Emily and I were worried about how Nathan was going to handle us both being gone for a couple of weeks. They tried to diffuse the emotions by making funny faces all the way to the airport. I think they were both teaching each other a few things. However, as …

I saved the following YouTube video which Amanda sent to me quite awhile ago. If this posts correctly, we should be in the air by now. It will sure be a FUN flight if we end up with an attendant like this one.

Tuesday and Wednesday (Sept 22nd and 23rd) were spent doing all of the last minutes things we needed to do before we leave. Needless to say it was a whirlwind. Here are a few things on my list: *change Amanda’s phone plan so it can be used in Europe *go …

We leave for Europe in 48 hours which means the next two days will be quite crazy. Here’s my short list just to give you an idea: 1. Pay our bills 2. Talk with a local person at the bank who will be manually checking our credit card for me …

Last year when we were visiting Glacier National Park, I wanted to visit The Calgary Zoo since we were so close. However, we just couldn’t convince the kids it would be worth another 2-3 hours of driving to get there. We decided we would fit it in this year since …

Regular blog readers will already know that Michaela is also writing some things in German on these blog entires. They are italicized in blue. Just pointing that out so you don’t think I had my fingers on the wrong part of the keyboard (LOL). After Em’s volleyball game on Sept …

Last Sunday we went up the Going-to-the-Sun Road on the Montana side of Glacier National which is a SPECTACULAR 52 mile, two-lane highway built back in 1932 which spans the width of Glacier National Park from east to west.We entered on the east side and went almost all the way …

Seven years ago this summer, we were anxiously awaiting the arrival of our German foreign exchange student, Michaela, who lived with us for a year from summer 2002 through summer 2003. I’m guessing many of our blog readers, real life and internet alike, probably don’t know we had an exchange …

Do you remember the Hawaii album I mentioned awhile back? I’ve been trying to work on it a little bit each day. So far so good in regard to my stated goal to keep it simple. Now, I know some of you are already rolling your eyes and you’re probably …

After pulling this off from a tree in the park right outside our condo, he tried to scare everyone with it telling them it was a snake. The only problem with trying to scare us is that we had already read on the way here that Kauai doesn’t have any …