Yesterday afternoon the kids and I drove up to Chamrousse to see if we could watch any of the Snowboarding festival.  I was skiing up there on Thursday (side note: hard to beat…

For those who have not yet heard..we do have some very exciting news…We are in fact expecting. Yes – that’s not some tricky code for something else…Susan is pregnant The little one is…

For those who have not yet heard..we do have some very exciting news…We are in fact expecting. Yes – that’s not some tricky code for something else…Susan is pregnant The little one is…

Let me just say this upfront…if you are a person who is inclined to get bitter at the good fortune of others, and you currently have over 1m of snow on your grass….maybe…

So today  we have done the last step – en principle  -to get our carte de sejour. That’s right – we may actually get a visa.  We are one step closer to not being illegal immigrants!…

Sometimes – scratch that….. often, things happen here that I just don’t get.  That’s just what happens when you live in a culture other than the one in which you were raised. I…

On our last full day in Rome we ventured out to find the remaining quintesentially Roman things to see.  Basically – all those things that you see in every guide book, that we…

On Wednesday we decided to set our sights for the Vatican. (which technically was the third country we were in since leaving home on Monday) We decided to take the Metro to the…

20 min drive from our house to parking at the side of run so we can just put on our skis at the car and go + Not a cloud in the sky,…

This was our first full day in Rome. It was cool and rainy – but that was the forecast for the length of our stay – so we thought since it wasn’t really…

Rome. The Eternal City. Cradle of the great Roman Empire – and the Republic before it. We had never been to Rome before – so we (all 5 of us) we’re pretty excited…