Family Life

Daniel’s Aunty Raich sent him a wooden model plane for his birthday. There’s the picture from the box on the right. He was pretty excited about it. This ranked as a Pretty Cool Gift in his opinion, and he wanted to build it straight away. His younger brothers didn’t want to miss out on the [...]

So I’m stuck in yet another hotel room. I’d been so looking forward to getting home, too. The plan was to arrive home this afternoon, changing planes in Frankfurt along the way. Instead, I got to look out the terminal window as my plane pushed back from the jetway on its way home without me. [...]

I’m mentally gearing up for travel. I have a road trip tomorrow, a weekend jaunt to LA on Thursday, and then a somewhat longer stay in Hungary in about three weeks. Road trips are pretty easy, as long as the weather cooperates. Flying takes quite a lot more organization. I have to book a shuttle [...]

Flew into Vancouver tonight with WestJet. Quite a pleasant flight, but I left work ten hours ago and it’s now 2am in my home town. Way too late to be up blogging. This is the first time I’ve flown domestic since my honeymoon, eight years ago. Every flight between then and now has been part [...]

Today was a public holiday, so we bundled the boys into the car with food, water and sunblock and took off to an airshow. We arrived in time to find a grassy, shady spot and even managed to finish lunch just before the show started. The fighter jets were thrilling for the boys, at first. [...]