We're off to Istanbul tomorrow ... ok, the flight leaves in about 9.5 hours ... but we should have internet access in our apartment there, so we'll be around. In the meantime, check this new video mixing thingy (animoto) out.
24 April 2008
22 April 2008
School pictures
I think we got these back in the fall, but I finally got around to scanning them. Enjoy!
15 April 2008
United wants you to come to Europe
We will be away for part of the time, but if you want our apartment to see Paris, contact United now!
International E-Fares Specials
Sample fares are for travel beginning Monday (April 28, 2008) through Thursday (May 1, 2008) and returning Monday (May 5, 2008) through Thursday (May 8, 2008).
Additional taxes and fees apply to the fares below.*
From: To: Each-way:
Chicago (ORD) Amsterdam (AMS) $252
Denver (DEN) London (LHR) $292
Los Angeles (LAX) Frankfurt (FRA) $276
Los Angeles (LAX) London (LHR) $226
Washington, D.C. (IAD) Amsterdam (AMS) $232
Washington, D.C. (IAD) Brussels (BRU) $224
Washington, D.C. (IAD) Paris (CDG) $238
International E-Fares Specials
Sample fares are for travel beginning Monday (April 28, 2008) through Thursday (May 1, 2008) and returning Monday (May 5, 2008) through Thursday (May 8, 2008).
Additional taxes and fees apply to the fares below.*
From: To: Each-way:
Chicago (ORD) Amsterdam (AMS) $252
Denver (DEN) London (LHR) $292
Los Angeles (LAX) Frankfurt (FRA) $276
Los Angeles (LAX) London (LHR) $226
Washington, D.C. (IAD) Amsterdam (AMS) $232
Washington, D.C. (IAD) Brussels (BRU) $224
Washington, D.C. (IAD) Paris (CDG) $238
11 April 2008
From Carter
dear friends and family
we are having a great time in paris. we are looking forward to coming back and visiting you all this summer. we hope that we will be able to see all of you, but if we don't we will call you or send you an email.in the past three weeks it has been very exciting for me and calvin because we had kid or age staying with us.while they were staying with us we went to normandy and saw the d-day beaches.it was especially fun seeing the german bunkers. i even got to stand on top of some of them and once, i stood inside the giant gun sticking out of one of the bunkers. in one of them i stepped into a foot-deep puddle of water and got my leg soaked! i am really looking forward to going to istanbul in turkey. i have heard that it is where asia and europe get the closest together (besides where they touch in russia) and in istanbul, there is the second-oldest subway line in the world. i am looking forward to seeing you this summer and going to lakeside with some of you and seeing others all over the united states.
from carter
we are having a great time in paris. we are looking forward to coming back and visiting you all this summer. we hope that we will be able to see all of you, but if we don't we will call you or send you an email.in the past three weeks it has been very exciting for me and calvin because we had kid or age staying with us.while they were staying with us we went to normandy and saw the d-day beaches.it was especially fun seeing the german bunkers. i even got to stand on top of some of them and once, i stood inside the giant gun sticking out of one of the bunkers. in one of them i stepped into a foot-deep puddle of water and got my leg soaked! i am really looking forward to going to istanbul in turkey. i have heard that it is where asia and europe get the closest together (besides where they touch in russia) and in istanbul, there is the second-oldest subway line in the world. i am looking forward to seeing you this summer and going to lakeside with some of you and seeing others all over the united states.
from carter
from, Calvin
Dear ,friends and family
I would like to see you and play with you and a couple of weeks ago I went to see the play "Little Red Riding Hood". I hope that you are all doing well and I really miss you all.
from,Calvin
(typed by Carter)
I would like to see you and play with you and a couple of weeks ago I went to see the play "Little Red Riding Hood". I hope that you are all doing well and I really miss you all.
from,Calvin
(typed by Carter)
Still kickin'
Mom pointed out last night that it's been a whiiiiiiiile since we updated the blog. It's not that we don't miss you! In fact, it's quite the opposite, as we've been feeling the distance a lot lately. It was somewhat assuaged by having four sets of friends visit between March 13 and April 5. Add it up - 21 nights out of 23, or 59 person-nights of visitors over the course of just over 3 weeks. We really enjoyed seeing Cath, Jessie, Dave & Tyson & Cora, and Julie & Tom & Mathew & Emily Magee (that's the Magee kids with our boys at Parc de Sceaux near Paris, right). The boys definitely enjoyed having live-in playmates, too! I ducked out to Brussels for 3 nights to see Gary while Cath was here, then the boys and I took off to Normandy (see Calvin in a bomb crater, right) for a couple days with the Magees. Meanwhile poor Betsy got to work hard all day then stay up late being social. Wow! Now I realize why we're all still exhausted and the apartment's such a mess. Oh, and Betsy and I took a day off and went to the big wine salon in the morning, then toured city hall in the afternoon. Oh, and we took a steam train to Provins (a medieval hill town) for Easter with friends. And had Calvin's birthday party. And I might be forgetting something ... I'll go through the pictures and let you see some of it for yourselves.
So we've been mostly recovering this week, apart from our usual dull roar of activities - me with the boys and apartment, the boys with school and Betsy working hard to get ready for an all-week meeting next week in Nancy, 400 km east of Paris. After that week, the boys have a two-week vacation, the last one of the school year (really!). We've just made plans to go to Istanbul for the first time, from the 24th through May 2. And we're working on our summer plans, which will have us in the US for basically the whole month of July.
In the meantime, off to try to whip this apartment into decent shape, otherwise known as avoiding the taxes!
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