Archives for "June, 2009"

Posted by Lauren on 29th June 2009

Today’s Pickings

Posted by Lauren on 27th June 2009

Zucchini!

Ok, I still haven’t finished the Europe posts, but I’m working on it. We had a big moment today…we picked our first zucchini! We don’t know if it was really time to pick them, but they were so big, we couldn’t help it. We’ve picked some lettuce a few times, but this just seemed like [...]

Posted by Lauren on 17th June 2009

¡Barca Barca Barca!

Regarding our accommodations, we are happy to say that Barcelona was the only place we paid to stay – 3 nights of the whole trip! I’ll tell a little more about where we stayed below. In Barcelona, we hit the major Gaudí sites, like Parc Guëll, Casa Milá, and La Sagrada Família. Gaudí had quite [...]

Posted by Lauren on 17th June 2009

Oops!

It looks like I messed up the captions on the Madrid album on our site. They should show up now. Barcelona post is coming hopefully after lunch today…

Posted by Lauren on 12th June 2009

Why do I have to have a title? This is about Madrid.

I should start by explaining Couchsurfing, as it comes up twice on our trip. Our friends Joshua and Tiffany introduced us to the concept, and now we’re semi-pro. Really. Anyway, couchsurfing is a hospitality network where you can ask to stay with people while you’re traveling, and people can ask to stay with you while [...]

Posted by Lauren on 9th June 2009

Back in the swing…

We’re back, and in some ways it feels like we never left. I guess that’s how things are when you face the daily monotony of office jobs (which we are thankful for of course). Anyway, we had a great time! Excluding my terrible trials with allergies, the trip went really well. We’re still going through [...]