Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 13th, 2010 4 Comments »
Last weekend we took an extended field trip to Amsterdam. We’ve been studying World World II and the Holocaust and felt this was a great time to take a short trip to see the Anne Frank House. It was amazing! The house has been left unfurnished – when the Germans were tipped off of the [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Jun 20th, 2010 No Comments »
We said our goodbyes to Istanbul and boarded a plane to head further down the Aegean Coast to the area of Ephesus. We flew into Izmir and rented a car to get the hour south to a little village called Şirince. As we followed the GPS directions to the hotel, we drove around many switchbacks [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Jun 15th, 2010 3 Comments »
After seeing the big site-seeing destinations, we decided to spend a relaxing afternoon atop a site-seeing bus. It was great. After being in the same part of the city for a couple days, it was refreshing to get out of our little hub and see the rest of Istanbul. I LOVE audio-guides, mostly for the [...]
Posted in Family, Travel, site-seeing on Jun 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Our first big holiday away from London and where did we go? Turkey! Our first attempt to get there was thwarted by the giant ash cloud that hovered over the UK for a time. Thankfully, it moved on . . . and so did we. Off to Istanbul, the only metropolis in the world that [...]
Posted in Becca, Cami, School, site-seeing on May 26th, 2010 No Comments »
When I asked Cami what she wanted to do yesterday while the other kids were at “Flexi-school”, she said she wanted to go to the fair. It seems little traveling fairs do creep up here quite often, but usually not during the week. I tried to come up with the next best thing and could [...]
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 Family, London, site-seeing on May 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
Due to the May Day Holiday this week, we had a bank holiday that Chris got to have off from work. We took the opportunity and drove a couple hours away to delve into the world of Robin Hood. We were having such great weather last week that we were thinking we were done with [...]
Posted in Family, London, site-seeing on Apr 20th, 2010 4 Comments »
. . and no where to go. We had planned to go on holiday this week, but due to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, our plans were canceled. We were a bit bummed but were holding out hope to the end that we could still make it. Instead, we have to reschedule. On the bright side, at [...]
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, site-seeing on Apr 8th, 2010 1 Comment »
Since Chris had off work for Easter Monday, we decided to jump at the chance and take a day trip out to Winchester, which is about an hour away from us. The ride there was not fun as a wrong turn added about 20 minutes onto our trip and caused some car sickness. But, we [...]