After the most miserable Winter and Spring imaginable here in Seattle, we headed off to St. Louis in May to catch up on grandkid-hugging, tiki-drink-testing, general good fun and some warm weather. We accomplished all four objectives and had a great time!

I know that thousands of readers look at this blog to read about our travels inside and outside the U.S. of A., and so may be slightly disappointed that this blog is about our Christmas trip to St. Louis. Honestly, I won’t feel slighted if you skip right on by. But a big reason I do this blog is so...

We arrived in St. Louis pretty whupped from the flights from France but glad to be there. We got to the airport about midnight and had the great pleasure of seeing Clara there - we hadn’t expected that! The next day was a kind of hanging around day, taking a nap, just relaxing and catching up.