We had a small lunch at C’est La Vie outside the market. It was one of the only outside places to eat that we could find. The day was so pretty we just couldn’t sit inside.
Downtown Lancaster
Penn Square in downtown Lancaster.
We went to The Exchange for happy hour. It’s located on the top of the Marriott. What a great view of the city.
The views…
From the highest spot we could eat to the lowest. We had dinner at Proof. It’s owned by the son of some friends of ours. The food was wonderful, but there was definitely no view in this cave-like restaurant. Stan had the haddock stuffed with crab and I had the cavatelli.
continued… Once we reached the next floor down, we went directly to the flight simulator, which we remembered as the funnest activity at Kennedy Space Center. The area where people lined up was reminiscent of Space Mountain at Disneyland in … Continue reading →
After a crowded and hectic week at re:Invent we were getting ready to head to the airport and learned we had a lengthy half-day flight delay. Rather than wait around, we decided to turn the delay into a weekend adventure at the Amangiri resort in the stunning Colorado Plateau. It was wonderful—the exact opposite environment…
Friday Harbor, in Washington’s San Juan Islands, is another easy weekend getaway for us. A twenty-minute walk from our apartment brings us to the Kenmore Air seaplane base for a 50-minute flight to Friday Harbor. The seaplane trip is a big part of the draw for us. We love the close-up aerial views as we…
This past fall we visited eight counties on three continents, starting and ending with ocean cruises. We began the season in Norway, first in Oslo and then in Longyearbyen, before a trans-Arctic cruise across the top of the planet, where we became one of the fewer than one thousand people who have stood at the…
continued… We looked at the Atlantis Space Shuttle for a few minutes from different angles. She flew 33 missions, spent 307 days in space and flew 126-million miles. Her final flight finished on July 21, 2011. Per the signs, Atlantis … Continue reading →
Friday, March 14 – Saturday, March 20 — This week has been fun. On Saturday, Dad made French toast for breakfast. We took the dinghy to town with Fynn. We had lunch at the yacht club and got groceries. After … Continue reading →
We’ve taken several trips with Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), and really enjoy the experience of The Haven, a ship-within-a-ship concept that NCL pioneered in 2005 and many other cruise lines have since duplicated. Haven guests have exclusive access to restaurants, bars, lounges and public spaces in the Haven area, and priority access to restaurants, shows…
continued… There was a large exhibit on Fisher Space Pens, which have been on every manned space flight since Apollo-7 in 1968. These remarkable pens are retractable, pressurized, all-metal, work in zero gravity, work underwater, write upside down, work in … Continue reading →
