It's been very quiet around here and since our snow melted it's looking a bit ugly outside. Brian's been traveling a lot since Christmas and I've been puttering and doing some little projects. I finished my little scrap quilt over the weekend.  I went for a walk and peeked at the lake. We had new…

I almost forgot to document the last bit of our Christmas vacation to Spain. As I mentioned before, Girona is a very bike friendly city. It started in the late 1990s when a teammate of Lance Armstrong and then Armstrong himself moved there and made it their off-season training base. You notice when you search…

Over the weekend I went away to Michigan City, Indiana with some girlfriends. It's an annual crafty weekend get-together that I always look forward to. This year it was very memorable because after we arrived we got a huge amount of snow – 35 inches! We were a little worried that we would be snowed…

For the next few days of our vacation we traveled to a city called Girona. It's a pretty old city known for it's Medieval architecture, Roman ruins and more recently it's become a cycling city (more about that later). Here we are walking along the old city wall. I didn't expect Girona to have such…

One of the main reasons we wanted to go to Barcelona was to show the girls the work of Antoni Gaudi. His architecture is unlike anything I've seen. His church – the Sagrada Familia feels similar in scale to lots of other churches we've seen but its organic style is so unique. A treat to…

On New Year's Day we took the train to a city called Tarragona. I got to do some train knitting so I was happy. Tarragona is a port city on the Mediterranean with lots of beautiful Roman ruins. We walked all around and had gelato. All the buildings had such a creamy warmth to them…

For New Year's Eve we went to ‎⁨La plaza de Espanya to watch fireworks with a huge group of people. They also had a drone display at the same time which was very cool. I was very tired and we almost got crushed to death on the way home but it was very memorable. We…

After Christmas we took a trip to Spain. We arrived in Barcelona on December 30th and began walking all around – seeing all the sights. Barcelona is really such a beautiful city. It's architecture is old and new and so bold. A big area of Barcelona – called Eixample – is made up of unique…

We enjoyed our typical Christmas traditions in Mildand. And I hardly took any photos. Now we're home and back to our regular routines. I put the all the Christmas decorations away today. I feel like we have passed on from a certain era and I am a little sad. The time when my kids were…