Sarah is helping with this blog post. We discussed things that are the same in Copenhagen and different and she compiled this list. Same – Some people speak English too They have busses and trains and airplanes. Everybody uses their…
i have been having difficulty posting. I am trying to see if this works. Briefly – this is a photo of Sarah’s Lego creation. It’s a girl in a raft selling helmets to people on the river who need them….
Apparently the “happiest people on earth” are happy because so many are cared for by the government. At least that’s what we read. We’ve not found that happiness flowing to the tourists though. In fact, the people who are nice…
We slept 14!!! hours! And then we set off to find the National Museum – one of the country’s shining jewels apparently. And there is also a National Galley – not to be confused… though we did. It didn’t matter…
Two things are immediately different in Copenhagen. One, the family discussed; the other hasn’t been mentioned by anyone yet. First – it’s astounding how many people smoke here! I’ve gotten used to that being rare and it’s definitely taken some…
Fifteen years ago, Brian and I were making our way through Costa Rica on the tail end of a lifetime dream to backpack around the world. Travel was in my DNA as I grew up hearing stories from my Grandmommy…
I swear if I had known how much I would love being a Mom, I would have had kids much sooner and had several more of them. If you know anything about me though, this is a statement that is…
My mom takes great pride that she got my brother and me up to watch several spectacular events in history. Apparently, I was up for the moon landing in 1969. I was three and don’t remember a bit of it….
I keep a bag of toiletries packed so I can travel quickly. I have always told myself it’s so I can head out on business trips at a moment’s notice. Or maybe I would take it somewhere fun without any…
When we walked across the bridge into Hopkins the Friday after Thanksgiving, I said, “Who thought THAT was a good idea? They look like Band-Aids!” Everywhere I looked out any glass surface, I had to look through marks on the…
