Cori's update:

Cori wrote something up about our latest trip, and you can read it all after the break.

Our big Foodie Trip

 

For all of our travels in Italy, we still hadn’t done a “Foodie Trip”; we decided that the time had come to rectify that. The kids were out of school last Thursday and Friday with another holiday on the following Wednesday, so we could take a week long vacation while only taking them out of school for 2 days.

The missing post!

Somehow, in that flurry of updates, I missed one. I was pretty proud of my writing in this one too... I don't know how it happened, but now everything's gonna be all out of order. Sorry. Before our Christmas trip (for Thanksgiving, specifically), some friends of Becca's came to visit. Here's the post I wrote about their visit - it's a good one, you should click through and read it!

Christmas Vacation

We decided to spend Christmas skiing in Garmisch, Germany this year at an Armed Forces resort called Edelweiss. When we've gone up there before, we've driven up to Verona on the first day, then driven the rest of the way the next day. This time, we drove all the way to Innsbruck on the first day, and visited the Christmas Markets there that night, before finishing the drive to Garmisch the next day.

Home Leave

Home leave is supposed to be more relaxing than ours was, I think. We got into Austin and left a few days later to go to a Farnham family reunion in Iowa. We drove up. We stopped in Fort Worth to have breakfast with some friends of ours who had recently moved there from Rome, then drove up to Wichita to spend the night. The next day, we drove from Wichita to Clear Lake, Iowa (where the family reunion was).

For those of you keeping track at home, that's 5 states in the first week.

Boy, what a year!

You're still here? Holy moley, I didn't think anyone was still reading this. I guess I better post an update then, huh?

Here's part of a year worth of updates. You might want to get yourself something to drink first, this is going to be a long one, and it's going to be so gripping that you won't want to stop until you get to the end. I may even throw in a teaser or two, to make you come back and read the rest.