Christmas Market in Cardiff

Many European cities celebrate Christmas extravagantly with miniature/copycat German Christmas Markets, and Cardiff is no exception.  The city is full of lights and little booths selling all types of homemade crafts and food.  Since Thanksgiving isn’t a holiday here, there also isn’t the unspoken rule of waiting until after Thanksgiving to start celebrating.  So Cardiff’s […]

Day 2: Birthday in Amsterdam

The whole reason that this trip happened (three weeks before our already planned European trip) is that I am turning 30. Now 30 has not been setting well with me basically since I turned 29, and my amazing husband decided that he would plan a trip to take my mind off of 30.  We literally […]

We finally made it to Amsterdam!

This adventure includes two guests — my friend Becky and her boyfriend Rob.  You will see them periodically.  The fun thing about this trip too is this is Becky’s first trip abroad, so everything is so new and exciting. I love seeing people experience the world for the first time. Mattie also made her first […]

Day 7 — Italy!

Today was a new adventure for us — we traveled from Munich to Italy by train. It was surprisingly easy even though the 7 hour train ride was so long (our flight was cancelled, so we had to go by train..). It’s crazy how easy it is to just get on a train – no […]