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Since she returned
I’m glad that Catherine and Rebecca made it home safely from their trip to Ohio. The house was pretty lonely without them. In celebration, I’ve put up a gallery of some of my favorite photos that I’ve taken of my favorite photographic subject since her return. Enjoy!
By Peter | 04.15.2008 | 09:27 PM | Permalink | Categories: Catherine, Family, Photography, Travel | No Comments
Driving Photos
By holding the camera facing backwards and aiming ‘blind’, I was able to capture some photos in the car during our trip last week. I think they tell a great story of our adventure.
Sometimes Catherine was awake:
Sometimes she was asleep:
Sometimes Momma drove the car:
And sometimes Baby drove
By Rebecca | 04.13.2008 | 07:37 PM | Permalink | Categories: Catherine, Travel | 3 Comments
Heading Home
Friday morning saw Catherine and I packing up, eating breakfast and saying our goodbyes to Kirsten and Mark. We hopped in the car and proceeded to shuffle off to Buffalo. The rain stayed with us the whole trip, but we enjoyed the tap, tap, tap that it played on the roof.
Catherine especially liked playing with the Lyttles, our hosts for the night:
By Rebecca | 04.06.2008 | 02:47 PM | Permalink | Categories: Friends, Travel | 3 Comments
Party!
We were happy to get to celebrate Kirsten’s birthday with her.
By Rebecca | 04.06.2008 | 02:21 PM | Permalink | Categories: Family, Travel | No Comments
Corn Field
I had the opportunity to visit my lovely friend Heather today while Catherine had some quality time with Grandma.
Heather and I had a little knitting lesson, became engrossed in some philosophical discussions about life, drank some tea, ate lunch at Biddie’s and visited some giant ears of corn. Not necessarily in that order.
By Rebecca | 04.02.2008 | 10:28 PM | Permalink | Categories: Friends, Travel | 1 Comment
WoodBlogging-On Location:Ohio
Catherine and I have logged quite a few hours on the road over the past two days. Including pit stops and lunch dates and such it comes out to around 18 hours total. The trip was not as challenging or long and I had expected it to be.
Catherine makes for a pleasant driving companion. She enjoyed watching the trucks pass by, digging through her bag of toys and books, listening to an ever changing selection of music and occasionally taking a little nap.
We are settling in nicely here in Ohio and are looking forward to spending lots of time with Grandma, Grandpa, Kirsten and Mark.
Here are a few pics from the trip so far:
By Rebecca | 03.31.2008 | 10:33 PM | Permalink | Categories: Travel | No Comments
Travel Journal
For our first anniversary, October 26, 2003, Jennifer gifted us with the traditional first anniversary gift; paper. It came in the form of a spiral bound travel journal. We got off to a slow start with only a couple of entries until the spring of 2005 when the posting took off with our trip to Russia. Since then we’ve faithfully recorded our travels, large and small. Our most recent trip to Ohio gave us enough material to fill the last remaining pages.
The book is a hybrid journal and scrapbook of sorts. It includes narratives of our journeys (often with mileage notes and time markers) as well as having brochures, napkins, photos and ticket stubs pasted in. While I am the primary note taker, Peter has chimed in with his perspective from time to time. Even Catherine has made her mark in the book. Our entries are full of misspellings and grammatical mistakes (due to hastiness while trying to record everything) and poor penmanship (due to writing in moving vehicles).
I love looking back through the pages and reliving the memories that we’ve made over the past four years. We’ve been to Ohio, Russia, Canada, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, and a ton of places in between. We’re looking forward to finding a new journal and filling it with even more memories in the coming years. I wonder if my grand children and great grandchildren will have as much fun reading about our adventures as we have had living them.
More pictures are here: Travel Journal Album
By Rebecca | 01.02.2008 | 08:03 PM | Permalink | Categories: Travel | 4 Comments
Big Christmas Wrap-Up!
December 21-30 was a whirlwind of a Christmas vacation for the Wood family. We had a great time visiting with friends and family. I took lots of photos, so we’ll give you the brief rundown here with links to images from our trip.
- December 20: We had a sort of “Pre-Christmas” at home after I got out of work. We exchanged our gifts so that we didn’t have to bring the stuff for just each other all the way out to Ohio. The rest of our evening was spent packing for our trip!
- December 21: We left after I got out of work and drove to a Knight’s Inn in Liverpool, NY. That helped break the trip up a bit.
- December 22: We left Syracuse early in the morning, and, after a stop in Madison, Ohio to visit with Melanie, we drove to Mount Vernon. Pics from the drive, Pics from visiting Melanie, Pics from the first evening in Mount Vernon
- December 23: We went to church at Lakeholm in Mount Vernon, then headed down to Columbus to visit with Becky’s friend Heather and her husband Jeff. Then it was back to Mount Vernon for the infamous “Reindeer Hat Party.” Pics from visiting Heather and Jeff, Pics from the Reindeer Hat Party
- December 24: We attended the Christmas Eve service at Lakeholm, then had Christmas Eve dinner at home. Pics from Christmas Eve
- December 25: We spent Christmas Day at home with my family! Pics from Christmas Day
- December 26: On Wednesday, we went up to Mark and Kirsten’s place in Mansfield for a nice Birthday brunch for Mom! After that, we drove back to Mount Vernon to attend a Game Day that Amy Walton was hosting at her parents’ house. Later in the evening, we had a birthday cake and another little party for Mom. Pics from Mom’s birthday brunch and that evening, Pics from the game day
- December 27: On Thursday, we had some outings sans Catherine. Rebecca and I went out to breakfast at the Southside Diner while Mom and Dad watched Catherine. Then, Rebecca, Dad and I went out to lunch while Mom watched Catherine. Later that evening, Mom and Dad watched Catherine again while we went out to dinner and a movie with Mark and Kirsten. We ended the evening with a family photo shoot. Pics from the Southside Diner, Pics from Thursday afternoon, Pics from dinner with Mark and Kirsten, Pics from the photo shoot
- December 28: On Friday morning, we left Mount Vernon and drove back to the Knight’s Inn in Liverpool, NY. The hotel clerk recommended dinner at a delicious local restaurant, Mother’s, and gave us a free voucher to see the local “Lights on the Lake” holiday light display. It was a nice evening with just the three of us! Pics from the drive, Pics from Friday evening
- December 29: On Saturday, we left Liverpool and drove to Townsend to spend the rest of the weekend with Becky’s family.
- December 30: On Sunday, we had lunch in Townsend with Becky’s parents, then they drove back to Danvers with us to help cart back our additional haul of gifts and see our new staircase. Pics from the “After-Christmas Christmas” in Townsend
See all of the Christmas pics here.
Phew! Since then, we’e been unpacking our stuff and trying to get readjusted to a life back at home.
We hope that you have all had great holidays with your family or friends, and that you have a happy new year!
By Peter | 12.31.2007 | 10:40 PM | Permalink | Categories: Family, Friends, Travel | 1 Comment
Headin’ out Ohio-way!
In only two weeks and two days, we’ll be packin’ up the wagon and headin’ out to Ohio!
As you can see, we’re dividing the drive up into two manageable pieces with a strategic hotel stay in Syracuse, NY.
We’ll be spending the week of Christmas with my family in Mount Vernon. We’re looking forward to spending some quality time with Grandma and Grandpa, Mark and Kirsten, and the rest of the Mount Vernon crew.
We’d love to visit with any of our readers who are in the greater Mount Vernon area. Drop us a line and let us know if you’re going to be around at any point December 23 through 27!
By Peter | 12.05.2007 | 09:34 PM | Permalink | Categories: Family, Occasions, Travel | 2 Comments
Mount Olga or “why I love hiking”
At the Molly Stark State Park you can find very clean bathroom facilities and a trail to the top of Mount Olga. As we hit the trail Peter turned to me and asked, “why do you love hiking so much?”
When I started to answer I came up with one or two reasons, but as I kept thinking I came up with many more. So, why to I love hiking?
- It’s outdoors. I love the fresh air and sun shining through the trees. I love the smell of fallen leaves.
- There’s often a great view as a reward for all your work fighting gravity.
- It is free- for the most part. Usually if there’s a park fee it goes back into maintaining the trails and facilities, so it is totally worth paying.
- It is great exercise.
- It is quiet.
- There is very little commercialization surrounding it (minus EMS and REI and LLBean- but you can hike without spending one penny at any of those)
- It is family friendly. And I have great memories of hiking with my family when I was a kid.
Well, the list could go on and on. Hiking just makes me happy.
And I was happy last Sunday when we stopped into the Molly Stark campground and hiked to the top of Mount Olga.
By Rebecca | 10.07.2007 | 08:41 PM | Permalink | Categories: Conscious Living, Outdoors, Travel | 3 Comments

