Category: Travel
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Two museum days. (I)
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No comments on Two museum days. (I)On Monday, Labor Day, we headed for the Boston Museum of Science. I had been there at the 9yo’s age and fondly remembered the giant van de Graaff generators and the lightning show, which to my delight is still running. This is on the same peninsula with where we are staying in Charlestown, so we…
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Boston!
I have been wanting to take a family trip to some city—any interesting city!—in the U.S. for some time now. For a while I thought we might lug the kids to D.C., and then Mark’s parents decided to take them there (and to Gettysburg and Colonial Williamsburg) a year or so ago. I didn’t really…
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Tripping.
I am sitting at my kitchen counter, waiting for the pizza that will feed my three kids and their grandma and grandpa, my husband’s parents, for dinner. Not long after the pizza man knocks, the bell will toll for me, and it will be a taxi taking me and a suitcase to the airport. …
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Reading matériel (II).
Continuing from the last post. I was thinking this morning, it's too bad that I didn't buy anything in Italian. I have exactly one book in Italian (not counting the first one that I set aside after discovering that it famously includes lots of Sicilian which is impenetrable by all my Italian dictionaries), which I…
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Reading matériel (I).
I took advantage of a sojourn in France to get to a bookstore and browse titles, looking for things that might be fun to read. Obviously, it's easier than it ever has been to obtain media published in other countries; I've ordered from Amazon.fr and Amazon.co.uk numerous times, when there was something specific I was…
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Return to Chamonix, via Turin.
Tuesday morning we were to check out of the apartment in Andora, but first the 11yo and I went on a little walk, for breakfast and souvenirs. It was a gorgeous, calm, blue-sky day. The waves rolled gently from the sea onto the nearly-empty beaches. It would have been fun to spend an hour or…
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Setting off.
"Are you ready to go yet, Mom? Are you ready? Are you ready?" No. No, I am not ready. And at the same time I am so very, very ready. + + + Remember how a few years ago we went abroad for a month, took all the kids to the French Alps and then…
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Catchup post: a good son, a Chicago getaway, my IT band, and something to read.
On account of the two weeks since I last wrote a post, I'm going to do a catch-up roundup. Here we go: + + + In mid-July I wrote about sending my oldest off to World Youth Day. He spent twelve days there, and returned safely. I didn't make it a secret that I…
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Debugging Grandma.
“We really won’t have time to miss any school this year,” I remember saying at the beginning, “we’ll have to make up any time we lose.” Remind me not ever to say something like that again. + + + So, I am in a hotel suite just outside my hometown with my sleeping toddler and…
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Montana trip, and a “we’re not from around here” moment.
We’re on our way back home after five days of skiing in Montana at Big Sky Resort. It is one of my favorite mountains to look at from the bottom: And also from the top (well, midmountain anyway — you’ll have to ask Mark to take a photo from the actual top, because I don’t…
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Near misses and the maternal instinct.
Amy Welborn — whose travel with her two youngest sons was one of the things that inspired our family to take the plunge and take our five kids to Europe this past September – shares a story of a "travel disaster:" [W]e each had a suitcase, plus a backpack. And remember, the boys were two years…
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Tuesday to Wednesday: History, art, and a stroll with my two big boys.
Of course, I am already home by now, and the title's Wednesday was eight days ago. I still find myself thinking, "One week ago I was in Rome," and feeling the sensations slip back into the past. They are still, barely, in the immediate memory — I can still hear the ear-piercing tones peculiar to…
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