by Monica | Oct 4, 2009 | Announcements
Happy Birthday Katie! It is still Sunday where you are and since I was unable to call you I wanted to give you a shout out right away. Yesterday (Sunday) morning we went to the Uffizi gallery at 10 am for our reservation. Good thing, too, since the line was very long...
by Monica | Oct 3, 2009 | Announcements
We are in Florence! I am borrowing the computer that is in our apartment because the modem stick that I rented is not working on my computer. Not much of a surprise, most things do not work on my computer without a hassle… though I will not digress into how much...
by Monica | Oct 1, 2009 | Announcements
It’s 4:15 am; Mark and I woke at 2:30 after a very fitful night (for me, anyway) so that we can pack, clean up the house, finish some work, and be on the road to the airport by 10. We want to be really tired when we get on the plane so that we can sleep as much...
by Monica | Sep 18, 2009 | Announcements
I did not sleep well Tuesday night at all. We had the first annual Harvest Meal or, as the KCAA was touting it, Peninsula Food & Chef Showoff, and it was a raging success. Of course lots of little things did not go perfectly.. and yet close to 400 people were fed!...
by Monica | Sep 9, 2009 | Announcements
Mark and I were in Heaven over Labor Day Weekend, and Jesus was our waiter. Akumal, Mexico is a small village about an hour and a half south of Cancun, and we went there for 4 fabulous nights. Jesus works at a restaurant called Lol Ha, and within an hour of the van...
by Monica | Sep 1, 2009 | Announcements
Happy birthday everyone! I know it probably isn’t your birthday, but last week was my mom’s, a couple of friends’, and mine! So it has been birthdays galore for a week! My dad spoiled my mom like crazy and she also treated herself pretty well. We had...