Hippidy Hoppidy Happy Birthday Aunt Mary!!

Tickets are purchased. Watch out Prague, Oklahoma!

yes I can

taod: Can you imagine how cool 88 degrees can seem?

Home again, just in time for record high temps to settle in. I think we can handle low 90s.

Mommy,
Edgardo got your camera.

That is really the only cheesy stop in my glorious home state, and we try not to claim it.

Actually you're farther from me... farther.

Edgardo's youngest sister just moved to Bad Kissingen. It is not too far from there. What does "Bad" mean in German? Surely it doesn't mean what it looks like in English. Also, our good friends just moved to Saarbrucken or Wadgassen, not sure which.

If you click on the map link, it seems you have to scroll down on the left and click "next" to see all 4 page sets of the trip. Anyone know how to merge the routes into one map?

Paul and I have been biking for a couple of days now and we still have a couple of days to go. Our adventures can be seen on this map. I have taken several pictures but since they are on the camera and I'm typing this on my phone I'll only be able to post them later.

We started on Monday in Gersfeld, I forgot to turn on the gps tracking till a couple of kilometers after we started. It rained must of the day but we still managed to bike 80 km (50 mi) to Schlitz. Even though the weather forecast was very bad for Tuesday it turned out to be a sunny day, we even got a little sunburnt. On our way we saw two huge mounds of Potassium. We managed to bike to Buttlar where it took us quite some time to find lodging, we were in former communist Germany and that was quite apparent. On Wednesday we took the"Kegelspielbahn" which used to be a train route, the tracks had removed, which was quite scenic. From there we headed to another former railroad track the Miselburgbahn. We ended up spending the night in a village called Findlos. Due to lots of rain (it stopped around one pm) we decided to change our plans today so we spent some time retracing our tracks, we took the whole Miselburgbahn all the way to Fulda where we also did a short bit the same as on Monday. About 10 km outside of Fulda I got a flat tire, so today we only ended up in Bad Salzschlif. Tomorrow we're heading South-West.

It's a long time since I put this many puzzles together in such a short amount of time. We're still working on the last one-- those blue skies can be the killer.

who's the photobomb?

I figured you were just off your game last week.

mom, tracy - you guys saw the wrong game. We won 21-6 this week (i know that's hard to believe from what you saw last week)

today's chronicle headline: "MSU tour guide perfects the art of walking backward"

no gnus is good gnus

ro: Yes.

Great production of Les Miserables tonight in Bloomington. It's the high school version, but still an excellent play.

is that mayne saxby's kid?

Bad news about those fireworks, Tracy...

don't tell Tracy, but we had fireworks in NY tonight.

It's amazing how cool 83 feels after being in the 100s and 90s for a couple of days. We even got a little rain this afternoon, though now the sun is back out so it should be steamy.

AO and I made stepping stones this afternoon, two down more to go. RSJ if you haven't done yours yet, bring them with and we can have another session while you're here.

We're just gonna have to pack up and drive out to MT so I can set off fireworks.

They've already canceled the fireworks for the 4th in Mt. Pulaski. Things are very dry and dying around here. The forecast is for in the 90s for the next ten days and little chance of rain.

This is my second cousin.