Rice Orchards Thanksgiving

We had a lovely, relaxing vacation with the Withrows and the Rice families at Mindy’s girlhood home, Rice Orchards, in Northwood Ohio. Here is a fun little breakdown of our trip, by the numbers, with apologies for a few inside jokes:
days: 3 1/2
nights: 4 (if you count arriving at 3 am [...]

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We’re Off!

The photograph above is of the city of Chattanooga - the bridge to the right is a pedestrian bridge, and the green lawns in the foreground of the picture are a public park. A few blocks away from the far end of the bridge is Greyfriars Coffee House, which sits on Broad Street, the main [...]

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Happy New Year/Still on Vacation

For anyone who might still be reading: the Vendsels are still vacationing in Texas. We have been doing lots of visiting, eating, and movie watching; not a lot of emailing or blogging - so this is a quick note to let everyone know we are still alive!
So far we have had Christmas with Mike’s [...]

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A Most "Capital" Visit!

Life continues at a break-neck pace, but this time last weekend we slowed way down for a delightful tour of D.C. with Brandon and Mindy. Brandon has done a perfect write-up of our visit, to which I can add very little except to say how nice it was to take a mini vacation with [...]

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Princeton

Yesterday we, along with the Withrows, experienced the generousity of Sam and Sue Logan on a little jaunt to Princeton. All six of us cozied up in the Logan’s big sedan and journeyed towards Jersey. Dr. Logan, a Princeton alumn, had told us that there were two things we must see and do: [...]

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swiftly summer fades

I’m home. My bags are unpacked and put away and I am getting organized for the fall semester which is due to begin … next week! Ack!
I arrived back in Philly late on Wednesday night after 6 wonderful days with my parents in Sulphur Springs, Texas. They spoiled and pampered me; of all my summer [...]

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Kentucky Weekend Pictures

I snagged these from our friend Otter’s cool flikr page: a few pictures to share from last weekend.
New Parents:

My new friend Ruth holding Ella Ruth:

Singing:

A mean game of Uno:

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Home-Away-Home Again

Weekend #3 of our four marathon travel weekends* is now over, and today we are unpacking, prioritizing tasks, and recovering our strength from an uber-long day yesterday, which began at 5:00 am in Kentucky and ended in our own sweet bed last night around midnight. It never ceases to amaze me that by way of [...]

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Farm Therapy

Despite this weekend’s heat, we did enjoy a very relaxing time in the country. Something about a pastoral setting is just good for the soul, I think. I didn’t get to take any pictures of the lake or downtown, but I did snap some photos of the B&B.
As I was sipping my coffee from a [...]

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Getaway

Tomorrow we will be getting our first glimpse –through car windows– of parts of the New England coastline as we make our way up to Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Although we have driven once before (about this time last summer) from Philly to upstate New York, we have never been beyond Schenectady. Our road trip will [...]

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