I mentioned in the post about Lucas’s birthday that we used one of our exciting musical flower birthday candles from Beijing. In case you’ve never been privy to a demonstration of these fantastic contraptions, I will try to describe them well enough to do them justice. You start with a large blossom-shaped blob of pink [...]
Although it might be a little more paperwork to vote, one nice thing about living overseas during an election year is that you don’t have to put up with any of the mud-slinging campaign ads. I absolutely can’t stand them! And lucky me, no fiscally-responsible campaign managers bother to plaster them across foreign television channels [...]
I’m updating my online photo albums this evening, and I have the TV turned on with the Travel Channel (UK) in the background. A program just ended, and in the gap between shows, they inserted a 60-second “Travel Snapshot.” By coincidence, it happened to be for Oslo. The stock video footage, innocuous music, bland voiceover, and basic [...]
I was flipping channels this afternoon and ended up watching half an hour of bull-riding, because Maia was so excited about it. I guess you can tell she was born and raised in Texas!
As mentioned earlier, my best friend Erin came to visit us last week. While we were at work, they did some of the usual touristy things like taking the ferry over to Bygdøy to visit the museums. Over the weekend, we decided to do some things around town together that Lucas and I haven’t [...]