Our first full day in Ghent while dad is off to work.  We decided there was no better way to kick off our stay than to charge the castle! The kids have been here twice before when they were younger but did not remember it so well. The last time we were here was in…

We left our cozy French country home along with the warm weather and sunshine and headed to Ghent, Belgium. If we would have driven it would have taken about 2.5 hours of our life, however, we decided to return the car and use our eurail train passes.  The trip ended up taking over 6 hours!…

With one day left before leaving France we decided to go to the Champagne region being that it was only an hour and a half drive from where we were staying and also, because it’s the CHAMPAGNE REGION! The town of Reims is not as hustling and bustling as Paris, but certainly just as charming….

Today’s drive started out well. With not much to eat at the house, we were able to translate a somewhat decent meal at a McDonald’s drive through which resulted in a sugar rush for the kids to start the day. Not the what we intended while ordering, but it was sustenance at it worked. The…

Dad’s version of the day: Finally, a morning without a commute to downtown Paris, I headed out to my final day at the Paris Air Show. This week has been fun, productive and exhausting all at the same time. A day filled with more networking, meetings and an encore walk through the flight line, I…

Jet lag – kicked our butt today and got us off to a late/relaxing start. We were up kind of early (9ish) and the kids were like rock stars, sleeping past 10! I had a crazy drive into the city looking for the air show which had me twisting and turning through downtown Paris, saw…

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