Adventuriety
We saw a beautiful rainbow on the drive to Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam. It gave me courage and I almost felt excited about the next ten days. We would fly directly to Kilimanjaro International Airport, a nine hour flight. The flight was smooth, even for my paranoid flyer standards and I got excited when I realized that the huge river below us was the...
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Adventuriety
We are having a great time on our adventure. Yes, there has been some stress and learning and even some tears but so far, this adventure is what we had been hoping for. We wanted to experience more of the world and more of each other and we wanted to be able to plan a little and then be in the moment and see what...
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Adventuriety
We’re all learning on this adventure, every day. Scott learned that Venice is actually in Italy and not in France. He was showing Grant on Google Maps where we were living in Germany and he happened to notice Venice. He asked me if I knew where Venice was and I said, “Duh, it’s in Italy.” I didn’t really say that, but I did know it...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
Miscommunication can be blissful. I had profound realization of this nugget of wisdom on our hike today plus learned a few other good little tidbits. We had a great thirty-six hour mini road trip this weekend. It was fun and we saw some new sights and currency, learned a few things and ate a lot of non-husband approved food. We are getting closer to daily...
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Inspirietry
I saw another rainbow today. It was just as beautiful and just as mysterious as the one that I’d seen in Oberammergau last week, but this one, I found it in an “Antiquitäten & Raritäten” shop in Rorschach, Switzerland. We started out yesterday in Oberammergau with the decision to drive to Lichtenstein for lunch. I don’t really know why, I had mentioned Lichtenstein to Scott...
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Inspirietry
The kids and I were walking back to our apartment after a fun evening at the swimming pool. The forecast had predicted a hot day, but by the time we got to the pool a little after 5 o’clock, clouds were building over the mountains and the air had turned cool. Scott and the kids jumped off of the diving boards and swam for a...
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