Here’s what our house looked like as we prepared for taping Episode #1 on Sunday:
gbkZoo videocast
The girls and I have been talking about a new project for some time now (like I need another project), and yesterday we progressed on it. They love the idea of having a webshow (though technically a videocast since it isn’t live). We have posted the first episode, started a blog and, of course, created…
gbkZoo videocast Episode #1
The GBKids have created their first videocast! This episode includes Cooking Fun, Kindie Buzz, Random Dance Scene and Fan Mail. Stay tuned for future episodes!
DC Concerts
DC was hopping this week for kids’ music. We just couldn’t fit it all in! We went to Jammin’ Java in Vienna TWICE, once to see Secret Agent 23 Skidoo and then again for Rocknoceros’s big PINK! CD relesae party. We went to the most awesome of venues, the White House, where we took in…
Welcome to gbkZoo!
The girls love to make movies, so we are creating a new videocast. We’ll see how well we can keep it up, but stay tuned for the first episode coming up soon. We’ve been filming like mad. I think we’ll start with shorter than ten minute episodes. Any longer than that and I think we’ll…
DC LIke A Local
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…
Around DC
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…
White House Easter Egg Roll
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…
Pine Lake Easter Egg Hunt
While planning our trips to DC, the girls were insistent that we not head to DC until we had participated in the Pine Lake Easter Egg Hunt. So we booked plane tickets to head up to DC in the afternoon AFTER the hunt. Even though we had stayed up to after midnight the night before…
Camille’s Ring
When Camille was 5.5 and Chloe 1, we went to Ireland for a friend’s wedding. We stayed in Salthill, near the beach. Between us and Galway was Claddagh. Camille really wanted a Claddagh ring, and we, amazingly enough, found one small enough for her little finger. The ring came along with a little book that…
Tootie’s in the House
One of the things that the girls love to do when Rob’s home for the weekend is to get him to take them skating at the nearby rink. Apparently, neither one has really been able to skate unassisted, until now. On Sunday, Rob took the girls and one of their friends. Chloe refused to let…
wildflowers
On Tuesday, after we dropped Jim and Marty off at the airport, Barbara, the girls and I headed off to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. While the wildflowers weren’t as numerous as I remembered in the past, it was such a nice place to be! We wandered around the gardens, then the woods and…
Capital 10K
On Sunday, we woke early and headed down to Austin. Barbara, Phil, Jim and Marty were planning to walk, Suze and Luis to run, the girls and I to drink coffee and cheer them all on. (In the end, Jim chose to run.) It was FREEZING early, so as the race started, I ended with…
Happy Birthday, Grandma!
On Saturday, the girls and I got up early and headed to the airport in the rain for our 8:40 flight. The weather was bad, but not bad enough to delay the flight. The plane was tiny, so Camille had to sit in the row ahead of Chloe and me. There was a medical emergency…
Easter Egg Roll
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…
National Building Museum
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…
Please Touch!
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…
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 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…
The Franklin Institute
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…
Rockin’ Out With Uncle Rock
Last night we headed out of the heart of DC, straight into the heart of Philly. The hotel is wonderfully located, so we left the car there and walked over to World Cafe Live after swimming and breakfast. WCL hosts a fantastic series of kids’ show called “Peanut Butter and Jams” and it seems everybody…