After two full days at Legoland, it was time to head back to Copenhagen, but we were still determined to get rid of our dirty laundry first (perhaps even more determined, as the two bags had become three), so on Monday morning we again made the long walk to the center of town. We didn’t… Read More Homeward bound, slowly

So Saturday it was finally time to hit Legoland. We had just one quick errand to run after breakfast, then we could dedicate our entire day to Lego worship. I mentioned a few weeks back that I was considering sending home our dirty laundry, and the more we accumulated the better the idea seemed. So… Read More Arrival

Our Stockholm errands completed, we loaded ourselves up Thursday morning and got on a train to Copenhagen. It was a five-hour ride, and let me tell you, those were the worst five hours of the entire trip, as far as I was concerned. Though I’m generally prone to motion sickness, I’m usually fine on trains,… Read More Onward!

Now that we’ve been home a few days I feel mostly recovered from the trip and I can start to write a little about it. Honestly, though, there wasn’t much to recover from besides lack of sleep — the whole thing went surprisingly well, far better than I could have hoped. I didn’t exactly think… Read More Stockholm in June

The highlight of our trip — in fact, the entire reason behind it — was Legoland. We spent two days at the park, and could probably have filled at least one more. It poured down rain most of the first day we were there, but we managed (mostly) not to let our spirits get dampened… Read More Legoland

So we’re all back where we belong again, and it feels so good. It’ll take me a while to go through the hundreds of pictures and put together any sort of cohesive recap, but I thought you’d enjoy this shot of the motley crew, taken at the airport in Stockholm at the beginning of our… Read More Home

We’re in Denmark now, ensconced in our little vacation cottage not far from Legoland. Much nicer than the two-hotel-rooms thing we were doing until last night. We spent the afternoon at Legoland today and will be heading back tomorrow morning for more of the same (well, hopefully for less, where rain is concerned — it… Read More Quick update from the road

Once upon a time, Olof and I had the bright idea to take the kids down to Legoland in Denmark this summer, and to stop off in Stockholm on the way and finally get the younger kids’ American birth certificates/passports/Social Security cards taken care of. It all sounded easy enough until today, the day before… Read More The time is now

“I can always live with you,” Petra tells me, “if I don’t get kids.” She pauses a moment to consider before continuing, “If I don’t get any kids, then you and dad won’t be a grandmother and a grandfather. You’ll never be barnvakt* to any kids. You’ll just be old people.” *barnvakt = babysitter

His last haircut was in November of last year, but today he decided it was finally time for the shaggy mane to go (and we only twisted his arm a little).