29 October 2010 5:50 AM
October 28, 2010 We started the day with some schoolwork before we headed downtown for lunch. We had been invited to lunch by April Pedersen, who is on the board of CIVIC. Shelly from CIVIC also joined us. We met up at a great vegan café called Java Green. The read more…
28 October 2010 6:40 AM
October 27, 2010 We had gotten a tip from Shelly at CIVIC that we should visit the National Museum of the American Indian. We removed the natural history museum from our to do list and headed downtown this morning. The building is a work of art in its own right: read more…
27 October 2010 4:16 AM
Lundi 26 octobre 2010 Animaux vivants ou empaillés? Nous étions prêts à notre heure habituelle, avec comme objectif pour la journée de visiter le musée d’histoire naturelle. Avant de passer la porte, on a regardé la météo et on s’est rendu compte que le temps prévu pour demain était de read more…
26 October 2010 8:35 AM
October 25, 2010 The weather forecast had foreseen rain for today, so we decided it would be a good day for a museum. We got our car and headed for the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia. The museum was like the Intrepid museum’s big brother. Viktor and read more…
25 October 2010 9:39 AM
October 24, 2010 Not too long after the proverbial 11am time slot we managed to stick our necks out of the apartment. Having learnt a few lessons yesterday we let the car rest. Today’s goal was the National Mall area, which is a monument lovers equivalent to a pub walk. read more…
25 October 2010 6:04 AM
October 23, 2010 We are prepared to lose a day when crossing the date line, but hadn’t planned on losing one in Washington DC. We were all tired after arriving late and had decided to not put on any alarms. We got up at around 10am. Hélène had a quick breakfast read more…
23 October 2010 7:06 AM
October 22, 2010 Time to leave New York, a week has passed very fast. We had a flight at 1:27pm and could take it easy this morning. Mandatory photo, Marius. Another CRJ900, boooooring. After a short flight we landed in Washington DC. We are very happy with our backpacks and read more…
22 October 2010 9:07 AM
October 21, 2010 This morning Hélène went out to get some bread and we had a quick lunch in the hotel room so we could get started early. We’ve had many challenges in doing the kids schoolwork on the iPads for their net based school. The iPads work very nicely read more…
21 October 2010 7:20 AM
October 20, 2010 We really tried to get going earlier this morning, but one delay led to another. I think we will just have to accept that we need to keep a certain slow rhythm when we are traveling like this with 3 kids. After a new eggs in a read more…
20 October 2010 8:15 AM
October 19, 2010 Another lazy morning and another round of eggs on a roll at Martinelli Bros. Things often take time in a family of 5 and when 3 family members needed to go do the big do in the restroom just as we were heading out we got delayed read more…
