Stratford-upon-Avon
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | 1 Comment »Our very last day in England was spent walking the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of English playwright William Shakespeare. Sadly, the entire town is a tourist trap. However, one of the quieter places to visit is the cathedral where ...
Shrugborough
Monday, June 28th, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels | No Comments »We spent our last Saturday in England with good friends, the Drijfhout family, at Shrugborough. If you only have a little bit of time and want a taste of England this is a really great place to visit. It had ...
Birthday Boy!
Sunday, June 27th, 2010 Posted in Family, Our House | No Comments »We celebrated the birthday of a wonderful 7 year-old! For his cake he asked me to copy some Playmobil toys--his Pteranodon on a tree. [photopress:IMGP0901.JPG,full,pp_image] [photopress:IMGP0898.JPG,full,pp_image] [photopress:IMGP0908.JPG,full,pp_image] [photopress:IMGP0910.JPG,full,pp_image] [photopress:IMGP0911.JPG,full,pp_image] Enjoy! Diana
Ragley Hall
Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels | 1 Comment »The churches in the Birmingham area invited one another to come together at Ragley Hall. There was a house to view, a craft and garden fair, as well as some informally organized games to play. [photopress:IMGP0575.JPG,full,pp_image] [photopress:IMGP0588.JPG,full,pp_image] [photopress:IMGP0576.JPG,full,pp_image] Playing Parachute games: [photopress:IMGP0585.JPG,full,pp_image] [photopress:IMGP0586.JPG,full,pp_image] Emma thinking it was ...
Winchester
Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | No Comments »On our way home from Bournemouth we spent a day in Winchester. Looking back on the pictures gives me the goosebumps. There was so much history in a relatively small area of land. Winchester was the pre-medieval capital city of England ...
Bournemouth
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | No Comments »We visited a fellow home educating family in Bournemouth and had a wonderful time getting to know them. We were introduced to them via a family from Oxford whom we met while in church in London back in June. It ...
Stonehenge
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Travels | No Comments »After visiting friends in Bristol we drove further south to Bournemouth. Stonehenge was more or less on the way, so we stopped in there as well. It was windy and cold, so we 'ran 'round the block' as fast as ...
Baddesley Clinton and Packwood House
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels | No Comments »We purchased a year pass to the National Trust sites and haven't had much chance to use it. Once we were back in the UK we decided to make the most of our pass. The first free day we had ...
Zwolle and Kampen
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 Posted in Family, Travels | No Comments »Pete's Dad was born in Zwolle and went to school for his last two years in the Netherlands in Kampen. Pete's Opa also spent the last 10 years of his life in Kampen. So we toured these two towns with ...
13 Years and Counting
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 Posted in Family, Our House | No Comments »On the evening of our 13th wedding anniversary Pete and I treated our four children to a four course dinner. We pretended that we were at a very nice resturant with a dressed up dinnner table and served them waitress ...