Pocket Ellies and Murder Pretty’s
We’re up and at it early this morning. We have a train to catch so we are told the out time has to be extremely strict. For some reason I thought the train station was here in our little English town in the mountains. But I was mistaken. It seems that it is about 40 […]
Buddha needs a partial?
Today we are off to tour Kandy. Its the second largest city in Sri Lanka and a cultural capital. Colombo was tall buildings and bravado- not at all as expected. Kandy is more so exactly what I was picturing for Sri Lanka, although much cleaner and more diverse then I saw coming. And supposedly its […]
Got a belly button you don’t want?
This morning we leave the comfort of the private pool and the incredible Tabbula Rasa staff and head back to the noise of the city- Colombo, to meet our tour group for the rest of our time in Sri Lanka. We’ll be in Colombo a few times, the city kind of feels like its old […]
Blart the Sequel
Muppet nation!! We’re back! Time for the next adventure. And this time it’s Nicole and Garys 25th. So they get to pick- and if we surprised them with Japan- their choice definitely surprised us more…we will begin our trip in Sri Lanka. Thing is-when we travel that far, and have a tour planned, we like […]
still with the toe shoes……
“Dad isn’t doing well Chris. I think it might be soon”, I heard Chris’s sister say through the phone. We had just gotten back from a trip to South Africa and both had a particularly bad case of covid. Our first. They are still checking for covid at the hospital, we won’t be able to […]
Breaking news: Fujisan has moved
Why is Chris home at 10am on a work day? 13 years had gone by in a flash. And last year, we decided to start traveling-life was too short for regrets, and we’d had plenty of ups and downs to make it feel “earned”. Chris gave Nicole an unimaginable budget for a shared anniversary trip- […]
Otter Pandemonium
“We can adopt.” Something we’d talked about before. I knew I could love a child that grew inside someone else- I’d done it. Chris had never been sure he could-but he was desperate now to make me smile again. I watched as they poured the concrete for the basement of mom and dad’s in-law suite […]
THE COUNRY BUMPKINS TAKE TOKYO
“Weird to get snow this late in the year. You heading over to shovel Nicole out? I’m thinking she’ll need it done before dark when she gets home from work.” I said to Chris. “Yeah, let’s go.” It had been a long winter that had spilled over into spring. My first winter married- and my […]
toe shoes and stage 4 clingers….
Desiray in her little white junior bridesmaid dress- trying to make her feel how much a part of this she is-I remember her smile as she put it on in the mirror with me -as I put on mine, with my mom and Nicole helping me step in. Codi in his little tiny tux-looking just […]
Planes, trains and deaf brother-in-laws…
“what the crap do you mean you’re not going????” I said to Nicole when she came to wake me up for the golf day. I took very little notice of her red rimmed eyes. “I just….I can’t. Its not a good day. I can’t go. But you have to go Karen. It’s probably the only […]