For Thanksgiving, we had ordered a turkey with all sorts of side dishes and wanted to emulate the ordinary American citizen in terms of their traditional habits for this holiday. So we were going to enjoy this feast on Thursday and then indulge in the “Black Friday” frenzy on Friday. In other words, we had…
Teaching American history is not necessarily one of Celina’s favorite subjects, but it is an essential part of the curriculum here. And as part of her academic focus, this subject is also part of her English classes, and there are many essays to be written. So it’s a good idea to make history something she…
After our taster trip to this fantastic national park and our failed attempts to photograph the night sky, we quickly took advantage of the next long weekend to pay another visit to Big Bend, this time with new tires and rims and professional photography manual. So Friday afternoon, we got in the car and headed…
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It’s ACL Festival in Austin (a big, here mega-known music festival). Since Celina’s school is directly in the access area of the event area, the kids already have Friday noon closing time not to get lost in the traffic chaos. So we used the weekend, which was extended by a few hours, for a trip…
Some people would like to send us to the desert. We wanted to get ahead of that, so we voluntarily went there at the beginning of September, after work- and the learning-intensive month of August, to experience a varied and quite impressive long weekend with “special” highlights. And so the trip went west of Texas…
