tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43134569401047855002024-03-13T23:30:56.266-04:00The Amazing Adventures of los von ZauRunyon!Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-46752319471082190582018-07-08T09:04:00.000-04:002018-07-08T09:04:03.105-04:00The Lakes! (Part 3) The Lakes District is shot through with beautiful hiking trails, and late April is a beautiful time to be there. Bertie is not much of a hiker, but we went out one day for a nice long walk above Grasmere. This is Wordsworth country, but we were neither overwhelmed with daffodils nor taken with the urge to proclaim odes to anything. It was a lovely day! Although the Lakes District is called 'lakes,' there is only one actual lake in the area: Bassenthwaite Lake. We did not visit it. The others are meres, waters, and tarns. The area has been settled for thousands of years, so there are lots of linguistic foundations at work in the names of landmarks. <br />
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North of Ambleside, and in fact near the northern boundary of the district, is Derwentwater. Above Derwentwater there are prehistoric standing stones, something like Stonehenge but much, much smaller. <br />
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Our final big outing in the Lakes was to Ullswater. It is also Wordsworth country, but we did not have the energy for a hike (and the daffodils were past anyhow). <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-20886816403421273702018-07-08T08:27:00.002-04:002018-07-08T08:27:37.085-04:00The Lakes! (Part 2) We ventured out over very small and winding roads to Ravenglass on the coast. We visited a very interesting regional zoo and an old castle (real this time) with a birds of prey exhibit. We finished the day with a ride on a narrow-gauge railway up into a lovely valley. <br />
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We rode the 'Lal Ratty' narrow gauge train up the Eskdale Valley. It's a legitimate commuter train, though at our time of day it was mostly hikers and tourists. <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-70606290858201904892018-07-08T08:01:00.001-04:002018-07-08T08:01:47.187-04:00The Lakes! (Part 1) And now for a blast from the past - the long overdue post(s) about our trip to England's Lakes District last spring! <br />
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We stayed in a holiday cottage in the village of Ambleside on the northern tip of Windermere. It's a delightful place! <br />
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Because Ambleside is an established holiday destination for national and international travelers, it has something for everyone. Bertie was delighted with all the activities geared towards people his age! <br />
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Beatrix Potter loved the Lakes, and she built a castle just for children. Wray Castle is a short boat ride (romance!!) from Ambleside, and we spent a good long day there. <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-37222992602070073862017-09-02T19:19:00.000-04:002017-09-02T19:19:16.495-04:00Shameless Photos of Happy Bertie Bringing Cabo Verde up to date, these are the last photos we've taken lately. They mostly just show Bertie playing and being happy; I think our nightly perusal of Calvin and Hobbes is starting to have an impact on my feelings about summer! School starts on September 4, so it's nearly done.... <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-10705439119459344782017-09-02T18:15:00.004-04:002017-09-02T18:15:48.304-04:00Pedra Badejo - Turtles! Ironically, Bertie and Ian visited this cool little town about a week before I did. They went in an unofficial capacity, and I went officially to see the project. A group in Pedra Badejo, Caretta Caretta, is working to protect the turtles that lay eggs on Cabo Verde's beaches. The loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), an endangered species, lays eggs in the mid-Atlantic, and Cabo Verde is one of its preferred destinations. Unfortunately, people still eat turtle here, so nesting females are vulnerable to poaching. The NGO we visited organizes watches to protect the females, guard the nests, and help the babies when they hatch. It's a black sand beach, which is good for turtle eggs because black sand is warmer than white sand, making incubation shorter. <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-27807646254793438132017-09-02T17:17:00.000-04:002017-09-02T17:17:27.462-04:00Around Santiago Island We live on Santiago Island, home to the capital city Praia and the majority of the population. There are stunning valleys, craggy peaks, and almost infinite micro climates, and they make for lovely scenery. <br />
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In the spring, we took a hike near Rui Vaz, about halfway up the island on the western side. <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-13444560864036569612017-09-02T11:46:00.000-04:002017-09-02T11:46:33.743-04:00Birthdays! Bertie discovered cake early in life, and he discovered cake with fire a bit later. But wow - cake with fire is amazing! <br />
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Bertie is a "cluster decorator."
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-84788416442324988322016-03-04T15:19:00.000-05:002016-03-04T15:19:01.869-05:00Bertie's 2nd Christmas! We made it out of Burundi for three weeks of scheduled leave on December 12, only 24 hours delayed in spite of about 15 hours of violent fighting in Bujumbura on December 11. After considerable drama and several ridiculous interactions with RwandAir ground crew (including "we issued you boarding passes on unpurchased tickets in good faith, you can't change your itinerary now!" and "I won't deliver the carseat you gate-checked on Ethiopian Airlines (out of Bujumbura) because it's too heavy and you can't use it on the KLM flight"), we arrived in Portland with no bags but otherwise intact (and with the carseat that the KLM flight attendants were happy to see). <br />
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The day after Christmas, we flew to Chicago for an all-Zaur holiday! <br />
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In early January, I came to Washington for a week of training (the course that used to be called "Crash and Bang" but is now (boring!) called the Foreign Affairs Counter Threat course (FACT)). We learned to identify various guns by sound, we did a good amount of crisis first aid, and we smashed up cars. <br />
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Ian and Bertie stayed in Aurora, and I returned to Burundi alone to collect the animals, close up shop, pack us out, and get an onward assignment. I finally flew away on February 14, arriving in DC just before the "wintry mix" turned nasty. We are so relieved to be all together again. Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-41761909618953709492016-03-03T20:45:00.000-05:002016-03-03T20:45:27.086-05:002015: The Difficult Months We returned to Burundi from our holidays in the evening on April 10. Before we left the airport, I had heard from colleagues that the youth of the governing party (CNDD-FDD) would hold a big rally on April 11 and that it might get violent. It did not, as it turned out, but the president's April 25 declaration that he would be the CNDD-FDD presidential candidate sparked protests around Bujumbura. Police responded with disproportionate force, and the protesters became violent in response. <br />
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On May 13, a military general announced by radio that he was dismissing the executive branch of the government (president, vice-presidents, ministers) but not changing anything about the constitution. The coup failed, and on May 14 battles of machine guns and grenades raged through Bujumbura. In response, the embassy sent all non-emergency personnel out of the country (and all the pets as well). <br />
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Ian and Bertie, along with 75 other U.S. citizens (and some other nationals) evacuated to Kigali, Rwanda, on May 17 via charter plane. With support from the U.S. embassy in Kigali, Ian set up shop in a slummy long-stay apartment/ hotel to wait for whatever would happen in Bujumbura. We were separated for 175 days (they returned to Bujumbura for another 5 weeks on November 5), but I managed to visit a half dozen times or so. <br />
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There are not very many pictures from these months because we did very little beyond maintaining our sanity. All the same, we had a marvelous little boy who brought endless delight and grew up while we were watching! <br />
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Bertie is a growing young Zaur, and Ian struggled to feed him enough. The slummy apartment did not have potable water on site, so Ian carried water from the embassy in five-liter jugs for the entire 175 days of his exile. All the fruits and veggies had to be scrubbed with dish soap, bleached, and rinsed in clean water (the stuff Ian carried) and then consumed before they went bad. It was a herculean effort, but Ian kept Bertie's body and soul together! <br />
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On November 5, Ian and Bertie came back to Bujumbura. The week they arrived saw more gunfights and explosions, and worse fighting near our house, than any other week since the coup. <br />
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At around 3 AM on December 11, rebels attacked three military installations to steal weapons, and fighting continued until about 5 PM. Our flight to Portland for three weeks of Christmas holiday (my first since the France trip in April) was supposed to leave at 5.15, but although the airport stayed open, nobody was working and no commercial flights came in, for obvious reasons. We were amazingly lucky and got out on December 12; in spite of everything in Burundi, our holiday was only 24 hours delayed. After the holidays, Ian and Bertie stayed in Chicago for six weeks while I packed out of Bujumbura, finished what I could, and got our next assignment (Praia, Cabo Verde - come visit!). It was a whirlwind process, but we're getting ourselves back together! <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-24487046620997905972016-03-03T16:05:00.001-05:002016-03-03T16:05:21.470-05:00France III: La Bretagne - part 2After a lovely time with Marie-Therese and Jean-Claude in La Baule, we headed west into deep Brittany. We stayed in the lovely old town of Quimper and took several day trips around the region. <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-75849385985468694722016-03-02T21:25:00.001-05:002016-03-02T21:25:12.649-05:00France II: La Bretagne - part 1! After a week in Paris, Ian, Bertie, and I headed west into Bretagne (Brittany) to the places I had visited when I was 20 and studying in France. We took a detour to the D-Day beaches in Normandy (and reconnected with David) before heading into deep France. <br />
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Batz-sur-Mer <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-44583755972845931272016-03-02T15:43:00.004-05:002016-03-02T15:43:53.364-05:00France I: Paris with Grandma and Grandpa! In late March and early April, we went to France for a three-week family holiday. Grandma and Grandpa met us for a week in Paris, and then we headed west into Bretagne for two more weeks. It was cold, windy, rainy, and very different from both Bujumbura and Estacada. <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-73620126983936282352015-06-14T06:13:00.001-04:002015-06-14T06:13:58.972-04:00Burundi Updates, Second Installment For a small embassy community, we are lucky to have good friends with little kids. <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-49718818942038005872015-06-14T05:55:00.000-04:002015-06-14T05:55:07.856-04:00Burundi Updates, First Installment Now that I'm alone in Buj, it's hard to justify not catching up on the blog. In roughly chronological order, here is the last year in photos (in several installments)! <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-87397047009536793912015-01-16T13:20:00.002-05:002015-01-16T13:20:56.311-05:00The End of Home Leave: the Oregon CoastWe visited the central coast town of Yachats for some down time before the big move. All the relaxation was for naught, as it turned out, because the flights were stressful in the extreme. In the end, we all made it, together, and in one piece. Bujumbura pictures will be coming soon.... <br />
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Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10546393540996864530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313456940104785500.post-61361766841641608342014-02-27T10:57:00.002-05:002014-02-27T10:57:16.446-05:00Bertie! First of Many Installments By popular demand, here are some pix from Bertie's first week. Babies are pretty self-explanatory, so I won't say much more! <br />
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This post is long over-due. In late July Ian and I visited our families in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. We started in Oregon where most of what we did wasn't photo-worthy. We did take one glorious hike up Lookout Mountain. The trail was thick with wildflowers, and Mt Hood was visible almost the whole way up! <br />
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From Portland, we drove into the Olympic National Park for a few days. We stayed first at Lake Quinnault Lodge and saw bits of the southern and western parts of the park. <br />
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I was there! With the sword fern! <br />
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After leaving the Olympics, we pulled off an extraordinary feat of multi-family organization. Ian and I drove to the Anacortes ferry to San Juan Island. There we met his parents who arrived on the pedestrian ferry from Seattle about an hour before we got there. Finally, Ian's brother and his family drove in from Idaho and got the ferry after ours so we all ended up together in a place none of us had ever been within about three hours. It was a great kick-off for a family vacation! <br />
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