Fifteen hours of driving, almost 1000 miles. We did it in one trip, no problems. It was different from a few years back when we drove out with babies. This time? All quiet. Okay, fresh flowers in the bathroom? This is the kind of thing she does. There’s a heat lamp in the gazebo, and […]
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This is the only official trip we took. It was a tour of the city, then stop at a jewelry store (yah.) Then out to a tequila distillery, then lunch, then finally the botanical garden. This is the hall where they host wedding receptions. It’d be a great place, but where would everyone park? I
Jay did this back in December one evening while I was working. He found us a trip to celebrate our 35th anniversary. We left in a snowstorm, and came back to the remnants of another one–school was even cancelled again–but then in between was this: This is the boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta. In this town, buses run
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Here we are celebrating our 35th anniversary with the kids. Here’s where we are this week. This is what’s going on back at home: Kirsten is showing them a good time. Love you all so, MOM and DAD
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Yes, it is, astonishing. We laughed about this, how fussy they are at the public pool about every little thing. At the resort pool, smoking is fine IN the pool. There’s a swim up bar. Kids dragged a big lawn chair off the edge, and nobody cared. We observed and ordered chicken wings. They came
We went to them, and the little kids are so little they don’t really remember Lori. They know her through the voice of all the rest of us. Well, the story is this: For years and years, Lori would have us to her house for supper, and make bbq chicken, and late in the evening,
We were on our way to Mexico. One day while we were there, cruise ships came in. I was amazed by how enormous they are. This is outside a restaurant where the food was delicious. Wow, how fast a month has gone by, and what a packed month it was. Now we’ve sailed into January,
This is Mismaloya Beach–site of the filming of the 1963 movie Night of the Iguana, which we were told began Puerto Vallarta’s identity as a tourist destination. I didn’t know until today that she’d been there. Oh gosh, what a gorgeous place to be. We were there on vacation last week and took these pictures.
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Kirsten was in charge, and she kept these kids busy. They went to the mall and saw Santa. They made gingerbread houses out of crackers, and NOT from kits: She took them around to places. Thursday she took them swimming at the indoor pool. They were crazy for the water slide. And on her
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