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 Family, Travel on Aug 13th, 2010 2 Comments »
Our initial purpose in going to Utah was to attend a Cornell Branch Reunion from our graduate school days. However, with Liza’s endowment and family in town, we decided to extend our Bear Lake stay by a few days and go up early. We rented a cabin and had a great few days planned to [...]
Posted in Church, Family, Travel on Aug 12th, 2010 2 Comments »
As if we hadn’t had enough of planes up to this point, we hopped on another one on Monday and headed to Utah. Thank goodness it’s only an hour flight! We were only in the Provo area for less than 24 hours, but it will always be a memorable time! We started off our time [...]
Posted in Family, Family Reunion on Aug 11th, 2010 5 Comments »
We look forward to the annual Stephenson Reunion every year, but this year we seemed to look forward to it unlike any before. Perhaps it was due to the fact that we truly had to gear up for the overseas trip, but regardless, we could not wait to get to California! Of course, after the [...]
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 Family, Race on Jun 11th, 2010 No Comments »
This is my sister, Eliza: This is also a ‘new’ Eliza. In her own words, she’s never been much of a runner, but in the last year, she has become a serious runner. She’s already run two 5K’s and is in training for . . . . a marathon . . . . in Dublin!!! [...]
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 [...]