Archive for the 'Vacation' Category

Sitch Family Thanksgiving in Ottawa

The Sitch clan returned to Ottawa for a long weekend Thanksgiving at home. Ben + Allison drove up from Toronto, Joe flew in from Calgary (H couldn’t attend, bummer), and Sara and I flew in from SF. Ottawa’s miserable summer broke for this one glorious weekend.

The trip was perfect: morning 10k runs, a [...]

Visiting our old family house in Sheffield, England

I was in the UK and Ireland on business and had a meeting with a lab manager at the University of Sheffield. When our family lived in England we lived in Sheffield! I swung by our old house and it’s funny how much I remember.

The coal chute was filled in, and [...]

New York family vacation

My family has suddenly discovered that vacations are fun. It all started with a two week vacation in Italy for John’s 60th in April 2008. I met Bekks and John in Brussels on business in September, then Ben + Allison and Joe flew out to California for Christmas and New Years. Who [...]

The perfect birthday present: Riding our new Triumph Speed Triple home from Long Beach

Sara outdid herself this year. This ranks up there with “best present ever”.

We bought the bike from pretty much the nicest guy in the whole world, John in Long Beach, and rode home over the long weekend. It’s the bike I’ve been dreaming about, lusting over. It’s a 1050cc Triumph Speed Triple, [...]

Christmas 2008 in San Francisco and Tahoe with brothers Ben (+ Allison) and Joe

Joe flew in first for some extended bonding time. We had a nice Christmas in Napa with Sara’s extended family.

Ben and Allison joined us Christmas evening. Yes, our small 1-bedroom apartment will happily sleep 5. That’s Joe in his hallway/bedroom.

Winetasting in Napa was followed by a week of snowboarding in Tahoe. [...]