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Putting up the Christmas Tree

jordinas — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:08:38 +0000

Today we put up our Christmas Tree. Mateo had a lot of fun helping Papa put the lights on the tree and putting ornaments on it. Here are a few pictures:

Building a Gingerbread House

jordinas — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:05:06 +0000

Mateo’s pre-school had a Gingerbread house building event. So we went down and built a gingerbread house. It was a lot of fun, and Mateo had a great time alternating between eating a piece of candy and sticking one onto the house. We took a few pictures which we have attached below.

New hosting provider

jordinas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:35:19 +0000

I had been quite happy with the service I was getting from IXWebhosting for a few years, but after a few unexpected outages and the lack of secure email support, I started to look around for another provider. The final push came when I requested PHP5 support on the server and was only given the option to move to a new server with them – which required that I make a backup of the entire site, and recreate it on their new server and it all had to be done within 2 weeks of starting.

Well since I had to rebuild the site, I figured I should look for a new provider and because I only do this as a hobby, would give myself 3 or 4 weeks to do it, but in worst case scenario, I have my old hosting account until March 2010. So, I have moved to Arvixe and if you see this post you are on the new server

So far the experience has been quite seemless, and I hope you also find the new server performs faster.

Our September 2009 European Trip

kordinas — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:49:16 +0000

It was a year in the making and finally September 2009 arrived. Kate’s parent’s, Shel and Caroline, finally came to visit us in Switzerland and we kept them super busy!!! We did a few day trips around Switzerland and then we were off to Rome, London, Paris, Palma de Mallorca and Germany. All that in just under a month! We all had a great time and only caught small colds at the end of our trip. We took over 2,000 photos but we narrowed it down to the best ones we hope. We hope you enjoy the photos.

Berschnerfall Hike

jordinas — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:38:25 +0000

We took a small hike near Walenstadt to a 46m (150ft approx) tall waterfall nestled in the woods. It was about 45 minutes to get there and some of the terrain was quite difficult for Mateo. The waterfall was quite pretty, and we had lunch on the footbridge near the falls. Unfortunately Mateo spiked a fever while we were eating lunch, so we had to head back home with Mateo riding piggy back most of the way back. Mateo is doing just fine – he had the fever through the evening and was fine by the next morning.

Here are some pictures we took -

Our trip to Europa-Park

kordinas — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:47:59 +0000

We took a trip to Europa-Park in Germany. Jose and I took advantage of the Child-Swap so we could each ride the coasters and bigger rides. Mateo surprised us by going on a lot of rides and pretty big ones too! Not a lot of pictures because we were too busy enjoying the rides It reminded me of Bush Gardens in Williamsburg with themed countries. A fun trip for the whole family!

Paragliding Video

jordinas — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:32:24 +0000

Paragliding

jordinas — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:28:22 +0000

For Kate’s birthday present, I bought her a day of paragliding. We took our chances with the weather and got so lucky! We got 3 flights in each. It was a great feeling to be up in the air and flying!! We had a great day!! Video’s to be posted at a later date.

Day at the Swiss Transportation Museum

jordinas — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:20:04 +0000

Once more we went to the Swiss Transportation museum, one of Mateo’s favorite places in Switzerland. They have completely redone the Car / Truck area, as well as the play area in the main courtyard. Mateo had a lot of fun with construction equipment.

I took some pictures. I was experimenting mostly with using my fixed length 35mm lens (52mm equivalent on a full frame camera), and also using the pop-up flash diffuser for the indoor shots.

Trip to Jungfraujoch

kordinas — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:36:12 +0000

We went to Jungfraujoch, the Top of Europe on June 14th. We took a lot of pictures.