Like nomads, but with more stuff

Here are a few more photos of the Aurora Borealis from our recent trip.  It was a short light show both nights but quite wonderful.  Hope...

This year we have a membership to the Russian Museum. Between its physical convenience (30 minutes walking, or 25 minutes by metro/walking)...

On our second day in Finland we went out with the reindeer herder and got to feed the reindeer. We also got to see Russia. It didn't lo...

We were up unfortunately early for how late we all got to bed, and of course all bellies grumbled. We got some coffee into the adults and ...

What I will not miss about living overseas: the teensy tiny "practice" washing machine and dryer with forever-long cycles. We wer...

When we wandered off the airplane into the velvety black night and headed toward the building of the airport, we were pretty well done. It...

We did our research and knew Helsinki airport had 4 children's play areas. Two were within an easy distance of our next gate so we wan...

Alex is our smartypants in the family. At 5, she speaks 2 languages, reads a bit in both, and can do addition, subtraction and multiplicati...