We’re just getting our first serious snow of the winter, so bring your warm clothes Mum and Dad! Also, check out our live traffic feed to the left <– it tracks the cities we get visitors from.

Thanksgiving dinner…the turkey carcass Over 3 days in KC we not only ate Thanksgiving dinner, we saved room to try the ribs at both Gates’s and at Fiorelli’s Jack Stack. Arthur Bryant’s had a line that went out the door and wrapped around the building so we’ll try it, and…

We went geocaching on Thanksgiving in Grandview. It was really cold and Miles and Cindy turned back, but Mary, Herb, John and Liam went on to find the first part of a multi-stage geocache. Then on Friday we went to find the second part of the geocache. Initially Miles refused…

Woodhedge a circle of wooden poles near cahokia Cahokia in st louis was once a city of 20,000 native americans who built huge mounds. At the time (1100AD) they were the third highest man made structures in the americas

The new addition glows at night and is really amazing to see. There was also a 19th century music concert. Afterwards we got bbq at gates. Really good.

Myself liam and his friend peter had fun, finding two of the three geo caches we set out to find.

I took Liam and Miles to Book-a-mania at the downtown Harold Washington library yesterday. As planned we met Erin with Hannah and Sophia, and Sarah and Charlie with Alexander and Thomas. More spontaneous meetings included Mayor Daley, Pat the Bunny, the King and Queen of Storybooks, Curious George and the…

I’ve finally joined the rest of the world and now have a digital camera. My much-loved and much-used Canon AE-1, which I bought in 1985, has now joined my “interesting but not really functional camera” display in our house.

We spent the night at mile and andrea’s place down in indiana with a lovely walk on the reopened sand dunes trail and a visit to a farm.

We had a great night celebrating liam and miles soccer achievements. Liam’s team won the u12 league