USA to DE
Early on Monday morning, we drove from Marietta to the airport in Columbus. We were sad to leave the grandkiddos, but we were also ready to start this next part of the journey.
Nobody Expects…
If your first thought was, "the Spanish Inquisition", then you're in the right place :D. This was our last week in the States and we spent it in expected and unexpected ways. The expected was spending time with Lauren's family. We did a few more projects in the house...
Country Roads
We made it to Lauren's house! It was good to drive up their bumpy little road and to squeeze our West Virginia crew. It's been a pretty laid-back week. We worked on a few projects at Lauren's place (shelves in the laundry room and pantry and battling a population of...
Reality Bites
On Monday, we packed the car, bid farewell to Alex's family and drove away. We were bound for Lauren & Bo's place in West Virginia. About an hour later, in rural Illinois, the car alerts started going off, the car started to behave strangely, and by the time we...
Swiss National Day
We made it back to St. Louis and started right back to the usual: projects at Alex's house and hanging out with the fam. August first is Swiss National Day, marking the date of the signing of the original Letter of Confederation in 1291, so we decided to do a few...
B-day & Chicago
Howdy! Remember when I said this trip would be less vacation-like and more like real life? Well, this week was a bit of both. The beginning of the week was real life. We worked on projects, including patching walls and painting the boys' room at Alex's place....
Max
Demonstrating a proper bow hold, Max is eagerly awaiting the go-ahead from the doctor so he can play the violin again.