Go ArnoldsOur home this past week was on the “westbank” at Bayou Segnette State Park. It was conveniently located just a few miles away from New Orleans, yet mostly insulated from its craziness. We took Tuesday afternoon to go exploring, which started with a ride on the Algiers Ferry to cross the Mississippi river. We had […]
We enjoyed our final week in Florida. Here are the girls at school on a lovely Monday morning at Silver River State Park: Before leaving that park on Tuesday, we took a long lunch to do some canoeing: As much as I loved the airboat ride several weeks ago, it wasn’t exactly a peaceful encounter with nature. […]
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted, so let’s catch up, shall we? Three weeks ago we were in St. Petersburg again visiting with my Uncle Walter and Aunt Sue. As strange as it may sound, one of the highlights of their area is an Italian grocery store called Mazarro’s. Best fresh pasta ever. […]
Natalie and I are going to tell this week’s story. Our first highlight came as a gift from an Indianapolis friend and neighbor who once lived in Orlando. She was able to fix us up with tickets to Universal Studios! (Thanks Missy!) NATALIE: At first I was really scared because I thought I would have […]
This is going to be another short post…we’re just not doing that much right now, and that’s totally ok by me. As much as we liked Lake Kissimmee State Park, the bad internet was not conducive to a productive work week. Before we left on Monday, however, we were visited by some local whooping cranes: […]
I’m going to keep this short and bang through this quickly because 1) I need to get a jump on a very busy work week, and 2) my internet here won’t handle many photos. There were only a few of us that partied hard enough to ring in the new year. But we were partied […]
Just a heads-up: this is a llllong post. It was an action-packed week. The MVP of Team Arnold was out of commission on Christmas Eve. That’s right: Amy was sick in bed. Amy planned to make one of her signature meals that night, so it was up to Aunt Sue and me to fill in. […]
This month my girls have been doing a “good deed a day” advent calendar (thanks Aunt Sherry), performing some daily act of kindness as we count down towards Christmas. Monday’s challenge was “bake cookies for your neighbor.” So they gift-wrapped and delivered their fresh-baked cookies to a dozen or so of our campground neighbors: Wednesday […]
Amy has been putting our mirror space to good use; it became her whiteboard for the family schedule while we were in Charleston this week: The weather toggled between sunny and cloudy, but on Wednesday it rained and rained and rained all day and all night long. On Wednesday night we had gen-u-ine lowcountry frogmore stew: […]
While making our way to the Outer Banks in NC, we noticed what looked like litter on the sides of the roads everywhere. Turns out it was just cotton. Everywhere. We rolled in late on Monday night to discover that our targeted campground was closed for the season. The owner let us boondock on an empty patch […]