Utah!
I missed doing a post last week because we were en route to Utah from St. Louis. We really enjoyed our last week with Alex, Hanna, and the boys. We had a great time playing outside with the kids, going to the library and the St. Louis Science Center.
This week we have been in Centerville staying with Margaret (who is such a kind and accommodating host) and having a good mix of family time, outdoor fun, and working on sorting through Nathan’s dad’s office/studio. Our daughter, Lauren, flew in from West Virginia yesterday to ski with her dad. We are enjoying the beautiful, snowy mountains and the relaxed visits with family and friends. We will be here for three more weeks, so if you want to meet up, send me a message!
Missouri
We have had a great week here in Missouri. I’ll give you a short update, but I would also like to make a request. We have shared recommendations for podcasts, books, musicm and the like in the past. Now, we would love to hear from you! What have you been reading? What music or podcasts are you liking lately? Have you seen a good movie? Please comment on this post or reply to my email. We love hearing from our friends and family! Now for what we’ve been up to…
Back to MO
Just a quick post this week. We hunkered down in Ohio/West Virginia and took refuge from the cold. We did lots of cozy things with the grandkids. We took a trip to the library to play and choose a big pile of books. Huck is a little reader now, so it’s fun to find stories that he can read. We spent A LOT of time reading those books–at the library, on the couch, and in a blanket fort. We also did crafts and built lots of Lego. We went with the kids to the children’s museum for a special STEAM class and then hours of play and building after that. We also took the older two out for a special lunch date. It was a great week! We are now back in St. Louis and excited to spend time with the other grandkids! Have a good week!
Back to the Fun
We slowed down a bit this week, but there was some birthday fun and I have details on our trip through the Mississippi Delta and on to Ohio. This is a long post, covering almost three weeks of a busy road trip, so if you just want the bullet points, read the first bit. For the down and dirty details, read on.
From the Big Easy to Music City
Hi! This is just a quick check in from the road. We spent the week on the move. We started in New Orleans, then we drove up through the Mississippi Delta on the Blues Highway. We stopped at lots of smaller places along the way to visit museums and check out the history of the blues and our country. Then we cut across to Alabama to visit Muscle Shoals to tour the recording studio and to see the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. Then from there it was north to Nashville, Tennessee. We are here to visit a friend (Adam Overacker) and to enjoy some more music. See you next week from an old classic, Marietta, Ohio. Hopefully I’ll have time this next week to fill in the details from a very eventful road trip! Enjoy your week!
Hello from…
…warm and sunny New Orleans, LA! We are here for a long weekend to enjoy the delicious food and lots of great jazz and blues. We will check in again next weekend from another city stop on our way back to the grandkids. Have a great week!
Cathedral, Kristiansand
Nathan and Lauren
Norway!
Musicians Hall of Fame
Our Shack–The Crossroad
Mt. Chocolate
Our Missouri Loves
Beverley Minster
Margaret, India, Hugh, & Archie
Huck in the Woods
Carrick-a-Rede suspension bridge
Peter in the Gravel Pit
Liz & Christian at the Schilthorn
Waterfall in the Pyrenees
Sibelius Monument
Grammy & Teddy on the Train
A Tribute
Teddy
On the Bike Trail
Hugh Linnell
Vickburg Battlefield
An Ovine friend
St. John’s College, Oxford
Silver Lake
Guggenheim Bilbao
The Ohio Company Land Office
With the girls (and one English boy)
Big Gator Friend
Christmas Morning
Lauren
Simon, Poppy’s newest fan
Happy Halloween!
Finnish folkloric show
X marks the Spot (for treasure? No! the spot where we were!
Niece India and Nephew Bodhi
The Vasa
Parade Route
General Rufus Putnam, Nathan’s 3rd cousin, 8 times removed
Nathan at Dunmore Head
Swiss Alarm Clock
Huck’s adventure in the woods
Workin’ at the Ball Factory
T.Rex
A wet day in Konstanz
On the Üetliberg
Dragon Huck
Nobody Expects THE Michael Palin!
Thomas the Tank Engine Story Time
At the Schloss Kyborg
Lunch Crew
Mt. Etna
SweetArthur
Hughman
Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon
To Southampton
Liz with Aunt Margrit
Max in the mountains
Delta Blues Museum
At the Chocolarium
Amongst the Ferns
The Crazy House
Teddy Pilot and Peter Pirate
Sunken Trace
Circuit de Pineta
Bell Canyon Hike
Nathan – Copenhagen
Arthur
Kilkenny Castle
Archie
Ice Skating
Piper & Grammy
Concert
Royal Albert Hall
Children’s Museum
Jared doing a handstand at the top of the Üetliberg a la Grosspapi
Bob, Jill, Jana, and Torr
Teddy & friend
Em and India Saturday Cartoons
Maxim Vengerov
Little Gator Friend
Mission Concepcion
Ready for presents
Fish Market, Kristiansand
Sognefojord
Boys in the Back
Alpine Cow
Cocoa Time
Storytime with Grandpa
Colorado Rockies
Some of the great entertainment on the ship: James Doughty
Museum del Jamòn – AKA a Spanish place of worship
Grand Ole Opry
Nathan, Poppy, & Liz
Teddy PlayDoh
Nathan & Poppy at Rheinfall
Peter
Hugh Smiles
Cooking Pot at Dunfanaghy Workhouse
Nathan atop Gowbarrow Fell, Lake District
Luzern Kapellbrücke
Huck: Ready For Adventure
So many Steps
Adam showing us the ropes in Nashville
Teddy & Peter at train night
Irish beauty
With the Emerald Princess
Ohio River Trail
The finished cookies
Bikers
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Rostock, Germany
Huck & Peter
Traffic Jam
At the Airport
Lighthouse and the “Teepot” cafe – Rostock
Royal Opera House
Poppy with th Hagenbuch cat
Aqueduct – Segovia, Spain
Kylemore Abbey
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Emerald Princess, Rostock
With the ship
Constantine statue in York
Wildhaus Holiday
Sunrise at sea
Torc Waterfall, Killarney NP
Rostrevor Forest
Grianan of Aileach ring fort
San Antonio Skyline
Christmas PJs
Alpine Beauties
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August Snow Storm
Max and Margaret
Teddy loves Ice Cream!
Up the Beanstalk
Max Violin
The Aqueduct – Segovia, Spain
Muscle Shoals Studio
Gone Fishin’
On the Camino
Passing under the Great Belt Bridge
Harbor, Stockholm
Bridge of Sighs, Oxford
A Prairie Home Companion
Belfast City Hall
Skjolden
Santiago de Compostela
Photography Reality
At the Hagia Sophia
At the Schloss
Old Town, Tallinn
Personalized Toblerone care of Cousin Simon
Kayak Jill
Ayyyy! The Fonz
Archie
Happy Independence Day!
Nathan’s sister, Liz, and her husband, Christian
New Orleans–Jackson Square
On the Trail
Goofy McGoofball
Airboat Tour
Piper & Grammy
Dragon Piper
At Whitney Plantation
Derwentwater, Lake District
University of Cork, Stone Corridor
The Mueller Quartet
Bay of Kotor
Ebenezer Baptist
Nathan with a statue of Pablo de Sarasate in Pamplona
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Kayaking the Thünersee
Tuckered
Ohio River Trip
Christmas Market-Berlin
Utah Symphony
Peter Playing Choo-Choos
Piper, Hugh, & Huck
Thrill Walk, Birg
Teddy and Bubbles
At the summit
Bloody Foreland
Boarding
Teddy’s The King of The Swingers
Interlaken
Peter and the “rains”
Cotswolds cuteness
Piper in the Red Dress
Jill and Nephew Ammon
OMSI with El and Adia
Seealpsee
Tower Grove Park in St. Louis
New Year’s Eve
Monks’ Mound
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Wildflowers everywhere in the Alps
Hadrian’s Wall
Max
Demonstrating a proper bow hold, Max is eagerly awaiting the go-ahead from the doctor so he can play the violin again.
Sarah & Poppy and Bran Castle
Huck and Piper on the river trail
Piper cropped
Next Purchase…A Bigger Bike for Nathan
Skyline
Peter & Teddy Bikes
January ’25
Climbing Croagh Patrick
Sternwheeler Fun
Peter in the Discovery Room
The Big Fish, Belfast
Just a Drop of Maple Sap
Nephew Michael
Huck ready for Legoland
I Went Down to the Crossroad
Cervantes, Don Q, & Sancho
World of Coke
Beethoven String Quartet
These instruments were given to Beethoven ~1800.
Nathan & Max
Little Buddy Hugh
A Day at the Park
Jill in Nooksia National Park, waiting for her mushroom soup lunch
Rucking in Mueller Park
Teddy & Pumpkin
Red Rocks
Apples in the Garage
Blossoms on the Hill — we can see many trees in bloom from the kitchen window
Kilkenny Castle
Don’t you love Colonial Era Headstones?
Huck & Piper Bikes
Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau
Enoch
Piper at Work
River Cruise
MLK Center
Santa Cruz Sunset
Kastellet – Copenhagen
Chicago Theatre
Teddy
On the Moon
The Band
Jared on the Schilthorn
Peter & Pumpkin
Positano
The Vippefyret
Emery & the Little Big Band
Matt R. Horn
Rheinfall
All-Terrain Archie
Thorvaldsen’s Christus
Family Fun
Matterhorn
Great-Niece, Sariah (Lydia’s daughter)
Piper Riding the Little Train
Jana & Hugh
Lego!
On our bike ride in Waterford
The Hikers: Lauren, nieces Emery, India, and nephew Bodhi
Nathan in the Pyrenees
Tacos in Dallas
Zephyr at the Science Museum
Rock of Cashel
Grotto
Carters Vintage Guitars
A Day in Bern
Luzern
Laziz with Emily and Kevin
Peter and his Bumpa
Jill – Copenhagen
Peter on the ‘rain
Öeschinensee
Piper and a Lego friend
Kinsale
Bern Switzerland Temple
Weekend in Atlanta
Huck & Piper
Walensee
Nathan at Langafoss
St Regis
Peter
Teddy Giggles
House of Blues
Chester is cool!
Peter with his new Duplo
A Hike to Slieve Martin
At the Waterford Crystal factory
Time for a show
Hill of Tara
