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aloha!

Sunday, 4 May 2008 8:10 P GMT-08
Hello Everyone!  Or should I say "Aloha"?  Writing to you via the beautiful shores of Kauai.  Thank you to everyone who sent out a search party for me out of concern for my lack of blogging.  I am great, really great!&nb
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my craptacular day

Wednesday, 9 January 2008 8:12 A GMT-08
The day began with both kids screaming.  Felicity was crying because -- well, I don't know exactly why she was crying; she seems to have hit a difficult phase where she is always unhappy.  I used to blame it on teething, or being sick,
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Our weekend at Legoland

Wednesday, 7 November 2007 9:36 P GMT-08
A couple of weeks before Halloween, we took a trip to Carlsbad and visited Legoland. THIS was an excursion to end all excursions!  Who knew Legoland could be so much fun?  I was thinking we would go for a couple of hours, see a few Legos,
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home sweet home...sort of.

Friday, 28 July 2006 4:02 A GMT-08
We're home at last!  I have mixed feeling about being home: I wasn't ready to leave the UK AT ALL, but as soon as I stepped in our front door I immediately felt relief to be home.  There's nothing like sleeping in your own bed again; I real
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practically perfect in every way...

Monday, 17 July 2006 1:48 P GMT-08
Just got home from a perfect ending to our incredible final weekend in London.  We leave for York tomorrow morning, where I don't *think* we'll have easy internet access, so I must try to encapsulate these last few days in just few short pa
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so much to see...so little time...

Friday, 14 July 2006 7:25 A GMT-08
We are having a blast...and I do believe that Tate is having the most fun of all!  For a while there I was starting to get that NYC feeling where there is *so* much I want to see and do and never enough time (and good lord, I thought I had alrea
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Success!

Wednesday, 12 July 2006 6:10 A GMT-08
The trip has gotten markedly better since the last time I posted.  The housing situation has improved greatly.  The suite fell through, but that is FINE with me.   Jeremy, Tate and I are in our own, very nice room (our seventh roo
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"Kick-a-Ball" fever

Sunday, 9 July 2006 12:38 P GMT-08
World Cup fever has been in full effect here in Leicester Square.  Loud rallies have been taking place all day, with crowds of face-painted, flag-draped kids chanting and bouncing around. (I say "kids," but they're probably in their twenties
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Homeless in London

Sunday, 9 July 2006 6:08 A GMT-08
Well, the housing situation here has been tedious, to say the least.  The flat didn't work out for a number of reasons, unfortunately.  It wasn't the flat we originally contracted for, which wouldn't have been such a big deal except the new
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we made it!

Friday, 7 July 2006 1:09 A GMT-08
We're here! We're here! We survived the plane ride and have been in London just about 24 hours now.  It is *so* great to be back!  No time to write a thorough, coherent post, so random bulletpoints will have to do for now. *I was awake fo
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Welcome to the 30s club

Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:38 A GMT-08
My 30th birthday yesterday was great!  It was pretty mellow (NYC was the "official" big celebration), but I have managed to eat and drink my way through the entire four-day weekend.  We had breakfast burritos in the morning at our
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London activities for toddlers

Sunday, 2 July 2006 9:24 P GMT-08
I'm compiling a list of potential things to do with Tate while we are in London.  This is mainly for my own reference, but if anyone wants to chime in with their two cents, I always welcome input! Princess Diana Memorial Playground Museum of C
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random thoughts & updates

Sunday, 2 July 2006 8:59 A GMT-08
In no particular order... *Train tickets to York are booked! (Thanks for the help with that, Taz and pixiewharf!)  Had a momentary brain fart and forgot to write the date Euro-style...could have been disasterous, but fortunately my mistake was
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switching gears

Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:11 P GMT-08
Switching gears VERY rapidly here.  I know I just finished recapping our last trip...now I'm knee-deep into last-minute planning of our next trip! (No rest for the weary, eh?) Anyhow, I will probably be littering this blog with all sorts of see
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Day Three (and a half) of NYC

Wednesday, 28 June 2006 8:49 P GMT-08
I'm going to finish this recap tonite if it kills me!!  As I was writing my last post, I started to get the eerie sensation of what it would be like to force extended family and friends to sit through hours upon hours of a slideshow of an infinite n
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Day Two in NYC, Part II

Tuesday, 27 June 2006 4:33 P GMT-08
After we left Ground Zero, we walked down Wall Street so my dad could pay homage to the New York Stock Exchange... ...and to the scary men with guns walking all around outside the NYSE...  
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Day Two in NYC: Ground Zero

Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:05 P GMT-08
We got an early start on Day Two and made our way down to Lower Manhattan to see the former site of the World Trade Center.  Visiting Ground Zero is something I think every American should do if given the opportunity, and I particularly wanted t
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Day One in NYC

Monday, 26 June 2006 11:26 A GMT-08
I am quickly running out of steam and need to get through these recaps so I can start focusing on London, baby, London!  Must. find. a. way. to. condense.  Jeremy has always said I'm an "expander," which has certainly proved to be
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The Road Trip from Hell

Saturday, 24 June 2006 7:17 A GMT-08
We said our tearful goodbyes in Maine and began the journey down to New York City.  When we started the three hour drive to Boston, it was sprinkling outside.  By the time we crossed over the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border it was
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Vacationland

Wednesday, 21 June 2006 1:32 P GMT-08
Our week in Maine started off on a dark and stormy night...literally!  It started raining on our drive up the coast, and didn't really stop much until our last day there when we had one glorious warm day of sunshine.  Many people apologized
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Our very first 'bee'

Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:43 A GMT-08
At last!  The start of my vacation recap.  I think I'm finally unpacked and caught up at home, we made it through Father's Day, and I'm no longer getting those annoying "connection timed out" messages from Blog-City.  Let me
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best. trip. ever.

Monday, 12 June 2006 6:50 A GMT-08
We are home from our very first cross-country trip with Tate.  I am happy to report that, not only did we survive, we had a F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C time!  It was seriously one of the best trips I've ever taken, only enhanced by watching Tate soak
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Diane is going to kill me when she reads this...

Saturday, 6 May 2006 8:00 A GMT-08
Jeremy is in the shower again, so I thought I would hop on here very quickly to post again.  Hey, this is fun!  It's like timed blogging! So the latest news around here is that we may be adding another trip to our summer plans, because we
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and we call this a "vacation?"

Monday, 13 March 2006 12:40 P GMT-08
My role as an insurance broker has now been replaced with "full-time travel agent."  I spend every free moment (of which there is not much because I am limited to naptimes and after bedtime) planning the two trips we're
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York

Saturday, 22 October 2005 6:56 P GMT-08
A recent e-conversation with Taz (one of my dear friends in Britain) prompted me to reminisce about my time in York.  I rummaged through our pictures and ordered a few of my favorites of the city to frame for our walls:
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