Anja and The Buhrgers of Calais

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It took awhile, but we finally bought a car!

Our maiden road trip was to Dover, where we hopped the ferry to Calais, France for a little day trip. Its a bit strange to wrap my brain around being closer to France than I used to live to Seattle.
It was Sunday and the shops were closed, but thankfully the wine stores (and the bargain basement prices on great french wines) are open 7 days a week. Priorties being what they are.

After we bought a nice little wine selection we did a little sight seeing. It was a cloudy, hazy day so the photo ops were not so great. I got to see Rodin's Buhrgers of Calais, which is just plain cool. From Calais we went down to Boulogne sur Mer. We had a late lunch and then it started raining so we drove over to St. Omer and then back up to Calais. We didn't do much walking around because of the crappy weather, but it was fun and we saw plenty of things to return to when it is a bit nicer out.

Hopefully this is the first of many road trips!

Still here

eggs on patio
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Yes - we are still here. Sorry for not updating more often. We definately need to work on that.

Easter was low key around here. We don't celebrate it religiously. Heck, we barely do a secular thing. But everyone loves a good egg hunt, and I will take any excuse that comes along to play with dye. Axel bought brown eggs so we were a bit concerned about how they would turn out, but we were pleasantly surprised. These were made with regular old food coloring. Anja and I had a blast making them. Her favorite is the puke colored ones. Thats our girl!