http://fuchster.com/grace Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:33:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A weekend visit with Grandma and Grandpa gave the girls the chance to do a lot of fun things - but their Powder Valley hike was perhaps the one that had them asking "Why" the most (a sustained 2 hour "why" for just about everything we saw). Our trail had ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=182 Lucy is becoming quite the jet setter - having just completed a quick trip to NY for the weekend (or airport code HPN which we were told meant "high-priced neighbors.") While the more traditional jet setter would have flown in for an exhibit at an art gallery, dined in a ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=164 Since there's no way these the girls could have inherited any sense of rhythm or gracefulness from their parents, we feel that ballet is one way to keep them from having constantly scraped knees and elbows (although Lucy in particular seems to manage to stay perpetually scabbed). At the end ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=169 Living close to a fairly busy intersection ensures that the Fuchster clan hears a regular stream of sirens, car horns and even that occasional crash sound. The girls tend to focus on the sirens from fire engines and have taken to playing "firefighter" in the backyard. But unlike real firefighters, ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=175 Although we can't even begin to sort all of the photos we took over the 4th of July, we thought'd we start with this one since we'll probably need to have some prints made. The girls were visited by their cousins Anna & Matthew and their Aunt Karen who were ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=150 Grace was treated to a bit of a belated birthday present as her Aunt Anne flew into town and took her to her first Opera: The Marriage of Figaro. Despite being surrounded by dozens of snoring senior citizens, Grace held her own and apparently was completely fixated for the entire ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=178 Although "see as much strange stuff as possible" was one goal of the trip, another was to actually introduce the kids to their first (and second) national parks. First stop on the tour: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky - a photographers worst nightmare since it's so dark in the cave that when ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=148 There are few things as exciting in the state of Kentucky (sorry Kentucky) as standing next to full scale replicas of Dinosaurs at Dinosaur World. Despite having all the obvious signs of being a tourist trap, this incredibly strange place was not only one of those "only in America" type experiences ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=146 Next stop in our midwest tour was Churchill Downs - where we learned the full value of the Truckster. After being rejected by multiple parking areas, we were informed that buses can actually park in a lot practically in front of the place. How very American - punish the small ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=145 So the Fuchster clan, along with our friends Ryan, Archna, Sanjay and Anya, decided to do go on a little midwest tour. At first we thought we'd be real midwesterners and rent an RV but the thought of 8 people using one toilet for a week (and then driving everywhere ... http://fuchster.com/grace/?p=144