Family
Merry Christmas to you all. God is not far off. He is Emmanuel — God With Us. Blessings to you all, from Mike, Olga and Valerie This made us smile:
I just read a quote by Peggy Noonan: In Iraq this year I asked an Iraqi military officer doing joint training at an American base what was the big thing he’d come to believe about Americans in the years they’d been there. He thought. “You are a better people than your movies say.” He had [...]
We celebrated Thanksgiving on Sunday. Since thanksgiving is not a Russian holiday, it’s a bit easier to have the meal on Sunday. In addition to several friends, Olga’s mother and grandparents joined us. Olga’s grandfather, Orest Maxmilianovich Grotten is 92 years old, and we were very glad he could be with us. Above is Olga [...]
Today is Thanksgiving in the USA. While it’s not a holiday here in Russia, it is certainly a day of celebration for me and Olga. Today we celebrate our 10th anniversary. As a special treat on our anniversary today we both woke up sick with head colds. The start of a great day! The picture [...]
I’ve just arrived in Finland after taking the ferry from Estonia. I’ll be here a few days before heading back. It’s beautiful in Finland now, the heart of autumn.
We’ve just finished our drive from Montenegro to Estonia. We drove through Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. We got to see Vienna and Prague along the way. Here’s a video of part of our drive through the Austrian countryside. It’s really pretty there.
There were some forest fires in the mountains across the valley from us. Rain came in a few days ago and doused them: A portrait when were were at a cafe last week -
A new friend visited the other day:
We’re staying with friends on the outskirts of Podgorica, Montenegro. It thought you might be interested to see one part of our morning the other day:
As we were driving around the Bay of Kotor the other day, we entered this village: Remember, you need to roll that R.
