By the time Camille was “this many,” she knew her impressionists. She could tell a van Gogh from a Monet. She had been to Giverny and stood on Monet’s bridge. Chloe suffers from second child syndrome. We have not exposed her nearly enough to our favorite art, poor thing. A couple of weeks ago when…
Earlier this month, we were in Brooklyn for a weekend. On Monday, we checked out of our hotel and (finally!?!) found a good bagel place. The weather was grey and rainy, so we really were not in the mood to explore places by foot outdoors, especially while carrying all our conference swag, our clothes and…
I woke up early on Sunday and tried to catch up on all the videos and photos I had taken on Saturday. But by 11am, the kids were still asleep and I was more than ready to get out of the hotel and do something. Unfortunately, the drizzle turned to rain…we found breakfast (the girls…
For the third year in a row (2007 and 2008), we headed to Brooklyn to the gathering of the “kindie” music scene, now called now called kindiefest. What fun it was to see so many of our favorite musicians and our online friends all gathered in one spot! The girls got the chance to participate…
Okay, I’m no DC local. And I have not seen nearly all that DC has to offer. But I have found a blog called, obviously enough, DC Like A Local. Not only have I agreed with a lot of the advice provided, but I have also found useful tidbits of information from the posts. Things…
Besides going to the White House Easter Egg Roll and taking the bus to Vienna to see a kids’ show (more on that coming soon), we’ve also taken in a few more of the sites of DC. I’m in the midst of a documentation release and the weather has been not so nice, so we…
Not long after the sun rose, we started down Pennsylvania Ave towards the White House, stopping for coffee and muffins along the way. We joined the throngs of families and headed towards the entrance gate and security check. It looked exactly like entering the Austin City Limits Festival, except that we had to go through…
We are so excited! I spent most of the day reloading a web page. That’s not exciting. But that obsessive task led to the acquisition of four tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll. We get to go to the White House! And hear music! And participate in fun events! But mostly, we are…
A new day, a new DC museum! Today we headed out to the National Building Museum. I’d been a long time ago and heard that kids enjoy it, so we decided to give it a try. As we entered, we were greeted with the pandemonium of the preparation for a big gala, the March dinner…
After we left Independence National Historic Park on Sunday, we walked west along Market street. It’s a busy street of stores and indoor malls, not as appealing as the streets we walked on the day before. However, we stopped in at the Reading Terminal Market, which was a really cool market. We left there, heading…
After swimming, packing, breakfast and checking out, we walked over to Independence National Historic Park. We first went into the area around Independence Hall. We didn’t have tickets to go into the hall itself, but we went into one of the other halls where we saw some information about the various documents that had been…
After attending the midday concert at World Cafe Live, we headed out to walk to The Franklin Institute. It was a nice walk, and fun to see the Phill train station from outside for a change (we’ve been through it on a train many times). The Institute was full of great rooms of wonderfully fun…
On this the first day of spring, the girls and I headed out to see what signs we could spot. The weather could not decide if it was still winter or time to be spring. One minute the sun was shining and the wind was quiet, then the clouds would blow over and the wind…
But not a page to read. On Monday afternoon, after returning from Baltimore, we headed out to the Library of Congress to take a tour and learn more about what’s there. We also planned to meet my grad school officemate and his family. As we walked to to the Jefferson Building from the metro stop,…
Our ZipCar reservation started at 10:30, so we had a little bit of time his morning to get breakfast and get packed for our overnight trip to Baltimore. We ended up with a bright red Jetta, that the girls just loved! On the way to Baltimore, we stopped at Target to get (yet another) swimsuit…
We headed out around 8am this morning and stopped at the bagel place to get some breakfast. Only one guy was doing everything, so it took us quite some time to get out. By the time we walked the two blocks to the bus stop, it was just about time for the bus to come,…
Thursday Feb 12th was Lincoln’s 200th Birthday. After we left XM, we decided to get off th train at Metro Center and visit Ford’s Theatre. I had read that they were holding various celebrations there, including the grand re-opening of the theater after renovations. I was surprised at the lack of a crowd! We walked…
Despite my sister’s desire for us to go to bed early and get up early and get to The Mall early for optimal vieweng, we all slept in and didn’t leave until 9am. Good thing to, as we would have been even more frozen than we were had we left earlier. Chloe was whiny and…
My folks, my sister and I spent about six hours on the streets of DC today. Again the mood was upbeat, even as places started to get more and more crowded. There were protesters at both Dupont Circle and in Lafayette Park throwing shoes at various images of Bush, including a very huge inflatable one…