On Thursday (10/6), we had some time to kill in the morning and headed to the historic downtown area in Folsom. Can you imagine that I had never been there? It’s such a cute, historic main street though. We walked around a bit and had a drink at a small...
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October, 3 was my Mom’s birthday and I was so happy to be able to celebrate with her. I baked a birthday cake for her (every birthday kid deserves a birthday cake!) and we surprised her (and belatedly my Dad) with tickets to the Paul McCartney concert at our newly...
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Look at these two – aren’t my selfie-taking, very excited parents just the cutest? I loved getting that picture right before their take-off. Multiple hours later on September, 29, they arrived at SFO. I had to leave work a bit early and make my way over to the Bay Area....
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As I have shared numerous times over the last few weeks (and you’re probably tired of hearing about it already), my parents were here for 2,5 weeks at the beginning of the month and let me just say that we had the most wonderful time. Yes, it’s nice to have...
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On our way to and from the Italian Alps, we had two stop-overs in Munich. One, to break up the long drive and two, because it’s always a good idea to stay a night or two in Munich. Obviously. This was another “nostalgic” part of my visit back home, because...
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The second week of my trip home was spent in Italy. South Tyrol, to be exact. As previously mentioned, my parents took my sister and me skiing in Val Gardena every year ever since we were little and being able to finally go back there (with everybody) was such a...
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I owe you a fun recap of my trip home in March, but I’ve decided to break it up in travel chunks, rather than trying to do one big blog post about all of it. ‘Cause honestly? It’s too overwhelming and I wouldn’t even know where to start. So a...
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It’s my birthday month! Hooray. I love me some March. Especially when good things are on the horizon that will make me completely forget about the fact that I am turning 40 this week. I mean, WHAT? I love birthdays (and think they need to be appropriately celebrated – every...
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We spent a rest day (7/13) in Sacramento to relax and do some much overdue laundry, before heading out for another short trip to Yosemite National Park the next day (7/14). Our first stop was Mariposa, where we were going to stay one night at the Comfort Inn Yosemite Valley...
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I am recapping the wonderful times that I had with my family here in the States this summer. See all related posts under the category: summer tales. Today (7/12) we left San Francisco to head to Napa Valley. We picked out another café close by for breakfast. The “Corner Bakery” was...
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