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Our First Trip to Nantucket: Day 1

June 25, 2010

Four kids in a van, a five-hour drive (without air-conditioning, and it was HOT), then two hours on the ferry — our trip to Nantucket went pretty well, considering.

Landon took a nap in the car just when he was ready to have a melt-down about being strapped in, and the kids had a [...]

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Traveling With a Toddler — Day 6: Dogs, Pigs, and Lots of Running

July 23, 2009

(If you want to see the previous days, just search for “traveling with a toddler”)
Day six of our Germany trip went something like this:
Thore and Thilo came into our room in the morning to wake us up to get the day going. The day starts a lot earlier in the country! Karen was outside to [...]

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Traveling With a Toddler — Day 5: Train Ride, Farm Life, and More Vacuums

July 12, 2009

Recounting the fifth day of our Germany trip:
One of my best girlfriends, Danja, who I have known since we were three, invited us to come over for breakfast. We had a nice time with her and two other girlfriends.

I am always the one behind the camera, so I am glad I asked Danja to take [...]

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Traveling With a Toddler — Day 4: Bremen, Music, and a Toad

July 8, 2009

Recounting the fourth day of our Germany trip. Please bear with me here, I have so many great pictures of this day. I hope you enjoy them!
After eating a nice, cheap breakfast (Brötchen, Eier, Käse, and Marmelade) at a local supermarket restaurant with Nani and Opa (I inherited being frugal from my dad!)…

…Landon and Nani and I took the [...]

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Traveling With a Toddler — Day 3: Wurst, Twins, and Butter Cake

July 4, 2009

Recounting the third day of our Germany trip:
After breakfast, Landon and I drove with Nani to the local supermarket to get our usual stash of candy and chocolate we always bring back to America. I couldn’t help but take a picture of L in front of the Wurst (sausage) section and the long aisle dedicated [...]

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Traveling With a Toddler — Day 2: Garden, Soup, and Vacuum

July 1, 2009

Recounting the second day of our Germany trip:
Our first night in Bremen was a little rough. I was totally exhausted by the time nighttime rolled around since I had basically been up for two days. But since the sun doesn’t go down until 10 at night in the summer in Germany and L was on U.S. [...]

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Traveling with a Toddler — Day 1: Airplane and Car Rides

June 25, 2009

Since I wasn’t able to blog much while away, I want to recount my Germany trip with Landon and share the many great pictures I took:
Landon and I flew from Newark, NY (around 5 p.m.), to Hamburg, Germany, to make our every-six-months-or-so pilgrimage to my parents and to see my friends. Don drove us to the airport [...]

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Hamburg, then Home to New York

June 21, 2009

It’s time to pack. I just edited the last few articles for THE magazine, then I might pack a little more before going to bed next to Landon, who has been sleeping for a few hours. We are sleeping in my childhood bed, which is tiny, in my old room. Landon and I will visit [...]

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