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Last night, we went out to dinner with some friends that we hadn’t gotten together with in a long, long time.  It was great food and...

I’ve been slowly scanning our old negatives and came across this photo of Simba in our yard in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Here’s Simba in our...

We got a photo from the middle/high school principal of the brand American International School of Kingston new campus. We’ve been asking...

The Atacama Desert, located in northern Chile, is renowned as the driest non-polar desert in the world. Spanning approximately 105,000...

Kirsi has been talking about going to school for quite a while now so when Der and I heard about the Vacation Bible School at San Marcos...

On Jan. 12th we left Valdivia and headed east.  Our first stop was at Panguipulli to see the neat church.  It was built by the Capuchins...

On Jan. 9th, we left our cabins by the penguins and headed inland.  Unfortunately, it was rainy when we left so it was too ugly to be...

I found the cabins at Pinguinland online, just by chance, but we were really excited about them.  They’re located on a hilltop...

Tuesday morning, at 8:00 am we were on the road to San Martin de los Andes.  We decided to drive the more indirect but better roads way,...

The next day, we headed out quite early to Malargue.  It took us a while to get out of Mendoza; we got turned around and ended up taking...

We accepted the contract offer from the American International School of Kingston for Der to be the Head of IT.  (Click on the school’s...

Today, I’m 34.  Wow!  For some reason, that number seems really big.  Much bigger than 33.  I’m not feeling old yet but 34 is starting to...

Last night, we hosted playgroup for Kirsi’s age group.  The kids had a ton of fun playing together – they played with the kitchen, the...

Yesterday, around 3:15 in the afternoon, it started thundering.  It was strange, really, since we haven’t experienced thunderstorms since...

After Kirsi and Der got sick, we thought we had this flu beat.  But on Friday, Aidan got the worst case of the flu of all of us.  He...

has hit our house.  According to Der, “our house is a vomitorium.”  Nice.  Kirsi woke up at 1:00 and threw up all over the place.  It was...

After another cold, rainy weekend in Santiago, we have enjoyed one beautiful spring day. Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous and it looks...

The Kitch family and Grandma JoAnne spent our Dieciocho holiday in Uruguay and had a great time.  We spent a couple of days Montevideo,...

Hola! We’ve been slowly working on a blog about our trip to Montevideo and it’s almost ready.  In the meantime, I thought I would post...

Today was haircut day in our household. Gramma did her hair first and then started with Aidan, then Kirsi and then Mommy. We love Aidan’s...