We are just back from a week in Honolulu. Hawaii is one of our favorite places – so beautiful and warm and relaxing!
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Saturday Snapshot: A Few More from NYC!
Here are a few more pictures from our trip to New York City for New Years:
The decorations are amazing at this time of year! Here are the kids standing by a random beautiful wreath!
Here’s the Empire State Building all lit up at night!
We always to go to Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral – here’s the kreche – almost lifesize – at St. Pat’s.
The Empire State Building had a whole lot of great displays for the holidays!
The infamous tree at Rockefeller Center!
Speaking of St. Pat’s — it has been under reconstruction for a while — looking good, but still a long way to go!
Decorations!
We love NYC!
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Saturday Snapshot: New Years 2015 in NYC
This week we spent a few days in NYC. If you know me, you know we love NY and go several times a year.
As I am using my phone app for WordPress, I have to add all the pictures at the end of this post (or I delete them). Probably a glitch with me and not the program!!
First, here’s some shots from the Empire State Building. I hadn’t been up it since I was a little girl. We got the Express Pass and it was SO worth it – just like a fast pass at Disney! It was a beautifully clear!!
While we didn’t go to Times Square for the ball drop (too crowded and too crazy!), we did go the next day. The kids ended up on the Jumbotron! You can see them by Elmo in the red and blue coats.
We love the MET ( art museum) and belong there so it’s often a stop. The beautiful Christmas tree was up still.
Finally, my son who loves trains begged us to bring him to Grand Central Terminal so that he could see the trains. Pure joy!
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Saturday Snapshot: Christmas at our House
We love this time of year – Christmas!
Here are some pictures of Christmas at our house. We like to have two trees – a real one in the living room with our family (and breakable!) ornaments, and an artificial one for the kids in the family room with their ornaments.
Happy Holidays to those celebrating and Happy 2015!
Saturday Snapshot: Snow!
While we didn’t get as much as others did, especially in the Mid-West, we did get a dusting of snow yesterday morning and it’s snowing lightly now. It’s really early for it!
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Saturday Snapshot: Fall is here in New England!
Here are a few pictures of fall in our neck of the woods (the colors are even more brilliant in person!):
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Saturday Snapshot: Montserrat, Spain
At the end of our August trip to Europe for the Disney Cruise, we went to Montserrat, outside of Barcelona. What a beautiful place! It is about an hour outside of the city, reachable by train, up in the mountains. Traditionally, Montserrat (meaning “serrated mountains”) was a destination for religious pilgrims. It was so amazingly beautiful. While there, we went into the cathedral and saw the famous “black virgin”. Beautiful and interesting little side trip!
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Saturday Snapshot: Barcelona!
Last week I posted about our Disney Cruise on the Mediterranean. Our ship set sail and returned to Barcelona, Spain. We had never been there before — what a beautiful city!
Here are a few pictures of things we visited before we left on the cruise:
Sagrada Familia — The large church designed by Gaudi that they have been building since the 1800’s and are still working on:
It was too big to fit in a picture!
Here’s the famous “Nativity” alcove:
Here’s an link to a virtual visit to Sagrada Familia –
http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/sf-eng/docs_instit/vvirtual.php?vv=4
Truly an amazing piece of architecture and spirituality!
We also went to the Cathedral in Barcelona – which was incredibly beautiful inside. We lit candles for my niece who is getting married next weekend and also for a close relative with a large family who had recently been laid off (happy to report that prayers were answered in the way we had hoped — a new job has been found and secured!).
My son thought perhaps we should light a candle to “find a LEGO store in Europe”. Um – no.
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Saturday Snapshot: Trip to Europe!
We just had the most fabulous vacation!
In late August we took the Disney Magic cruise ship for a trip that went from Barcelona to France, Italy, and then back to Spain. I can’t say enough how truly “magical” this experience was! We all loved it!
Here’s a picture of the ship (borrowed from online images):
It was quite spectacular! The kids had a lot of space and activities to themselves, which led my husband and me to have a lot of time alone – woo-hoo!
We stopped in Nice, France. We didn’t get off the boat that day, but it was truly beautiful. Then we went on to Italy and visited Florence: (Il Duomo)
(photobombed!)
We also saw this guy:
(note – this is a copy; the original is in the Galleria).
Then we went on to Pisa:
Yes – it is still leaning!
Then we saw Rome:
And the Vatican:
We skipped getting off in Naples (we were pooped!)
But at the end of the week, it was these smiles that made us happiest:
Now we are back to school, but this will definitely be a vacation that lives in our hearts and minds for a very long time!
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Saturday Snapshot: Bolton Fair
If you’ve read me for a while, or are a facebook friend, you know I volunteer on the committee to run an agricultural fair in our small town of Bolton. The fair has been going for over 130 years. I organize the music/bands for the weekend.
Last weekend was the fair and a friend took this shot of my kids on one of the midway rides:
They were just coming in for a landing!
Here’s my music tent. We have bands in it all day! (where did that baby bottle come from??)
I love the fair at night! So pretty!
Since I’m in the tent all day, I don’t get out too much, but there are some very cute baby animals at the fair every year, and a lot of 4-H kids with their animals. The pig races are a huge hit, though I missed them this year; and people pack in for the demolition derby at night and the (really really LOUD) monster truck rallies (fair photo):
Though I have to say, I’m just kind of the quiet, music type!
Is there a fair in your town in the summer?
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