Six years gone

Here’s the photo and post I put on both Facebook and Instagram today: In December 2014, to celebrate my parents’ upcoming 50th wedding anniversary, my sister and I bought a photo package. A photographer came to our house and took a bunch of photos of the family, both posed and candid. This photo was taken…

Trip to Yellowstone – part 4 (Monday & Tuesday, 10/30-31)

Checkout from our West Yellowstone AirBnB was at 10 am, but a couple of us were up early and spent the early morning reading and drinking coffee (guess who?) But soon enough, it was time to get the check-out items completed. Thankfully, this house’s list wasn’t too bad – run the dishwasher, take out the…

Trip to Yellowstone – part 3 (Sunday, 10/29)

Since we’d gotten up early the day before, we took it a bit easier on Sunday. The plan was to go out to breakfast then head to the park. We had our sights set on a pancake house that was nearby the house. MT thought he’d seen a sign in the window about it being…

Trip to Yellowstone – part 2 (Saturday, 10/28)

The plan was to leave early in order to get to the park either at sunrise or shortly thereafter. Sandy and I got up early and (she) made coffee and eggs. I preheated the oven and put the biscuits in. Breakfast was ready at 7 am, and everyone generally complied with our plan to head…

Vacation – Days 4-6 in Utah (and some devastating news)

Wednesday Wednesday was a WFH day for Sandy, and she planned to take a half day, so we resumed our positions at the dining room table and got our work on. After we were done, it was time to go to lunch. We decided on Delice French Bakery & Cafe. We decided to go halfsies…

Days 11-12: Barcelona

I was too tuckered out to write last night, so here’s a recap of the last two days. Day 11 Sandy & I have enjoyed our fairly early morning walks around the Gothic Quarter areas so we did it again. This time we stopped first at La Boqueria and had another look around. We bought…

Day 10: Barcelona

Sandy and I set out again fairly early this morning to get some breakfast. We ended up making kind of a large circle around the Gothic Quarter. We finally stopped at a little corner cafe next to the Santa Maria del Pi church called Giovanni where we had an amazing croissant and a so-so cafe…

Day 9: Barcelona

The last few days we’ve been getting going around 11 am which is when we’d get something for breakfast and a coffee. That wasn’t working too well for me since I wake up pretty early. So this morning, Sandy and I left Mom sleeping and we went to a small bakery for breakfast and coffee…

Day 8: Barcelona

We didn’t get going today until 11 am, and I was a bit ‘hangry’ by then. We went to Pasteleria Escriba and had croissants and coffee, and I felt right again. We had 12 pm tickets to tour Palau Güell, containing early work of Antoni Gaudi, and I’m here to tell you, it was stunning….

Day 7: Barcelona

Okay, I’m getting all caught up tonight! Here we go! We all woke up fairly early but still didn’t get out the door until a little after 9:30 am. We had a plan to go to the El Born neighborhood. On our way, we passed a delightful little coffee place where we all had a…