Archive for April, 2008
Too much information
Posted in Musings on April 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Reflect
Posted in Travel, Wordless Wednesday, kidlets on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Wordless Wednesday .
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
Posted in Travel on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thing 1 documented the last night on our trip. Her self-portrait reminded me of a hobbit hole:
Thing 2 watched TV…
GWH read the paper:
And I blogged.
We’ve been home for 2 weeks, so it’s about time to wrap up the DC pix. I think I’ll have one more tomorrow for Wordless Wednesday.
Art Deco
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
International Man of Mystery
Posted in Travel, kidlets on April 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
We visited the International Spy Museum on our trip to Washington where we learned all about, well, International Spies. Afterward we headed for some afternoon refreshment at a nearby Starbucks. Suddenly Thing 1 whispered, “There’s a spy!” Sure enough, we looked out the window and saw a suspicious looking fellow wearing a hat and trenchcoat. [...]
Things that make you say Hmmm.
Posted in Travel on April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
GWH travels for business and collects hotel points and air miles, which means a lot of our travel is free or discounted. Yay! And we get to stay in nice places that offer benefits like this:
I did notice, however, that the toilet seat didn’t have one of those Sanitized For Your Protection banners.
What did those [...]
Did I mention it was cold?
Posted in Travel on April 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We spent a couple of days visiting museums and touring the White House, etc., but finally had to brave the elements to see what tens of thousands of our fellow tourists are here to see this week, the Cherry Blossoms.
We hiked around to the Jefferson Memorial. At that point I was so cold I would [...]
National Treasure
Posted in Travel on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Despite the cold weather, we were still stickin’ to our schedule on day 3. We started off at Manassas Battlefield Park. The wind chill was about minus 5. Well, not really, but it sure was cold. We viewed the indoor exhibits and tried walking around one of the fields but it was too cold. We [...]
That’s what you call ironic
Posted in Travel on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On day two of our East Coast extravaganza we visited the historic Jamestown and Yorktown sites. What’s fascinating about these is that the British American experience began in Jamestown in 1607 with the first permanent English settlement in America. Then it ended only a few short miles away in Yorktown when the British army suffered [...]
I went to Williamsburg and all you got was these pictures
Posted in Travel on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We started off our historical Williamsburg/DC trip last week at Colonial Williamsburg. Here’s a pic of Thing 1 in a costume that she sewed before our trip:
GWH was taking pix of Thing 1 in this gift shop because we thought the decor matched her dress really well! The shop lady was watching us very strangely, [...]
