travel

These are my parents: Look at them!  Do you see that light just oozing out of those smiley faces?  I love them so much.  And they have loved each other for over FIFTY YEARS.  Yep, their anniversary is coming up this summer. So they have been trying to figure out…

We start school TODAY here in the desert.  And I’m sure there will be lots to say about that, but for now I’m in denial, so let’s go ahead and continue with the adventure in NYC with my bookend children. Part 1 is HERE. This trip was a little tricky…

Word of warning…there are a lot of pictures in this post.   But we’re used to lots of pictures here on 71toes, right? A few years ago I had the opportunity to take my three middle girls to NYC (part 1 HERE, and part 2 HERE).  When we got back, raving…

Last week Dave, Elle and I lucked out and got to spend a couple days in one of the most beautiful spots I’ve ever visited: Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. We drove and hiked and rowed and oooooo’d and ahhhhhhh’d at all that beauty. You may wonder why we…

…right here: iceland from grace pothier on Vimeo. Made me tear up as I watched it again just now. I’ll be forever grateful for these videos sweet Grace, and grateful to Elle too who took so much of the footage.  I am one lucky mama.

Our second (and last) day in Iceland was spent visiting two waterfalls and driving for hours on end to get to the glacier lagoon. It seems kind of crazy that you could spend a day visiting two waterfalls and driving for hours on end to see a lagoon chock full…

Back in June, we went to Iceland en route home from Europe. When you fly Iceland Air you can have free stopovers there and we were excited to have a bonus adventure before we returned home. We expected a lot, because we’ve seen the pictures and heard grand stories.  And…

Ok, here are two more of Grace’s videos. Makes me want to pack my bags and head right back on over to those magical places. Just FYI on this France one…the shot with Lucy that looks like she has a bloody nose is actually her chocolate ice cream between Musee…

See this girl right here? And see where she is pointing?   Yeah, she walked all 528 stairs to get to that little balcony (called the “Golden Gallery”) at St. Paul’s Cathedral. For reals.  This after walking all the stairs in the to the second platform at the Eiffel tower and…

Grace has whipped up a few videos from our Europe trip. You know when something helps you remember something precious, it becomes even more precious to you?  Well, that’s what these videos do.  I am in love with them. Here’s the first one from Switzerland.  Make sure to enlarge it…