Andrew and Isabella arrived in Stockholm. Here we are together. We spent the morning touring the Kungliga Slottet (royal palace) in Gamla Stan. While we were there, they changed the guards from the guys in navy blue jackets and black helmets to guys with royal blue jackets and cool silver helmets. The good news is [...]
Hurra. We spent the day trying to stay awake and exploring Norrmalm And we ended up at the Stadshuset and stumbled on the Riddarholmen Church on the way back to the hotel.
We drove to DC last weekend to visit our friends Carlos and Dianne. It was a short visit, but we got to the Mall and the National Gallery, where there is a big chicken. Here is the bird with some props for scale.
So we went to Cape May, at the southernmost tip of the Jersey Shore, for the weekend. We took the Garden State Parkway to Exit 0; surprisingly for a summer weekend, it wasn't jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. As far as we could tell, we were the only ones. We [...]
Took a couple of days to go skiing at Tremblant. Day 1 was warm and soaking wet. Day 2 was brutally cold. We had a great time. We decided the conditions were sufficiently harsh that Peter earned his honorary Canadian badge on his first attempt.
