If you are intrigued, visit Rob’s Blog… The apartment is in Foggy Bottom, 9ish blocks from the White House and next door to the Ritz-Carlton. Our accommodations are not quite up to Ritz standards. More like grad student standards. But the apartment is clean, is amazingly located and has an incredible rooftop patio/pool. It is…
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At the apartment
The apartment doesn’t have Internet yet and is terrace level (no patio), but it does have this awesome rooftop pool! We are next door to the Ritz…
The Big Little Move
Today starts our DC adventure! Rob packed the car last night, not leaving room for me and the girls to bring clothes. Hmmph. He rearranged, taking out some Legos(!) so that we could fit in our bag of clothes. We’ll be back to Georgia in a couple of days after helping him move in and…
Georgia Mountain Fair
As I had worked so much earlier in the week, it was time to get away from the computer and do something else. After much fuss, as it is always a challenge to get five people out of the house, we hit the road to head to the Georgia Mountain Fair. The girls spotted the…
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…
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…
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…
Japan Trip, Day 11
After running around for two days, we decided to take it a little easier today. We headed out of the inn in a leisurely manner and walked over to yet another great Japanese breakfast place, Starbucks. After breakfast, we headed to Kyoto Station to see the tourist information office as well as the gisnt department…
Japan Trip, Day 10
Chloe and I were up early. Chloe coughing, me going through photos. Chloe fell back to sleep and Camille slept in. We had wanted to get an early train to Hiroshima, but felt the girls needed rest more than anything else. After they woke, we packed the backpack and headed to the station to get…
Japan Trip, Day 9
Yet again I was up before 5:30. I hadn’t gone to the toilet the night before, but had to pee, so I had to wake Rob to ask him where it was. Chloe woke while I was finishing up blogging and photo editing. She asked me to hold her, and we both ended up falling…
Japan Trip, Day 8
Again up at 5:30. Chloe had no fever! But I had a sore throat 🙁 Camille said that she had a headache. Ugh. We headed down to breakfast. Chloe had corn, cucumbers, rice and orange quarters. She said that the juice hurt her throat. Camille and Rob both enjoyed the caramel pastries. I had a…
Japan Trip, Day 7
Chloe woke this morning with a bit of a fever still. We actually were at breakfast later than 6:30. The place was packed already. It seems that this resort is quite busy on the weekends compared to the middle of the week. Chloe ate a little potatoes and rice (skipping the pasta and bread that…
Japan Trip, Day 6
Chloe woke this morning still feeling under the weather. (I woke first at 4:30am; Rob thought my typing was raindrops — it has not rained since we’ve been here.) Speaking of weather, there were reports of a typhoon (that’s a Pacific cyclone, as opposed to an Atlantic one which we know as a hurricane) coming…
Japan Trip, Day 5
I was up very early. The rest woke soon after. We headed down to breakfast just before 6:30. The buffet wasn’t open yet, so we went down to the beach for a few minutes. The buffet was half closed; squid ink sausage was on the table again. Black sausages look strange, but Rob said that…