When M woke up this morning, I knew I needed to take a picture of her bed for the blog. She has 4 pillow pets plus a pillow that she needlepointed. She has been rotating the pillow pets and pillow…
The girls had no school today because DC cancelled school to make sure that the buildings were all structurally sound. I don't know how they managed to find engineers to inspect 150 buildings in one day on 12 hours' notice,…
Hard to believe it, but we had a 5.9 earthquake here in DC today. It was a beautiful clear day here, and at 1:50 PM, the quake hit. Not much damage, but my work was evacuated and lots of other…
So much going on over the last two days. As I mentioned in Saturday's post, Allie wasn't doing too well when we got home. She got worse Saturday night. She didn't sleep at all, couldn't get comfortable, and was breathing…
We are home! It has been a very long 24 hours. We woke up at 2:30AM Russia time for a 6AM flight to Frankfurt, had a 4 hour layover, and then a 9 hour flight to DC. We are all…
Today we continued our Russian Death March Adventure. We woke up late again, thanks to a botched wake-up call from the hotel that never came. After a slow start, we made it to the blini place for breakfast (I think…
Another long day here in St. Petersburg. Well, not that long, because we woke up really late. I think we all, especially the girls, needed the sleep. We have a room that looks into an interior part of the hotel,…
It is now Tuesday night at 11PM St. Petersburg time, the end of another looooong day. Last I left off, we were in Denmark and had spent the day at Helsingor and Louisiana. Yesterday, we had a GREAT day at…
Last I wrote was in Norway the night before we left. On Friday, we had another late start and headed out to the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It’s a very cool museum with two very well-preserved Viking ships. It…
Today is Thursday, and it is our second day in Norway. We arrived here yesterday after a long trip from DC. Flight over was fine, but long, and then we had a layover in Frankfurt that was much better than…
