Vollmer Vacation Ventures

We are now back in Nebraska. Many of you know this already, if you’ve been following Dave or me on Facebook, Twitter or our family’s homepage. We made a nuisance of ourselves advertising every point of our trip to the world, much to the delight of potential thieves, as someone pointed out to me during … Read more

Our Rainy Day in NYC!

Enjoy our pictures/captions from our rainy day in NYC! We were hoping to see a Yankees game on this day, and the original plan was to take the train into NYC, get on a subway to the ballpark and see the game, but the rain was so bad we knew it would be rained out! … Read more

I Swear, I’m Not the One Teaching This!!!

Okay, perhaps I am teaching this by answering Jacob’s many questions — but I really truly had to think hard about whether 15 is 1/8 of 120. And notice the complete sentences about it — I think we might be able to introduce fractions soon… Yesterday, during the thunderstorms, we went to the library around … Read more

Ring Ring Ring Ring…Banana Phone!

The song is stuck in my head now. Why? Because we brought this artificial banana with us on vacation and Dave has been charged with photographing it everywhere. Yes, like Flat Stanley. The pictures of this banana as it travels across America are being assembled in a photo album for one of Dave’s colleagues, who … Read more

Greetings from Lake Michigan

We stopped with Andy, Suzy and their kids on the lakeshore for just over an hour. Between about 4-5pm, 8 hours into our drive. It was cool and breezy, but the water wasn’t bad and Timmy got pretty wet. The kids did lots of running around and I think the exercise did them some good.This … Read more