Category: fun
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Disneyworld Redux (thanks to Hurricane Irma)
Disneyworld!! We have not been since last September. We were planning to go again this September, as a combination birthday/going off to college trip, but Hurricane Irma vetoed that idea. :(. So we rescheduled the trip to last weekend, when Marcus had a 3 day weekend. He brought a friend, Matthew, along for the trip.…
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Asia 2017
Beijing was the first stop on our tour. We went with family friends and since it was their first trip to Beijing, we played tourist. This process was helped disproportionately because our former exchange student was in Beijing at the time. She helped come up with the itinerary and arranged for tickets for many of…
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Summer 2017: Honolulu
I know it seems as if we go to Honolulu all the time, but all I can say is that we aren’t ever there often enough. We were the winning bid at a charity auction for a week at a house in Honolulu belonging to Kathy Ireland (note: our kids had no idea who she…
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Kusama Exhibit
I interrupt my regularly scheduled program (of mostly trips, food, and books) to talk about the Kusama exhibit we saw at the Hirshhorn Museum earlier this week as part of the US-Japan Leadership Program. Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer whose exhibit, Infinity Mirrors, is currently at the Hirshhorn. It is impossible to…
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Spring Break 2017 (aka Being Stalked by Adam Sandler)
The high school senior got to choose where we went for spring break this year, and after some discussion, she decided on Honolulu, so off we went. (Twist our arms!) There was the lovely view from our hotel room: There were the usual fabulously beautiful sunsets, and delicious meals (at The Pig and the Lady,…
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Inn at Little Washington weekend (aka I want to come back in my next life as one of my kids)
As you may have noticed from my blog posts, the Inn at Little Washington is a favorite restaurant of ours, with a combination of stunning food and warm hospitality. (We always feel treated like family when we go.). This past weekend will be remembered in the family chronicles as the Inn at Little Washington weekend.…
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Hawaii (without the kids)
For our annual “ditch the kids” vacation, Jim and I went back to one of our usual haunts—Honolulu. (My parents were kind enough to come and stay with the kids.) It was a beautifully relaxing and restful vacation where we took long walks around Diamondhead and ate our way through the city. Some highlights include:…
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Deer Valley 2017 (aka Flight from DC)
Washington, DC area locals know that every four years in January, it is best to leave town, no matter who has been elected president. Downtown DC is shut down for security reasons, traffic is even more horrible than usual, and the kids get a day off of school. We fled town for Deer Valley at…
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Inn at Little Washington December 2016
Another one of our annual traditions is to go to the Inn at Little Washington after Christmas and spend the night. While Jim and I usually do it with just the two of us, this year, we took the kids. (I know—I want to come back in my next life as one of our kids,…
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A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre
We have an annual holiday tradition of going to see “A Christmas Carol” (this predates our time in Washington, DC and kids, for that matter). The bonus of seeing it in DC is that the play is performed at Ford’s Theatre, leading to the kids’ worst nightmare—a cultural event AND an educational event rolled into…