the one positive for staying in one park for more than a week is that we can plan big family trips for the weekend days, instead of packing up and traveling. i’m sure derek feels the same. so on saturday, we decided to head to albany, for a family field trip. on the way in, […]
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accord new york, week two.
i didn’t think it was possible, but our second week in accord was even more lazy than our first. we kicked if off by heading back to the pool. i don’t remember why hazel was sad. probably because i told her to stop running. sunbathers. the kids have been spending a lot of time at […]
genesee country museum, mostly.
on july 5th, we departed from my mom’s yard and slowly made our way to watkins glen state park in the finger lakes. i say slowly, because we stopped for a field trip and some sight seeing with derek’s parents. first up. the field trip. we stopped off in mumford, new york to visit “genesee […]
ohio. week 2.
once again, i find myself playing blog catch up. so despite it being a beautiful day, i’m going to attempt to race through a few posts from the inside of our warm tin can camper. i’ll begin by wrapping up our second week in ohio. we were pretty lazy on the day after our cuyahoga […]
ohio. week 1.
at first glance, we thought our trip to ohio would be sort of boring. our site seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. we were mostly just trying to get a few free weeks in our network of rv parks that we are members of (thousand trails). anyhow, on our first day, we did […]
buffalo science museum plus friends.
earlier this week, we put our science museum passport to work again, this time hitting up the buffalo museum of science. stuffy the stuffed bison. rocket launching. giant galapagos turtle. photo opp. archeological dig. sarcophagus. body “factory”. isaac, practicing his construction skills. yellow jacket hive. bug works sign. spelled out with dead bugs. water current/erosion. […]
may 17th.
well. we are in batavia now. and i’ll post a generic post about that soon. but first. allow me to post about may 17th. it began, with a little drive to medina, to visit a toy train museum. which is apparently owned by the one and only “fireman marty”, a local fireman, who used to […]
west virginia. mountain mama.
the first leg of the official official lidbom rambling road show was to a little spot in west virginia, about ten minutes north of charleston. we arrived late at night and had to navigate some super windy, dark, narrow country roads. but we survived. this was what we were dealing with, only in daylight. and […]
queen city getaway before the getaway.
so. our camper wasn’t going to be ready friday. we were staying at derek’s mom’s house. they weren’t even there. we only had a couple of clothes changes with us. the situation was getting old. so, derek bought some points from his dad and booked us a fancy pants hotel in uptown charlotte for the […]
last days in tampa bay.
when i last left you, we were waiting for my dad and cousin to arrive for dinner. well, they came. we cooked. kids played. everyone ate. a good time was had. the kiddos started out with peppa pig, but then the ipads and phones and such were busted out and everyone became a screen junkie… […]