Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Monday, January 5th, 2009
We’ve just returned from a wonderful week in Florida with Gretchen’s siblings. Rachel and Kevin generously donated a week at their timeshare in Ft. Lauderdale to celebrate Patty’s 29th birthday. The accomodations were wonderful and a good time was had by all. While we were there, we checked out the Young at Art, The Everglades, the beach near the Ft. Lauderdale fishing pier, Butterfly World and the Museum of Discovery and Science. We also spent some time just hanging out by the pool, playing mini-golf and other activities right at the hotel.
The trip back was an adventure when our connecting flight in Atlanta departed for home without us on it! Delta put us up for the night and we made it home safely Monday morning. See a collection of 60 photos from our adventure.
Tags: Family, florida, new year, vacation
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Alyn Family in Petroglyph
Yep, we’re visiting Pammy in Albuquerque right now. It’s been chock filled with adventure, starting with a trip to
Petroglyph National Monument,
Balloon Fiesta Park for the
Balloon Glow, and tomorrow we’re heading to
Sandia Peak Tramway for a trip up the mountains. (It was getting too late this evening)
Since the trip is a working vacation for me, I wasn’t able to head to the Zoo with the family today but I think they had a good time. Here’s a couple of photos to tide you over until I upload a bunch to Flickr.
Balloon Glow
Sunset over Albuquerque
Tags: abq, albuquerque, new mexico, nm, vacation
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Yesterday Gretchen and Pammy took Erik and Xavier up to the Mall of America to explore and the kids of course fell in love with Nickelodeon Universe, the theme park that replaced the Snoopy/Peanuts park earlier this month. A great time was had by all and Erik was the great uncle taking little Xavier on as many rides as he was able to. More photos after the link… (more…)
Tags: Erik, gretchen, mall of america, Pammy, xavier
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Well, officially it was yesterday, but I wasn’t up to the task of writing a post about it. With over 150 pictures on Flickr, it was too much to cull through. Friday we headed out to the Kalahari in the Wisconsin Dells. Xavier had a blast in the water and in just about everything else he did. (more…)
Tags: Erik, oskar, party, waterpark, wisconsin dells, xavier
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Oskar and I are home from our weekend at Oma’s. Xavier’s staying until Patty comes up this next weekend. They boys had a great time Saturday burning off some steam running laps in the basement of the old house (still for sale if anyone’s interested), the mall and finally exploring the Elgin Public Museum. After that Chris and I went to the SCCA Chicago Solo awards banquet. I picked up my 9th place trophy (Wahoo!) and some Hoosier Tire door prize SWAG which the kids put to good use this morning. Some commented photos below. (more…)
Tags: Autocross, chris, egg, elgin, hoosier, museum, oskar, scca, xavier
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Today we (Rachel, Kevin, Gretchen, me and the boys) headed into St. Paul to the Science Museum of Minnesota and checked out all of the exhibits including the Pompeii one which is ending soon. It’s a cool museum for kids and I would highly recommend heading out there if you’ve got some and are in the area. The Pompeii exhibit was a little tough for the kids, but was interesting for us. (more…)
Tags: egg, gretchen, kevin, Kids, museum, oskar, rachel, science, st. paul, xavier
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
We’re in West Dundee, IL with Patty for the holiday this year. The kids started the day with a little time playing Nintendo while Patty and Gretchen make lunch. The Turkey is over at our old house cooking away so we’ve got space for Ham and all the sides here. Chris and JP are supposed to join us later today for the big meal.
Tags: nintendo, oskar, patty, thanksgiving, xavier
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Tomorrow I leave for Memphis leaving Gretchen behind for the fest since we’ve known each other! Oskar and Xavier got haircuts yesterday and Honesty Box for Facebook has been keeping me busy for the last few weeks.
The kitchen here at the house is still under construction, the counters have been installed in the Kitchen (but not the pantry) and the faucet we had selected didn’t fit on the sink, so that will be installed next week. Translation, no running water or dishwasher in the kitchen until next Tuesday! It all started this last Monday morning, when the new counter tops were installed.
Tags: egg, facebook, gretchen, house, oskar, work, xavier
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Friday we head to Memphis for the 14th Annual Fest. It’s looking to be a smaller gathering again this year. Below you’ll find a map of some of the locations we’ll be checking out while were in Memphis and I’ll post some pics from the BlackBerry while we’re there. (more…)
Tags: deep, egg, Fest, memphis, party
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
We’ve been blessed with two nights of Xavier sleeping through the night. Just prior to my trip to Virginia last week he had been getting up twice and it ended as a full on cold which he seems to be recovering from now. He would be up for two to three hours a night. The trip was a calamity of errors for me. I left Dundee at just before 4am for my 6am flight, arrived at O’Hare and sat down in my plane all on schedule. We then proceeded to sit on the plane (at the gate) for 2 1/2 hours while we waited for some particularly nasty thunderstorms. Ultimately, instead of getting to NWF by 9:30am, I got there at 12:30pm! Then as I checked into my hotel room, there was already someone staying there! The hotel didn’t want to believe me at first but finally saw it my way and gave me a new room. fortunately the meeting I was attending wasn’t as exciting! Oskar was sad yesterday that he didn’t get to ride the bus for two days and really wants to go to school today, alas, he’ll have to settle for church.
Tags: nwf, oskar, sleep, xavier
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