Family Picnic

Today and tomorrow marks the celebration of the annual Trojanovich family picnic in Calhan, CO (well, in recent years, held at the American Legion hall in nearby Ramah). Picture yourself and a hundred of your close, somewhat distant, and "i had nooo idea we were even related!" kinfolk gathered together for the weekend. Sometimes there's a game of horseshoes going on, sometimes guitar and singing, crafts, tug-o-war, a hay ride, a Christian devotional, and of course, plenty of eating and socializing. As long as I can remember, we've been having these picnics -- we've been having them a lot longer than I have years on this planet. These family picnics were always a happy and special event for my dad. There you would find him in his element. Time to step away from the computer; do some manual labor; catch up with family. He was always one of the "organizers", very involved.

Since Erin and I and the girls can't make the trip home to Colorado from London, we decided to make a Google Earth video instead that links, figuratively, Calhan with London. It's not a video in the sense of getting to stick your tongue out at the video camera and sneak rabbit ears onto the person next to you. Rather, it is a "geo tour" that zooms from place to place. If you'd like to see it, and learn about some of the places we've traveled in England so far, have a gander (18M .kmz file, install Google Earth if needed).

Thank goodness for technology (and Google)! The geo tour condenses nearly all of our tours around the UK in the span of just a few minutes. The original plan was to blog about each one of them separately. We may still do that, but events of the current day (World Cup, my new Brompton, future travel plans, a bump on the way) make for pretty interesting fodder in their own right.

So for now, we bid adieu and wish a Happy Fourth of our July our countrymen, from the land of our colonial forebearers.