A Week In Venice

Venice! What more is there to say? Well... the pasta is for shame! The prosecco is a dream. The vaporetto attendants are not to be trifled with. The city is magic. Crowded, crumbling magic. Go get lost there. We did. Several times a day. Here are some pics:

Grand Canal in Venice. First day there.

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We're Featured On "Almost Fearless"

When you do something a little unusual, like traveling for a year and blogging about it, very quickly you find out that it's not so unusual after all, because you get connected in some way with everyone else doing the same thing.  Bob and I have admired Christine Gilbert and her blog

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Black Pudding and Tea -- £4

We grabbed lunch in a tiny, grungy old dive in Dundee called The New Popular Restaurant yesterday. 5 tables total, waitresses in hair nets, awesomeness! The menu had exactly this: White

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Where We've Been, And Where We're Going - Part 1

The other day Owen was talking about Magic The Gathering game strategy (it happens a lot these days), and he said, "Sometimes I don't like making a move unless I'm guaranteed success".  

Bob started laughing. "Owen - you're in the wrong family. A guarantee of success seems to be against our better principles".  

Owen was giggling. "We're From Here To Uncertainty, not From Here To Success"

"Yeah - we're From Here To... wait, where are we again?" Eleanor chimed in.

It went on a bit - our family laughing at our strange, meandering life without guarantee or, at times, even a loosely cohesive plan. In that vein I present you with the itinerary of which we are currently in the middle:

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A List Of Things We Miss

We've been gone just over 3 months now and of course we miss our friends and family, but there are also some other pretty specific things we find ourselves particularly pining for. Here are our lists in no particular order...

Brenna's List:

• Homeschool Park Day
• My Bookclub
• Trader Joe's
• Buying groceries on Sundays
• Looping
• Breaking Bad
• My Le Creuset dutch oven
• California wine (I feel guilty when I buy it in Europe)
• Our friend Gerry's BBQ
• Sephora
• All Things Considered on NPR
• Ben the babysitter
• Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City
• Little Motorboat

Owen's List:

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