Dead Celebs! Lance Armstrong’s reputation and Betsy Ross. Our fellow dead celebs included Kodachrome film (read this about kodachrome), 2 Elvis’s, 3 Phyllis Dillers, the polar icecaps, The Last Old Liberal Mourning the Passing of George McGovern, Donna Summer, Andy Griffith, Mike Wallace, Carl Sagan, James Joyce, and the classic…

It was brought to my attention recently that I never posted from our super fun trip to Danielle and Chris’s wedding in Minneapolis back in July. In fact the blog has really fallen behind, I need to have a word with my intern about it. Anyway, I have access to…

Congratulations and good luck liam and miles on your first day of school! Junior year and 6th grade… wow!  

At the end of a really great summer, and a very relaxing Labor Day weekend, we realized that two museum exhibits we’ve been meaning to see both closed today. So we got up early and did a museum marathon. First, we drove with our bikes to the 31st Street harbor…

Miles took all these photos at the Taranga Zoo. The lion photos in particular are really amazing — the animals were expecting to be fed, from an area right above the viewing window. So they were standing really still and looking right at and over us! [slideshow]  

The surfing lessons that Colette got Liam and Miles got a bit complicated in terms of scheduling, mostly because we only had one full weekend in Sydney. It turns out the best day for the boys to surf was the Saturday morning before our flight out at noon or so.…

The next day we went east from the ferry station at Manly. That way took us past the beach and up to some really scenic spots, much more open and less wooded than the other walk. Later that night, we met Colette then Colman at the opera house to check…

We crossed the harbor twice to take the coastal walks from Manly, a suburb on the north east side of greater Sydney. It’s really beautiful there, we had two really great days walking in very different settings. The first day, we walked to the west of the ferry station. Manly…

I think I left off the Sydney photos with our trip to the fish market. That was a really full day! After leaving the fish market, we took a taxi to the Harbour Bridge and at Colette’s suggestion walked across, stopping in the first pylon to have a good look…

When we were in Denver, we took the opportunity to do a bit of mountain stuff. On the day of the wedding we drove up to Red Rocks (that’s nearly an Australian kind of name!) and took a look around.