Pisa A trip to Pisa of course meant we had to take six million photos of the leaning tower. If I had a euro for every time I saw someone doing the hand on the tower pose, our airfare would have been paid for. This was also the beginning of the ever repeating theme of …
Category Archives: Vacation
Italy 2010 Day 2
Day 2 started out with breakfast made by Jimi. A simple egg & potato dish and a fruit platter… well he made it look simple. Pienza For our first day trip, we drove the clan to Pienza. This was our first exposure to the small meat and cheese shops we quickly fell in love with. …
Italy 2010 Day 1
Podere Monti After the stress and chaos of waiting for everyone to arrive, renting 2 huge diesel vans, ramming everyone’s luggage into said vans and driving for 3 hours, we finally arrived at our temporary home, a villa in the small town of Montepulciano. Podere Monti is a 7-room bed & breakfast and we managed …
The Gate
One of my all time favorite shots of Sandy is, “The Gate”. While we were back in the Philippines we tried our best to recreate it.
Manila Randomness
We are now home and full of jetlaggedness. Here are some random photos that didn’t make the blog earlier. They are photos taken by Tante, Sandy, Pinky, the official Presidential photographer and a couple of panos by me. I’d like to take this time to thank our family and friends for making this vacation so wonderful, …
Makati Shangri-la
I was so impressed with the Shangri-la, I asked to stay there on our next visit to the Philippines.
Philippines Day 2
Jetlag still has a hold of me so I woke up at 4:30am today. After a little geek time on the PC, I started out on breakfast #1. Half an hour later when the rest of the household got up, I hit breakfast #2. We rounded everyone up and went to the Makati Sports Club …
We arrived
We’ve been in the Philippines for 24 hrs and I haven’t taken a single photo. Although I did manage to get a 1 hour massage and purchase 3 suits (they fit better over here). I should mention with all the Philippine hospitality, we’ve been eating 6 times a day. Will those suits fit? More later.
Idaho 2007
This year’s short vacation was in Idaho, home of Famous Potatoes. We planned this to coincide with the chamber music series at the Sun Valley Lodge in which Jon was playing. We rarely get to see Jon so we decided to tag along. We flew into Boise and drove 2½ hours to Sun Valley. Now …
Philippines 2006
Tagatay Bohol Manila Pampanga