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San Francisco / Travel — Comments Off on Shannon’s Berkeley Graduation
15
May 12

Shannon’s Berkeley Graduation

Boston / Family — Comments Off on Christmas
25
Dec 11

Christmas

As we have already celebrated Christmas with our Fiala family in Cincinnati during Oktoberfest and also already celebrated Christmas with our Allen family in Seattle over Thanksgiving – we had a little Boston Christmas together here in cold Boston. We enjoyed our day together very much, making overnight coffee cake in the morning before going to church, making a stuffed pork loin for dinner, and baking a few pumpkin pies.  It was a lovely day.

Family / Sports / Travel — 1 Comment
18
Sep 11

Zinzinnati Oktoberfest

We celebrated Christmas with the Fiala’s a bit early this year.  We had Christmas at Oktoberfest in Cincinnati.  It was a great time with family and German beers and food and music.  We made great memories and loved seeing Thadd‘s place in the city.  We got to go to the Great American Ballpark and see the Red‘s play twice.  We went on a steamboat ride too! We loved the weiner dog races, as well as the barrel and beer stein races.  Jeannette also got to meet up with an old friend from MIT at the festival – it was the place to be! There was fun polka music and we would be remiss to not mention the great festival food again.  We had LOTS of strudel, brats with sauerkraut, and cream puffs.

We have video of every wiener dog race heat – they were super cute and funny – but here is just one and also some of the barrel and stein races too.


Family / Portland / Seattle / Travel — 2 Comments
27
Dec 10

Christmas-ing on the Oregon Coast

We missed photographing some of the fun memories of making cookies and putting together puzzles with Grandpa (we were too busy making cookies and putting together puzzles) but here are some of our pictures.  You can check out more photos of the fun on Thadd’s blog, or on Shannon and John’s, or on Mr. Allen’s.


Family / Travel — 1 Comment
11
Oct 10

New England Foliage with Fiala Folks

Happy Columbus Day!

We took a weekend trip to Maine and New Hampshire with Josh’s folks to do some leaf peeping, antiquing, brewery hunting, and euchre playing. We had such a fun trip and loved exploring NH’s White Mountains – especially Franconia Notch – with them.

We spent our first night in Maine and found plenty of local brews to try while getting in a few rounds of Euchre. It was a great way to end a good day of antiquing and a nice dinner at the Portsmouth Brewery in New Hampshire!

We saw great colors early and often!

Josh found the Yellow Lady and had to try a round at lunch.

One of many cute covered bridges we saw

We did short hikes to a few pretty falls

The place we stayed had a whole block of houses and a brewery!  It was great!

The cuteness where we stayed

Indian Head

Franconia Notch

Where the Man in Mountain was before he fell down

We finally found shuffleboard in New England!  Though this is all the way in New Hampshire! Girls win!

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