Craig and Anna built this Car for the the daddy daughter pinwood derby. Craig built it and Anna decorated it. It was called the Aloha Car. Anna went with a Hawaii theme. Much to everyone's surprise Anna won. She didn't lose a single race although the last one was really close. No one was more surprised than Craig. Now we are just trying to convince Zach to use it in his next pinewood derby.....but he doesn't like all the flowers.
Craig and I had the opportunity to go to Sweden with my parents the first week of June. This was really exciting for us because we had never been outside the country before. I first stop was New York. We flew in late Monday night and our plane for Sweden didn't leave till the next afternoon. So we saw as much of New York as we could in 4 hours. This picture is Craig in Time Square.
We decided that we wanted to see the Statue of Liberty and Ground Zero. This picture is mom, dad and Craig down in the subway trying to figure out where we are going. The subway in New York is a very interesting place. When we were on the train this guy who was having a very heated conversation with himself sat next to mom. It was funny just watching mom. The guy was very upset and kept swearing at himself or who ever he thought he was talking to. Mom was very relieved when he got off.
Thanks to Dad's frequent flier miles we were able to fly business class from New York to Amsterdam. I must say this has pretty much ruined flying in coach for me!!!
This is Goteborg Sweden. I of course have many pictures but I will just included a few to kind of show what it looks like. This is the canal that goes through the city and ends in the harbor. Goteborg is the biggest habor in Scandinavia.
This was one of the more interesting traditions. There were many of these truck full of kids driving around the city. Evidently we were there during the University Graduation week. This is like one week of parties. Every afternoon these trucks would hit the streets. The would have music blasting and they would honk the horns with the kids in the back would be drinking... some just with wine glasses but most with the whole bottle. It was kind of funny to watch. I kept thinking that one of the kids would fall out of the truck. As the trucks would drive past the kids parents would be on the side of the street holding sign with picture of the child when they were little. And taking picture of their kids as they drove by on the trucks.
Anyway that is a quick update of our trip. It was really fun to see somewhere new....but is also great when you land back in the USA.
We finally got cable internet. It was becoming next to impossible to down load pictures on to my blog. My computer would freeze almost everytime I tried. Anyway now we have that fixed. Anyway I thought I would just do a quick update with what has been going on. These are the kids at Easter. I went with the green/blue theme. You can't tell but Anna got bands on her braces to match her dress. It is all about style.
