Portugal and Paris Olympics

Table or No Table?

Saturday August 3, 2024 Olympic Trivia On its journey from Greece to the host country, the torch has flown in planes, traveled under...

Serving, Setting, Spiking, and Cheering!

Thursday August 1, 2024 Olympic Trivia The Olympic Motto is Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together. Six athletes have medaled in both the...

Winning Isn't Everything

Wednesday July 31, 2024 Update on Azja Czajkowski - Remember Azja? We told you about how we went to watch her in the Women's Pairs...

USA Women Earn First-Ever Rugby 7s Olympic Medal!!!

Tuesday July 30, 2024 The winning "Try" by Alex Sedrick. Olympic Trivia Tarzan competed in the Olympics! Johnny Weissmuller, the actor...

Things Are Going Swimmingly

Monday July 29, 2024 Olympic Trivia The first Olympic games were held in 776 BC and took 6 months to complete The original sports were...

Paris Olympics! Let the Games Begin!

Sunday July 28, 2024 We finally made it to Paris on Saturday after an unexpected delay getting there from Porto, Portugal. Our first...

Porto: Pictures and Prose

Thursday July 25, 2024 Images from Porto We walked across the Ponte de Dom Luis I bridge to the city of Porto and visited some landmarks...

It Takes a Village

Tuesday July 23, 2024 Animals are part of every village, and seem to have freedom to roam around. Today we saw these cute little kittens...

Kindness Matters

Sunday and Monday July 21 and 22, 2024 Sunday we took a trip to Castelo Rodrigo in the hills above the Douro river in Portugal. And...

Rosé-colored Glasses

Saturday July 20, 2024 Quick note - If you were interested in the story of the bats in the library that was in yesterday's blog, I posted...

Sex in the City

Friday, July 19, 2024 To start today's blog, here is a beautiful picture Karen took yesterday evening in Lisbon. One of the charming...

Picture-esque Day

Thursday July 18, 2024 Our hotel and Breakfast Buffet. The Corinthian Hotel in Lisbon is a beautiful hotel with nice outdoor areas and...

Lisbon, Portugal - Do's and Don'ts

Wednesday July 17, 2024 We arrived in Lisbon around 9:00 a.m. this morning, tired and a little jet lagged. Fortunately going through...