Category: travel
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Utah Trip – December 30th
I managed to schedule a HALO party on Debi’s birthday (my bad), but Debi was a good sport about it. Her parents took her to one of her favorite restaurants for lunch – Marie Calendars – then we drove up to Morgan for the HALO party. The party didn’t start until 6:30, so we did…
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Utah Trip – December 29th
We were supposed to go up to Ogden to meet with some of my childhood friends, but a massive afternoon snow storm that dumped about 10 inches of snow on West Jordan postponed that trip. Instead I spent the day working on Rosemary’s computer and otherwise not getting much done. As far as Rosemary’s computer…
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Utah Trip – December 28th
I don’t remember what we did on the 28th. I think I spent part of the day working on Rosemary’s computer and Debi went shopping. But here’s a video of Toren riding the horse in the basement: He really got into it!
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Utah Trip – December 27th
We got off to a slow start on the 27th – our sleep schedule was off most of the time we were in Utah, and Toren’s was all over the place. But in the afternoon we went to America’s Incredible Pizza Company, which is basically like Chuck-E-Cheese on steroids. Toren spent half the afternoon on the…
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Utah Trip – December 26th
It snowed. It wasn’t mountains of snow, but enough to play in. Since Toren hadn’t seen snow, we bundled him up and went outside to play. We made a snow man: Here’s Toren sculpting the snowman: And the finished snowman: Here’s the snowman with its eye intact: And here’s a snow fort we made: Toren…
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Utah trip – December 25th
We went back to Brent and Suzy’s house for Christmas morning and had another delicious meal, including chocolate peppermint pancakes. We then opened some presents. The hit was an insulated rolling bag Rosemary and Gary gave us for picnics and hikes. It was a hit because Toren decided it was his and he was ready…
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Utah trip – December 24th
We’re back from Utah. It was almost two weeks, but seems like it was shorter as we did a lot in a short amount of time. Here’s the brief run down with pictures and videos… We flew out on the 24th, with a layover in Houston. Here’s Toren playing with a warning sign in the…
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Cambridge, England – day 2
This was the one day I had for doing sightseeing as I was in Cambridge during finals and had a lot of grading to do. I started the day with a visit to a church. As a sociologist of religion, I periodically go to church to see what the “natives” are doing. In England I…
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Cambridge, England – Day 1
My university was kind enough to fund another trip to England for a workshop (put on by the NSRN). This time the workshop was in Cambridge (I was in Oxford last year). I had a bit of a scare last year with a flight being delayed when I was leaving, so I decided to arrive…
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Toren on the beach
In early October we attended the wedding of one of my colleagues. It was on the beach in St. Petersburg. Toren + beach = playing in the sand Toren also got to run around during the reception, but he wasn’t particularly disruptive, despite running all over the hotel. We spent the night in the hotel…