Toni's Year of Travel : 2003 encapsulated

Dear Friends and Family, Yesterday, I was playing Travel with Ari. I said, “let’s go visit gramma.” I put Ari’s backpack on him, filled it with Tarzan figurines, and headed for the door. “How do you plan on getting there, young lady?” mommy asked. “With a plane and a boat, I said, then added, “ and a car.” “Choochoo train!” Ari screamed. So I thought I could give you a summary of what our year looked like: January We go to the beach a lot in Kailua, where we live in a highrise apartment building. February Gramma and Grampa visit us in Kailua. We can walk to their apartment and they take us around in our double stroller. Ari almost gets circumcised but talks mommy and daddy out of it. March Everything mommy can’t sell on Ebay, she packs into the Volvo and leaves it in a garage, then we take a plane to see Gramma and Grampa again. Then we are on another plane to see Oma and Opa again. April We take the train down to Bad Gastein Austria, where Oma and Opa take us for walks around the Alps and where we can throw things off their balcony. It’s a lot of fun to stay in an apartment with no electricity, and I help mom light and blow out the candles every night. May Mommy gets ripped off on Ebay, I see her tearing her hair out on the computer. We take a car down to our boat in France, then take another train up to Hamburg. I like the train better than the car. June Take a plane to Santa Fe New Mexico, Where Mommy read Aristotle and other stuff without pictures. We got to watch lots of Cinderella, eat lots of ice cream, and go to the children’s museum with gramma and grampa. July Still in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Some nights, gramma puts us to bed. Mommy doesn’t know how to do that. We get to see an Indian feast, play in the swimming pool, and watch gramma and gramma schwitz. August Mommy wears a funny cap and gown. We celebrate my fourth birthday with piñata, pin the tail on the donkey, and lots of friends. Take a plane to Germany in time for a second birthday party. September Take a train to the Lüneburger Heide, where I get to play with kittycats and Ari gets to play with a cool train set. Then we take a train down to South of France and help daddy to Make the boat. October We drive to St. Tropez to look at Sarah Darling’s pretty Galapagos animal pictures. Ari can’t talk them out of it this time, and we take him to the clinic. His peepee hurts for awhile, so we don’t take any trains or planes for a few weeks. November I go to a French school called “La Maternelle.” I learn to say “Stop that!” and “Sit down!” in French.  Ari goes to his own school called “the Little Chickies.” Sometimes I go there with him, and I like it there better. December We take a train back up to Oma and Opa’s to celebrate Channukah and Christmas. Daddy escapes from a bad guy in Port Napoleon with our boat, which he sails to Port Barcares, near the Spanish border. We can see snow on the Pyrenees from our deck. Next year, we’ll be sailing a whole lot more, we hope.