Author: rcragun
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Europe Trip – day 6 – Venice
Unfortunately, the day we had the most planned in Venice was also the day that it rained. We started out with an 11:00 am walking tour of the city (in the rain) that started at the Royal Gardens (Giardinetti Reali) near Piazza San Marco. Our guide walked us around the Piazza, explaining its history. There…
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Europe Trip – day 5 – travel from Paris to Venice
Most of this day was spent traveling from Paris to Venice, Italy. We spent the morning packing and cleaning the condo and had everything ready by the gate at 10:00, when a van from the same service that dropped us off was supposed to pick us up. We had a little scare as the van…
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Europe Trip – day 4 – Paris
Our excess from the night before had its toll – we didn’t leave the condo this day until about 1:00 pm. The kids and almost everyone else slept in late (I don’t sleep much, especially on trips, but even I slept in until about 9 am). With our ambitions significantly reduced for our last day…
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Europe Trip – day 3 – Paris
This was our first full day in Paris. With the late night activity of the kids we got a slightly later start than I think we wanted, leaving the condo around 11:00 am. This, however, is how travel works when you have young kids. Gary and Rosemary visited Paris a number of years earlier (with…
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Europe Trip – day 2 – arrive in Paris
Once we boarded our 8 hour flight and were settled in, I napped a little, as did Toren, but Debi has found that she can’t sleep when Toren is on her lap, so she didn’t sleep at all. As a result, when we arrived she was exhausted. We had a little scare once we arrived…
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Europe Trip – day 1 – leave Tampa
Debi’s parents are quite frugal, but they do spend money on one particular luxury – travel. Every few years, Debi’s mother, Rosemary, plans a large trip for the entire family. Rosemary’s countless hours of meticulous planning finally came to fruition starting on July 24th, when we left Tampa and flew to Detroit, then to Paris,…
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The Zoo
Because we’re workaholics yet want to spend time with Toren, we’ve worked out our weekends so Debi has Toren in the morning until 1:00 while I work and then I have him from 1:00 until he’s ready to go to bed around 8:00. That’s usually when I take him hiking or biking. To add a…
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Toren’s a little advanced for his age
I let Toren play in the passenger seat of the rental car while we were in Oregon to keep him busy while I got the backpack ready. He loved it and remembered it, so I let him play in the passenger seat in my car one day. Debi went a step further and let him…
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Toren’s picked up body modding
So I mentioned that we’re well on our way to getting our money’s worth out of the annual zoo pass we bought. During one of those visits, the staff at the zoo was handing out rub on tattoos. Here’s Toren showing off his tat’: Hardcore, huh?
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Toren loses a fight…
… to cool whip. Debi let him try it while we were eating pancakes with strawberries the other day. He liked it enough to rub it all over his face, and then into his eyes, at which point he realized the cool whip had the ability to make him cry: He didn’t like cool whip…