http://bluecord.org/familyblog Our family's work and play as missionaries. Sat, 19 May 2007 19:29:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Saturday, Dad and I went to Webelos camp. This was the first time I had gone. It was up in New Hampshire. The camp is a day camp to teach Cub Scouts things about being a Boy Scout. I got a patch for attending. ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2007/05/19/webelos-camp/ We are at the airport in Kiev getting ready to depart. Actually, we are already ready, but the plane is not. We are delayed for about an hour, so I thought I would take this time to blog about our fall break trip to Kiev, Ukraine. We arrived here ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/11/03/fall-break-in-ukraine/ Stephanie and I just got back from a fun weekend in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Steve and Betsy Dintaman, who used our car this summer, offered to keep the kids for us. This meant we could be out late and do grown-up stuff. We left after class on Friday, arriving ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/10/01/weekend-in-vilnius/ My first blog ever. Kevin thought I'd never get around to it. Well, you know how it is with old fogies like me. This new technology is intimidating. For my first post it seemed apropos to discuss first days - of school that it. Both our children have begun ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/09/10/school-has-begun/ It's the great cat hunt, take two! Yesterday, we went to the market here in Klaipeda and got a cat. Just today, I named her Abby, which is short for Acrobat (which she is). Ever since we got her, she has been jumping around, following toy mice, and batting ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/08/24/say-hello-to-abby/ I am sorry to report that Sphinx has died. Over the weekend, Sphinx was never very active. We thought at first that it was because she was in a new place and was uncertain. But she was not eating, so on Monday we took her to the vet. ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/08/22/say-goodbye-to-sphinx/ Yesterday, we went to the animal shelter and got a new kitten. Her name is Sphinx. She is about two months old and she has a lot of stripes on her, as you can see from the picture. I first wanted to name her 'Stripey'. ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/08/19/say-hello-to-sphinx/ We returned today from Budapest to Vienna. We had a fantastic time in Budapest. Stephanie loved it so much that she wants to retire there. My conference ended on Wednesday, and I took the train from the university down to Budapest. Stephanie and Duncan arrived from Vienna around ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/08/11/out-and-about-in-budapest/ Having survived two flights and a long bus trip, we currently find ourselves back in our apartment in Klaipeda, Lithuania. It is certainly good to be home. Although our luggage did not make the transfer in Amsterdam, the good folks at KLM delivered it to our door earlier ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/08/02/back-in-lithuania/ Tomorrow we head back to Lithuania. We have had a good ten weeks in the States, but it is time to get back home. We fly to Lithuania on Monday, but won't arrive there until Tuesday. We land in Riga, Latvia, and then we have to ... http://bluecord.org/familyblog/2006/07/30/heading-to-eastern-europe/