Posted in Friends, Kids, London, site-seeing on Jul 24th, 2012 No Comments »
The Olympics are nearly here and we were able to enjoy having the Torch Relay go through very near us. We actually had a couple places we could choose to view it from, but we chose to go to Kew Bridge with some friends. Kew Seriously, could you ask for a better day in London?! [...]
Posted in Chris, Kids, London on Jul 19th, 2012 No Comments »
Summer has officially started for our household so we’ve been thinking of some fun things to do that will get us out of the house each day. Emma made up a calendar to fill up our 6 weeks’ worth of break; then Chris realized we didn’t have any days open to meet him for lunch. [...]
Posted in Family, London, Pictures on Jul 19th, 2012 2 Comments »
It has been almost 2 months ago, but we did have our family pictures taken again by Blue Lily (past photos here and here). We had a great time meeting up with Wendy, Tyler, and their kids at our local park. The only sad part was not having them in London long enough to spend [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 18th, 2012 2 Comments »
We quickly found a pattern for our days in Marrakech – Mornings – exploring the Souk with the kids Heading out to Explore Inside Souk Tangine Pots Sweets Stall Lantern Shop Pottery Shop Raffia Products We did do a little shopping while we were out exploring. We found some fun serving dishes at this stall. [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 18th, 2012 No Comments »
Our first official day in Marrakech, we decided to take a walking tour with a guide. Our riad was right in the souk and we needed to get a good feel for the area, as it’s really a labyrinth. Leaving on Walking Tour We started down the street, taking in everything as we passed. Some [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 18th, 2012 No Comments »
It was such a long day of driving – we had to get all the way back over the Atlas Mountains back to Marrakech . . . on the bus . . . on the windy and steep roads. Can you hear a nightmarish ride coming? Before that, though, we enjoyed our morning at the [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 18th, 2012 No Comments »
Camping out under the sky had us up at the crack of dawn for the sunrise. Desert Sunrise It was nice to see our little set-up in the daylight as when we went to bed it was quite dark and none of us had flashlights. Sleeping Arrangements Entire Camp The kids were excited to finally [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 17th, 2012 1 Comment »
I have to preface this day by saying this was our most memorable day of the trip (good/bad)! We were truly in the desert, having to take jeeps, rather than our bus. The first stop was in the ‘countryside’ (it still seems weird to use that word for the desert) to listen to a musical [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 16th, 2012 1 Comment »
When we woke up the next morning, I found the flies had bothered Emma so much that she just made a cocoon out of her blankets so she could sleep. I guess it was a choice between the flies or the heat. Emma’s Cocoon After breakfast, we piled back on the bus, well-stocked with water [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 10th, 2012 2 Comments »
Where to start?! This trip was . . . amazing! Looking back at our pictures I keep thinking, ‘were we really there?’; ‘did we really do those things?’ The answer is YES! We were so lucky to have some pretty amazing travel partners . . . a family of 5 whose kids meshed right in [...]