Life of a Single Married Lady

Welcome to the first of the Poland posts! I thought it might be a good idea to give you all a sense of the date since I was late in posting about Montreal and Istanbul. 16-21 August: Montreal 22-25 August: Istanbul 25-28 August: Krakow I have a lot of captions this time. For anyone who needs to make the text bigger, hold down the "Control" key and press the + key. When you're done, hold down the "Control" key and press 0. If you didn't know, Wil and I bought Eurail passes to travel by rail around Europe (except for flights in and out of Istanbul). Travelling by rail is my favorite!! It has all the benefits of travelling by car and plane without having to drive or go through security, and the countryside is gorgeous. I waited the entire ride for Hogwarts to appear around the bend. Dexter enjoyed the view, but also could not find Poland's equivalent of Hogwarts. Krakow is a really neat city, and Poland's oldest. It was settled as a wal...

Side note concerning Montreal: we found the Google car!! It was at my church. Pretty awesome. Find Dexter on Street View! ------------------------------------ I have to start here with our flight to Turkey. After a day in Chicago we boarded a 10-hour Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul. BEST.FLIGHT.EVER. We got very  delicious dinner and breakfast along with our snacks, a slippers/blanket/pillow combination, and a little tin with a sleep mask, earplugs, toasty socks, and some toothpaste and a toothbrush. I watched Captain America 2 and Despicable Me 2, and it was just great. Upon arrival in Istanbul, Wil and I promptly sweated through all of our clothing, and proceeded to do so the entire time we were there. It might be that our long non-exposure to summer heat finally caught up to us, but it didn't help that Istanbul was approximately five million degrees (Fahrenheit, of course) and muggy. Fortunately, the city is ancient and full of incredible places to visit,...

Hello all! I know you've been waiting for a blog post for a while now, so here we go! I'm going to start with Montreal, where I attended the World Weather Open Science Conference. The WWOSC draws people from all over the world to discuss the newest, most innovative research projects and form connections for future collaboration. I presented my poster there, and someone actually asked me if this was my postdoc research! He looked suitably impressed when I corrected him (it's my Master's work). Fun fact: Montreal has two universities with atmospheric science programs. One is McGill University, which I almost applied to for grad school. The other is the University of Quebec at Montreal, which is the only school in North America to teach atmospheric sciences in French! Dress courtesy of Keri Santeiu, because she knows how to dress. Derek (my adviser), Wil, and I made sure to sample the classic Canadian dish poutine, which is a bunch of fries smothered in cheese curds, ...