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As soon as we found out we were going to Russia we knew we had to visit St. Petersburg.  I hadn’t been in 16 years since I had lived there as an exchange student and I wanted to see it again as an adult. Randy had never been and he didn’t want to miss out.  Randy couldn’t take any timeContinue reading “36 Hours in St Petersburg”

I’ve always been a bit of a nervous traveler.  I know that may be hard to believe, but it’s true. The week leading up to a departure I make lists, pack, make countless trips to CVS and make more lists, all to make myself feel more prepared.  I pack our suitcases days in advance and plan ourContinue reading “Reasons I love Randy”

When we were in St. Petersburg this past weekend we spent an afternoon with Polina. Polina had been my exchange student sophomore year of high school.  She came to Staten Island for a semester to stay with my family and I stayed with her family in St Petersburg for a semester. I haven’t seen her since. That’s 16Continue reading “Reasons I love Randy”

You may be sitting at home wondering how the Ali’s decide where to go and what they see. Well, before we head out for a trip, there is a lot of research that goes into what we see and do. Here is a little snippet of our intense St. Petersburg research before we started hittingContinue reading “Trip Planning”

The name suggests several ponds, yet when we arrived there was just one. It is a beautiful pond right in the middle of the city.  I’m finding more and more of these oasis of calms in crazy Moscow. Adam loved it. He loves water and is now obsessed with birds so this was his dreamContinue reading “Patriarch's Ponds”

Adam’s new obsessions is eating.  What is Adam eating you ask. Well number three on his list of tasty items are bananas… which always taste better when all over your face. Number two on his list is his belt, newly discovered last Friday afternoon. Are you looking? Ok good! Just a quick nibble. and numberContinue reading “Baby Obsessions”

Having a great time in St Petersburg!! Be back tomorrow to post all about our trip 🙂 Something to hold you over until then.

This made my day today 🙂 http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Dfbffd074788491e5%26itag%3D5%26source%3Dpicasa%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%253Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1346006231%26sparams%3Did,itag,source,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D9D9D3897999D5AF51DB9FD084BDBE0090D973E30.5D36EB3B192FE69A721CE428617273579C76E75A%26key%3Dlh1

After five years of living in London, I was most excited about being in the US this year for the summer. There is nothing like the summer at home.  Yummy corn and tomato season, hotdogs and hamburgers, the beach, thunderstorms, fresh fish and lobster. The weekend before we left for Russia we drove up to Manasquan to visitContinue reading “Jersey Shore”

My friend Will just sent me this.  I think he may be as excited as us about our move to the Philippines  🙂  I love this video. I just watched it three times and it made me smile each time!  I also think I’m ready to move there, I’ve finally figured out how to spellContinue reading “It's More Fun in the Philippines”