Hilton Garden Inn Evanston

... place was a mad house as it seemed like everyone from the town was in here eating dinner. Coming from Texas, it was a bit different for us to see that there were many groups of people eating at the same table with others that weren't with them. We are used to a big group eating at one table, but here it was typical to see four groups of people eating at a round table and not know each ...

I, for some reason woke up at 8:30am. Nick woke up around 10:30. Nick had a remote computer-tech call from Julia today and she discovered the awesomeness that is Google Docs. It's a web-based document creator; word documents and spreadsheets. All are stored online and you can access them anywhere with an internet connection.

Ok. Today we went and bought some ...

Tough trip to plan for ....20F in Beijing and 95F in Jakarta. A lot of business meetings and not sure laundry limits. I'll be outside if trekking to the Great Wall. I'm going to be all over the place. Packed a suitcase in a suitcase in case I see something to buy for the girls/family too good to pass up.

... I loved Renoir but I kept getting drawn to them from across the room. We didnt have enough time there... only 2.5 hours... but they were closing so we were off to the Eiffel Tower.

When we exited the museum, the sun had just set and it was this jewel-blue color with dark spotty clouds. Robert grabbed my hand so we could stand for a minute and take it in. A couple hours later when we were on top of the Eiffel tower, the moon was a burnt orange color, the same as the ...

Here to visit the major Baha'i House of worship in north America and the Holiest to be ever raised in the world.Identified with the enception of the Kingdom of God comming on earth.

Web site http://www.bahai.us/bahai-temple

Also got a chance to look around the ...

... there for some more time. This was because there seemed to be like a treasure to be explored in there. Books, pages, articles, articrafts, piggy stuff (she is obsessed with pigs!) All were real fun to explore. I especiallly loved her list of the most hadsome/ pretty people she knew. Among that list, for sure you could see her picture smiling at you. That's so of her. ( I love you Louisa!) Then the time came when a young couple entered the house. I thought ...

... was 300 feet away from being a Duncan pancake if I fell, but I had another 300 feet to go. And if the drizzle wasn't enough, the wind sped up and a fog settled in to block the trail to the South Crater. The fog hid our view of Mount Ngauruhoe, which was the model for Mount Doom in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. The terrain looked like Mars and the trail was thankfully flat, but the fog disguised how we went and how far we had to go to get to the Red Crater. At times I ...

... Stroganoff is one of my favorite meals when the temperature dips. I also picked up a chai latte for the walk home. On the walk back, it started to snow. Just some flurries unlike the mess we got back home in October. It shouldn't snow in PA/NJ in October, that is just wrong. Went to bed early since I had the 6:30 am flight from O'Hare. Good thing too, I couldn't imagine what security would have been like when the President-elect was flying out.

... off the ground around 2am, I looked over at Laura's tired eyes, partially covered with her swollen, sleep deprived eyelids, and gave her a look that said probably couldn't be translated into any language. I've never been so happy to leave somewhere. Never. The saga of Jet Blue Flight 908 is by far my most memorable airplane experience... I'm sure it probably takes the cake for most people on there. I'm glad that there were people on board that ...

... storey buildings and one even has a small section of the original thatch roof on it. Here you can also enter a real kiva. Kivas are rooms dug into the earth for religious purposes. All kivas are built with the exact same design with a fire-pit, air shafts, air deflector, and shelving. Each kiva also has a sipapu (pronounced SEE-pah-poo). This was a small hole dug opposite the fire-pit that supposedly lead back down to the third world (the Ancestral Puebloans and ...