Today’s Highlights: Watching the sun rise over the Grand Canyon, stopping for lunch at a diner on Route 66 in Kingman, AZ, walking across the […]
Out West Trip: Day 8 (Silver City, NM)
Today’s Highlights: Climbed up to the Gila Cliff Dwellings, watched a lizard eat a centipede, found a Hawaii license plate. We slept in a little […]
Out West Trip: Day 7 (Carrizozo, NM to Silver City, NM)
Today’s Highlights: Waiting 1.25 hours at a train crossing, seeing 1000 year old petroglyphs, sledding on the dunes at White Sands. After an easy breakfast, […]
Mondays are for Dreaming: Pont du Gard
“Mommy, the Romans didn’t have train tracks, right?” “No.” “Okay, but they did have bridges, right?” “Yes, remember the big one we went to in […]
Travels in Turkey: Around Selcuk
Travels in Turkey, Part 9 of 12 (I am resolved to finish up this series before 2011 gets here!) For one week of our trip […]
Photo Friday: San Antonio
Not only am I a day behind on my Photo Friday, I’m behind on everything right now. So it seems only fitting that this Photo […]
Travels in Turkey: Hierapolis and Pamukkale
Travels in Turkey, Part 8 of 12 Along with Cappadoccia and sights in Istanbul, I had one other place on my “must see while in […]
Mondays Are For Dreaming: A Wall Walk
Back in the summer of 2006, we spent a couple of weeks in Scotland, combining vacation with a business trip of my husband’s. During our […]
Travels in Turkey: Roman Ankara
Travels in Turkey, Part 7 of 12 I’ve fallen quite behind on my series of posts, haven’t I? My excuse, well, of course, too much […]
Sultanahmet Square Sights
Travels in Turkey, Part 1 of 12 [For the next dozen or so Tuesdays, I’ll be writing about our experiences in traveling Turkey with kids. […]
Holy Wisdom
The Hagia Sophia/Ayasofya in Istanbul is a place that both my girls have longed to see for years. In their history readings, they have learned […]
Independence
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 […]
Lincoln’s 200th Birthday
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. […]
The Streets of DC – Monday Edition
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 […]
Life in the City + National Archives
On Wednesday, the friend we had planning to meet for breakfast canceled on us, so I posted the need for a museum on my Facebook. […]
City Life
We arrived in DC on Friday morning. Thankfully, there is a driveway at the apartment building, since there is no parking on the street during […]
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) […]