Sorry I messed up the days on the previous post (now corrected). I have to start off with Colorado news. I read the top story and watched the video on cnn.com about the flooding in Boulder and Lyons – 6 inches of rain in less than a day, a 500-year flood. How awful. It seems…
On Monday we took three trains to get from our Lower Manhattan apartment to the airport in Queens, flying out of JFK into Washington DC (Reagan). DC, at least the parts we’ve seen so far, is a very different city from Boston and New York. We’re staying in the basement of a house that’s near…
This is our last night in New York; tomorrow we’ll fly out of JFK to Washington, D.C. The title is one of many questions Charlie asked recently. We never did make it across the Brooklyn Bridge. (I have been known to over-schedule.) We did, however, make it to Hamilton, New Jersey – two Hamiltons in…
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…
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…
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…
Yes, it’s been a full week. Jane invited us over again to swim at her condo complex. Some childhood friends of mine invited me to go with them to a murder mystery theater/dinner. Jane took us to Findlay Market (farmers market) in Cincinnati again which was quite fruitful. Ba dum bum. We drove with Mom…
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…
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…
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.…
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 