Thursday, October 13, 2005

More of Canada

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This morning, we were delighted to see the sun peek it’s head out. We headed down to the falls and bought tickets for the infamous Maid of T...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Canucks!!

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We had an early breakfast at the hotel this morning, complete with self-made Belgian waffles, cereal, coffee, juice and fruit. We were going...
Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Fall

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After major hassles picking up our rental car (best not elaborated on for our own sanity), Lindsay and Nigel drove the Ford Taurus back to t...
Monday, October 10, 2005

Bulls, Bears and an ode to Chris

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This morning we headed to the Brooklyn Bridge and wandered along the South Street piers. When the fish stench got to be too much, we walked ...
Sunday, October 09, 2005

Chinatown fun

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Today was cooler but dry at least. We took the tour bus up to Central Park and spent the morning walking through it. It is such a gorgeous, ...
Saturday, October 08, 2005

"You're Fired!"

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Today we saw uptown New York and Brooklyn from the top deck of the tour bus. It made for quite a wet experience since it pretty much rained ...
Friday, October 07, 2005

First Day in NYC

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIE!!! We all had a bit of a sleep-in this morning, but were up in time for our free breakfast of muffins and less-than-ave...
Thursday, October 06, 2005

Dumplings in the Big Apple

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Our taxi picked us up today at the un-Godly hour of 4:45 am. We were sure we'd need a caffeine fix at such an hour, so our kind taxi dri...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005

The Very Last Day

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Well, it's sort of a sad day for us. Technically it's not the last day of our trip, but it's our last day in a foreign land, so ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Laziness taking over

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Not much was accomplished today. We slept in, took our laundry in, then walked around Barrio Chino to browse the cheap stalls selling whatev...
Monday, October 03, 2005

The last ride

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Our opinions of Acapulco somewhat restored by the cliff divers and a good dinner last night, we decided not to press our luck and wanted to ...
Sunday, October 02, 2005

Acapoophole

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Waking up to a new day, we were determined to find the good side of Acapulco. We promptly checked out of our dingy hotel and took one of the...
Saturday, October 01, 2005

Acapulchole

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Today didn´t really start off great, and only got worse. We went down to one of the bus stations in Taxco around 11:00 am to catch the 12:10...
Friday, September 30, 2005

Taxco

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Other than walk around and enjoy the town itself, there isn´t much to do in Taxco. Actually, if you love to shop and have money, it´s a grea...
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Skipping Cuernavaca

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This morning we took the metro to one of the bus terminals and got a bus south to Cuernavaca. It was only about 1 hour 15 minutes, so a real...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Doing nothing

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Well, we had planned to get straight out of Mexico City today, but we slept in until nearly 1:00 (which we really needed). I still wasn´t fe...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Back in MEX

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We had to say goodbye to everyone today, which sucked, but we were happy to know it will only be about 3 weeks before we´re back again, whic...
Monday, September 26, 2005

Too much food!!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERINN!!! Lastnight we slept at my parents´ house with Megan and Colin. It was fun to wake up with them and watch cartoons in ...
Sunday, September 25, 2005

BBQ Bday

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Today was the BBQ for my sister´s birthday, which was a lot of fun. Lots of her friends and family came, and it was great to catch up with p...
Saturday, September 24, 2005

Family

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We didn´t do much today other than visit with the family, which was perfect. It was strange to be around so many people we know and love, si...
Friday, September 23, 2005

Surprise!

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We were up by 5:30 this morning, packed up and were off to the airport on a little detour. My brother-in-law Jeff, with the help of my siste...
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Museum and Zoo

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After breakfast of yogurt and coffee at 7-eleven, we took the metro to the Bosque de Chapultepec la Secciòn, a huge, beautiful park in the m...
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

can´t remember what we did today.

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sorry!
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Aztec ruins

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This morning we had a slow start. We had planned on getting up early to head out to the ruins of Teotihuacán, but when that alarm went off, ...
Monday, September 19, 2005

El DF

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Deciding at the last minute to skip a trip into the nearby Sierra Madres mountains for a few days, we checked out of our hotel this morning ...
Sunday, September 18, 2005

More old stuff

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After having a fantastic, filling Oaxacan breakfast, we took a bus out to the Zapotec ruins of Monte Albán just west and up a mountain from ...
Saturday, September 17, 2005

Oaxaca

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We arrived in Oaxaca around 8:00 this morning, after a fairly uneventful ride. The town is a lot like San Cristóbal but larger, with narrow,...
Friday, September 16, 2005

Post-party

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We were a bit lazy this morning after a late night last night. We checked out of our hotel, then wormed our way through the crowds lining th...
Thursday, September 15, 2005

¡Viva México!

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Today is the celebration of Independence Day, comemorating September 16, 1810, when Miguel Hidalgo delivered his speech El Grito de Dolores ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

The sites of San Cristóbal

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Today was a lazy day wandering around the sights of San Cristóbal. We started off with a fresh, organic coffee drink at a coffee museum/cafe...