Boston

We were in Boston September 1 – 5, and are now in Manhattan. I don’t have any photos to include with this post, but hopefully I will soon. We used Laurel’s camera in Boston because hers is skinnier and easier to carry around. When she tried to upload the pictures to the computer this evening…

Detroit airport & Siberian taxi driver in Boston

We’d never flown into Detroit before, and I didn’t realize how large and pretty their airport is. There’s a really cool hallway leading to the A concourse with flashing and changing colors and music in kind of a tunnel with artsy walls where the colored light flashes. I tried uploading the video here but with…

Farewell, Ohio!

Jane picked us up at Mom’s house this morning and drove us to the Dayton airport. Unlike what would have happened if I were responsible for getting us to the airport, we actually arrived early and are waiting to leave on a 10:18 am flight. And Jane, you were right, our tiny plane is too…

Laurel’s thneed

My sister Maureen e-mailed Laurel an Amazon gift card for Laurel’s June birthday. Laurel bought yarn and needles and learned to knit by reading some online instructions. She intended to make a scarf but made it too wide, so she called it a “thneed” from Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. She recently finished it and gave…

Kings Island

I hadn’t been to Kings Island (amusement park) since I was a teenager, and I think I had more fun today than I ever did then. There was no teenage-girl drama. (My friends and I used to get season passes, and usually one of us was being a pill.) We only waited in two short…

Cincinnati Zoo

We met Amy and her family at the zoo on August 17, Amy’s 43rd birthday. It’s a wonderful place, and they’re doing lots of environmentally-friendly things. They just opened the greenest restaurant in the US, and they have “one of the largest public urban solar displays in the country,” according to a USA Today article.…

Hocking Hills, Ohio

Laurel, Charlie, Mom, and I drove to Hocking Hills – kind of southeast Ohio – for a couple days. The forest there is lush and beautiful, and Charlie kept saying, “This is like Costa Rica!” We even saw moss growing on trees. I asked Laurel if we’d ever seen moss in Colorado. She said, “I…