Category: Family
Italy Day 2 – Bike Tour of Rome, Ostia Antica
Day 2 Walked past The Colosseum to Top Bike Tours. The bikes were nice (good shocks are helpful on cobblestone) and our tour guide Federico was awesome. We had one other couple in our group. An unfortunate highlight of the tour was when Federico had us stop at one of the many drinking fountains in…
A week in Italy
Day 1 We checked in at Casa Il Rosario, a Catholic nunnery-slash-hotel. The location was excellent, a couple of blocks from The Colosseum. The nuns made a mean breakfast with homemade yogurt, granola, and pastries. The hot chocolate machine was amazing and so was the lingonberry juice. We walked to the Borghese Gallery. The Borgheses…
The kind-of-annual Christmas taffy pull
Most years we make vinegar taffy at Christmastime. Here’s a time lapse we did in 2015 and a few photos of pulls from the past.
Cold snowmobiling in Idaho
The high was 9 degrees F the day after Christmas. But when you have access to a snowmobile and sled for the afternoon, you go anyway. Music by Tyler Larson from the excellent 8-Bit Hymnal (free download).
