Monthly Archives: December 2009
2009 in review
2009 was, pretty much without a doubt, the best and craziest year of my life. It wasn’t the easiest, but I had ridiculous amounts of fun living it. Snapshots: I acquired a number of colorful shirts while playing on several kickball and dodgeball teams in the winter, spring, and summer. . Early April found me [...]
Last Day in Rome
I figure I’ll get the announcement about who won my blog giveaway out of the way before I write up my last day in Italy, just because Brittney nagged me about it. ;-) I swear this contest wasn’t rigged, but the winner is my mom, with her guess of 1,974! The total number of pictures [...]
My niece, amused by the other baby in the window (her reflection.) :-)
My niece, amused by the other baby in the window (her reflection.) :-), originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. I took this yesterday on Christmas, when I was playing with my niece. I loved watching her fascination with the “other baby”–she was giving it big, sloppy kisses on the glass! I missed getting a picture of that, [...]
Day 6: Rome, again
Note: for some reason I was light on pictures on this day. I’m not sure why–I know it was a low-key, but I still usually manage to take a ton of pictures. Oh well. Day 6, Friday, started early when Joel! had to get ready to leave for the airport. :-( All of us went [...]
Day 5: Naples, er, Rome
Day 5, Thanksgiving, dawned quite a bit earlier than any of us had planned. I woke up around 3:30 and discovered that John had quietly been getting sick since before midnight. I gave him some tylenol I’d brought (as he had a fever) and some saltines, but without getting too graphic, he was no better [...]
Day 4: The Amalfi Coast
The fourth day started out quite wonderfully. Why? Well, for the first time the whole trip, we slept in. Ahhh, sleep. We were up and out the door by around 10:00 though, so that we could catch a bus to Positano and then to Amalfi, to see what neat things there were to see. As [...]
I caught you a partridge, but I eated it
In case you don’t get the reference in the post title, it’s this internet meme. A veterinarian friend of mine is holding a 12 Days of Petmas roundup on her blog, and I volunteered to take Day 4 (4 calling birds, in case you don’t remember the song.) So this evening I decided to take [...]
Day 3: Pompeii
I’m going to try something somewhat different in this post. In an attempt to not flood you with quite as many pictures as I’d like, I’m going to try linking to some of them instead. If you hold the mouse over the link but don’t click on it, it’ll tell you if it’s to Flickr [...]
Rome – Day 2
As always, there are more pictures in the Flickr gallery for my trip than I’ve actually posted here–I’m trying to just cover the highlights here. :-) I think my biggest complaint about anything this whole trip was the hotel beds. On our second day in Rome (our first morning), I woke up and announced to [...]
Kari’s cheap travel tips (aka how I travel so much on a charter school teacher’s salary)
As I was writing up the post for day 2, I started to write a list of cheap travel tips. After I’d finished, I took a look at it and realized that it was really long enough to be its own post, so I figured I’d post it as such, and I’ll get the day [...]