Archive for October 2011

Bewitched

Every Halloween is a great fun for the kids as they pick out and create their latest and greatest costumes. At some point in the last few years though we have apparently started a tradition where the kids pick out our customs. This was not an adequately thought-out plan on our part. When it comes [...]

Where is OSHA?

On day three of our Lake Nasser cruise, we stepped off our riverboat onto a small motor boat that took us to shore.   One of the crew of this little boat jumped onto shore and held the boat steady with a rope tied to the bow.   Two other men grabbed up a 2-foot wide plank [...]

Bye Bye Barbie

If you’ve followed my blog posts you’re probably well aware of Griffin, our dog, and his obsession with my daughter’s Barbie dolls. Well, we thought we had the situation under control and Gracie was being more careful about keeping her assortment of Barbies safety stashed out of the dog’s reach. Well, apparently that’s not the [...]

Where’s your momma?

Egyptian culture is very different from US culture in so many ways but none more obvious than how they treat their children.  On our way over from the US to Jordan there was a woman traveling with a two-year-old and a little tiny baby no more than 3 or 4 months old.  The two-year-old was [...]