2013 Helminsklee Christmas Greeting
In true FuquaVision style, we bring you our last minute production of the (not quite so epic) Helminsklee Christmas card.Enjoy the show!Christmas 2013 - Helminsklees Actually
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Bromantic Paris Week
Greetings from bloggington-station-land! It's a new year folks, and I'd like to start it off with a new beginning of sorts. As you may have noticed, ever since we started the process of preparing for...
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6 Week Parental Visitation Rights
It's an old axiom in American culture that a visit from the in-laws is usually something to dread. Luckily, in our family that does not hold true. Gloria and I are extremely fortunate to have two sets...
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The Matterhorn!
Tomorrow morning, we are getting on an early plane to go see the Matterhorn. Typically, that would mean this:But, this time is different. No, we're not going to Disney to see the Matterhorn, the ride....
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Helminski Elders in Europe!
We're back from our snowboarding trip to Switzerland. Here's a little taste:This was the view from our apartment. Words don't do it justice.Yeah, it was like that. Zermatt is a pretty magical place,...
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Zermatt: Snowboarding in the Swiss Alps. Also known as heaven.
SNOW! MATTERHORN! HEAD EXPLODING!!! So.....a couple weeks ago we took a snowboarding trip to Switzerland. It was awesome. Seriously. We went to one of the most incredible ski/snowboarding locations in...
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Fuquans in London!
One of the things we missed most when we were in Indonesia was our friends. Now that we're here in London we are soooooo very happy that we get to have visitors again. We've already had visits from...
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Fuqua Friday!!! (and Thursday and Saturday too)
First, I owe everyone an apology. I've fallen behind a bit on my posts and have gone almost 3 weeks without posting. Shame on me.But, I am back on it now and will be updating this at least once per...
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Big Things are Afoot in March
March is a big, important month and has a lot going on. It heralds the approach of springSt. Patrick's DayMarch Madness (we're just gonna pretend Mercer never happened)The Ides of Marchmy...
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Sherlocking, (Cumber)bitches
Over the past year and a half Gloria and I have developed a bit of a TV viewing habit. Instead of watching shows at regular intervals, we tend to binge watch them.We did this with the first couple...
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One Night in (Old) York
When we lived in Indonesia we traveled quite a bit and we were very fortunate to visit exotic places like Bali, Malaysia, and Papua. Now that we're living in London, our travels have taken a bit of a...
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Tower of London night tour
A few weeks ago, our friends Erica and Jordan came up with the idea of visiting the Tower of London after dark. We had previously visited the tower, but the prospect of seeing it at night was...
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THE Boat Race!
The UK has a long history steeped in ceremony and tradition. One of those traditions is The Boat Race. It's not just A boat race. It is THE Boat Race. When we first heard about it, we thought it...
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If it's not Scottish....
The past few weeks have been quite a whirlwind. We've had events here in London, a couple trips out of town (one of which involved driving on the wrong side of the road!), visits from 3 sets of...
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Highclere Castle (or as we ugly Americans call it, Downton Abbey!)
The day after we got home from Scotland, we took a quick trip out of London to go see Highclere Castle, or as it's more commonly known: Downton Abbey.True to form, it's a beautiful place. The castle...
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Welcome to the Jurassic Coast
Having Irish roots, I have long desired to visit Ireland. Finally the time had come and we scheduled a weekend trip over to the Emerald Isle, but, Aer Lingus had other plans for us. Apparently there...
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Perry-palooza
After our epic road trip, we had a visit from Gloria's old boss Andrew. For those who know Andrew it should come as no surprise that we met at a pub for a beer or 10. Good times!Perry-palooza 2014 was...
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Aki-Gram! (and other British adventures)
Shortly after the palooza known as Perry, we had a great visit from our business school classmates Shilu and Aki. We had fun bumming around London, checkout out touristy stuff, and even had a visit...
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Jaffe-tastic holidays! (part 1)
Continuing with our trend of having visitors here in London, we bring you: The Jaffes in London!Jen & Brett, two of Gloria's friends from undergrad (Zot! Zot!), came out for a long overdue visit...
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Chapter 2 is coming to an end, and in true Flying Helminskis fashion, we've put together a video to share where Chapter 3 is going to take us. The last 3 seconds are golden so if anything, stick it out...
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