All of Mr and Mrs Ippolito's trip photos online!

All the links are now live at IppTrip.com. From your computer, check out the links to all the photo albums in the upper-right corner of the blog. Enjoy!  --------------------------->

How to download photos or entire photo albums to your computer

My wife and I posted all our photos on Picasa Web Albums. You can download the photos using these instructions from Google:
http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39513

Panorama from AutoStitch

ECT 2012 - iPhone Photos and VIDEOS

Have spent most of the day catching up on sleep. Mrs Ippolito and I still working on organizing all our photos. In the meantime, here are all my iPhone photos and videos. Enjoy!

ECT 2012 - iPhone Photos.
https://picasaweb.google.com/115123181846550358255/ECT2012IPhonePhotos

2 minutes away. Would love to get dads to help unload luggage. :)

Passing Lyons Ave

At the 405/5 junction

Making good time. Just passing UCLA. Please make sure all parents keep red curb clear. Park under solar panels.

Waiting for coach at LAX; revised estimated arrival at 9:45 to Rio

Baggage carousel

Landed safely at LAX

Beginning our descent into the LA area.

Airplane is crossing California border now. I'm guessing arrival at Rio between 9 and 9:30. Will keep you posted.

Want to know where we are in the air? Visit http://flightaware.com/live/flight/VRD413 to find out!

Flying over southern Pennsylvania right now at 447 mph. I think we'll all be excited to be in our own beds tonight!

Pilot announced we're scheduled to arrive 10 minutes ahead of schedule. Great news! Take off soon.

All students safely at Kennedy airport. Awaiting scheduled on-time departure at 4:55 PM

Central Park Walking Tour

View from the hotel this morning--the midtown Manhattan skyline; next, Central Park

Picasa Album - ECT 2012 - Day 5

Late night. Photos uploaded. Long, wonderful, exhausting day. Coming home tomorrow! I'll keep you posted on travel status--as always. :)

Check out this Picasa album - ECT 2012 - Day 5.

https://picasaweb.google.com/115123181846550358255/ECT2012Day5

Times Square

Top of the Rock

Shopping on 5th Ave

See the full gallery on Posterous

Riding the New York Subway!

9/11 Memorial

Brooklyn Bridge

Statue of Liberty

New York Harbor Tour

In the Lincoln Tunnel, under the Hudson River, just crossed into NYC

Done with breakfast. On the road now to New York City!

Picasa Album - ECT 2012 - Day 4

Hi,

Check out this Picasa album - ECT 2012 - Day 4.

https://picasaweb.google.com/115123181846550358255/ECT2012Day4

Sorry for the late upload tonight. A bit of roommate drama tonight--nothing too atypical. It's the middle of the trip, and just like a good reality show, this is when roommates start to get on each others' nerves a bit. Nothing out of the ordinary. It just makes for a long night. Off to bed while these finish uploading--should be done around 10:30pm Pacific Time.

Cheers,

Mr Ippolito

More Day 3 photos

Hey parents,

Currently selecting photos for today, but realized that not all of YESTERDAY'S photos uploaded. You can check out 26 new photos in the album from yesterday. I'm working on today's photos right now.

https://picasaweb.google.com/115123181846550358255/ECT2012Day3

Dessert at Positano Coast; after this, the Madcap Theatre--historical comedy

Rocky statue

VIDEO - Running up the Rocky Steps

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In the room where the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights were signed!

Independence Hall Tour; after this, National Constitution Center

Liberty Bell; next, Independence Hall

Lunch at Reading Terminal Market

Had a great morning finishing up our Amish Camp. Now on the road to Philly. Liberty Bell and cheesesteaks, here we come!

Picasa Album - ECT 2012 - Day 3

Good evening families!

Great time tonight with our Amish friends! Lots of photos to share from our very full day. Photos are currently uploading. All should be available by late tonight. Expect about 80 photos or so. 

Again, just to reassure you, Mrs Ippolito and I will share ALL our photos with you at the end of the trip. Between the two of us, we're up to about 700 photos so far.

On one final note before I say goodnight, there has been a very loud room across the hall--really boisterous, lots of laughter and occasional loud cheering . Earlier I was convinced it was our kids, but when I approached the source of the noise, it turned out to be another guest room. The noise continues for nearly an hour (our kids have long since been in bed now), and finally the noise is so raucous that I go across the hall to ask these rowdy young people to please keep it down.

There's hushing, one female voice says, "You think it's the front desk?" Finally the door opens, and there is a room full of people my mother's age, drinking and playing Apples to Apples. They were very polite and apologetic.

Who would have thought the loudest bunch of people on the floor were not teenagers, but senior citizens instead!?

Photo link for Day 3 pics is below. G'night all!

https://picasaweb.google.com/115123181846550358255/ECT2012Day3

VIDEO - The kids were inspired to sing from the Sound of Music after putting on their Amish clothes

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Amish Dessert! Hand churned vanilla ice cream, apple pie, and shoofly pie

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Amish Camp update

Wow, the wifi is fast here is Amish country. Guess there's not much competition for bandwidth out here.

We arrived here around 3:30. Kids changed into Amish clothing, and then we were off to the Stoltzfus family farm to do chores. The Stoltzfus family has five children, and the middle child, 11-year-old Daniel was helping organize the chores. Our kids brushed horses, mucked stables, spread mulch, cut the grass with a hand-mower, and helped the mother sew one of the quilted blankets that the Amish donate to charity. The Stoltzfus family owns a little country store, so we got to shop after we were done with chores. They sell homemade pretzels, potato chips, and root beer, along with lots if other handmade goods.

In just a few minutes we will be headed off to a shoo fly pie demonstration, and then dinner, followed by games with the Stoltzfus family. Remember your child doesn't have their phone tonight, so don't fret if you don't get a call or text. I'll post plenty of photos, though. :)

Amish Camp about to begin. Kids saying goodbye to their electronics.

Arlington National Cemetery

Starting off the morning at the Marine Corps Memorial

Day 2 - 58 photos. About half uploaded now. All should be done by 10:30 Eastern Time.

https://picasaweb.google.com/115123181846550358255/ECT2012Day2

Last stop of the night--Korean War Memorial

Birthday celebration at King Street Blues

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April Fools' Day for history nerds at the Smithsonian Museum of American History

Just finished lunch, now off to our Smithsonian Adventure!

Jefferson Memorial, then off to lunch

At President Washington's estate and final resting place: Mount Vernon

Driving through bucolic Northern Virginia en route to Mount Vernon