Posted in Family, Friends, School, Travel on Aug 14th, 2010 3 Comments »
We moved away from Ithaca, New York 5 years ago. We lived there for 2 years during graduate school at Cornell University and it is still one of our favorite places we’ve lived. We, admittedly, went back every once in a while afterward to get our fill of the scenery, people, and used-book sales! Our [...]
Posted in Friends, London, site-seeing on May 22nd, 2010 1 Comment »
We were able to host the Iversons for a few days while they toured London. Their trip got off on a rocky start as their flight was delayed and they ended up getting here a day later than planned. But, ever positive and resilient, they were still able to get in everything they had planned. [...]
Posted in Friends, London on May 9th, 2010 No Comments »
When we found out we were moving to London, we turned to Brandon & Josie, friends we knew at Cornell, who moved here a number of years ago. They were a wealth of knowledge and helped us get our feet underneath of us as we quickly had to turn around and figure out Christmas, where [...]
Posted in Friends, site-seeing on Apr 10th, 2010 3 Comments »
I have to admit we didn’t have any new visitors, but we kind of ‘borrowed’ our friends, the Mayers, for a little while. They were actually here visiting family and we snuck in a day to follow them around during their London touring. They decided to see the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, London, site-seeing on Apr 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
Chris’s good friend from our Cornell days was in London for the weekend with his girlfriend. We jumped at the chance and met them for lunch in Notting Hill to enjoy some great pizza. Times and places have changed but the comfortable friendship and conversation have not. Afterward, we took a stroll around town, visited [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, London, site-seeing on Mar 31st, 2010 4 Comments »
See how quickly that happened, we were settled and they came! Some of our great friends from New Jersey stopped in for a weekend in London before they left to spend the week in Ireland. We had the greatest weekend, all crammed into two days. They arrived first thing Saturday morning. After breakfast and letting [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Travel, site-seeing on Aug 11th, 2009 6 Comments »
We had another weekend getaway; this time to Boston. One of those places we had always wanted to take the kids, but had never done it. We jumped at our chance and really loved it. Of course, any trip that involves staying at a hotel ranks high with our kids because it means cable and [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Kids on Jul 12th, 2009 3 Comments »
I think Chris may have found a new hobby . . . disc golfing! Some friends invited us to go on a family disc golfing outing last night. I was really excited because I had never officially been Frisbee golfing (how we used to refer to it growing up). One of the parks where we [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Recipes on Jun 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
Last weekend we had some friends over for a BBQ. They treated us to homemade ice cream for dessert. The kids were so excited to get to make their own ice cream. There is just something about throwing bags of cream around outside that works up an appetite for ice cream! Measuring out the heavy [...]
Posted in Friends, Kids, Recipes on Jun 11th, 2009 5 Comments »
We had scheduled over a week ago to go strawberry picking today with a friend. The weather was supposed to be wet and rainy but when the threat of thunderstorms was removed from the forecast, we figured there wasn’t much to fear so we took off anyway. We had rain on the way and on [...]