I just came back from a week at Lake Tahoe. The weather was beautiful, the water was clear, and the company delightful. It was a perfect vacation of reading, hiking, water skiing, relaxing, and eating. While I was there I took my first foray into high altitude baking and whipped up a batch of ginger [...]
by Simmie on March 12, 2010
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Ok, I’m on the world’s slowest internet connection, so we’ll see how this goes. I’m in Munich! I slept in kind of late today which wasn’t the greatest idea. Turns out since it’s the off season, pretty much everything closes early here. So with a late start, there was a lot to cram in today. [...]
by Simmie on March 11, 2010
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Ok, I’m back to recap to you my exciting travels of the past two days. My nose has stopped running like a leaky faucet and I appear to be able to stay up past 10 PM, so things are looking up. Yesterday we got to see a whole bunch of stuff. Unfortunately, most of the [...]
by Simmie on March 9, 2010
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That’s right, the clock is rounding 12:30 AM and I’m pleased to say I’m still awake. Hopefully I finish writing this post before I fall asleep, but no promises. Today we finally got to our finished product; the whole reason we’re here in Vienna. We spent a lot of the day playing with our big, [...]
by Simmie on March 8, 2010
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Let’s just say the hotel rooms are…a little warm. We’ve all turned our heat completely off and have been sleeping with the windows open, but man, the temperature in this room is HOT. In other news, the floors of the bathroom are heated which one wouldn’t normally think about, but once you’ve experienced it, I’m [...]
by Simmie on March 7, 2010
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Made it! Back in Vienna, pooped but excited. All and all, the trip wasn’t too bad. The lovely Andrew dropped me off at the airport and apparently with my big sweatshirt, my big jacket, and windpants, I look like a hooligan. I managed to make it through the ticketing line alright, but before going through [...]
by Simmie on August 23, 2009
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I’m currently sitting in the Prague airport taking advantage of their s-u-p-e-r-s-l-o-w internet connection, and I thought I write up a little summary of my trip. But first things first: 1. I am currently sitting next to members of the 2008 USA Paraolympic team. I’m pretty sure they are the archery team who just competed [...]
The hills are alive with the sound of musiccccccccccc. That’s right, I’m in Salzburg. Land of Mozart and Julie Andrews. I can’t believe it’s 11 PM already – the day flew by. Calvin and Annie were gracious enough to let me hitch a ride with them to Salzburg so I didn’t have to take the [...]
by Simmie on August 16, 2009
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It’s been a long day. I haven’t had a proper sleep in about 36 hours. It’s been fun though, so no complaints here. We arrived at the airport and quickly got a taxi to take us to the hotel. There are 7 of us plus a baby and surprisingly everything went pretty smoothly. Having a [...]
by Simmie on August 16, 2009
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I’m in Vienna! I don’t have much time. We just got here an hour ago. It’s 4:20 AM EST, but it’s 10:20 AM here so we’re off for some sight seeing adventures. The plane ride wasn’t too bad after the first two hours when small child was screaming holy heck. I then spent the remaining [...]