Vojta Family News

Utah!

2011-06-05T11:03:00.005-05:00

We spent nine days hiking and backpacking in Utah.
We did two nice long hikes in Canyonlands National Park, a four day backpacking trip in fantastic Dark Canyon

slot canyon hikes in the San Rafael Swell

and finished with a beautiful hike in Capitol Reef National Park:
Visit our photo gallery for more pictures.

Horses!

2010-10-31T06:17:00.006-05:00

Since September we have been leasing a horse for Sophia. Her name is Rani.

Sophia now spends all her free time at the barn.
Here she is riding Misty...

... and Rani at a horse show in October.

Back from our summer travels

2010-08-14T13:10:00.017-05:00

Greetings- we are back from our summer travels. Check out our new pictures in the photo album!
First we spent four weeks in Germany. We stayed mainly in Dresden and were happy to visit with family and friends. It is great to reconnect every summer - and to catch up on some rock climbing and to see a couple of operas, things we can't do in Rolla.
We traveled to the Harz mountains for a few days, hiked, climbed and looked at medieval cities and Romanesque churches -such as St. Cyriakus in Gernrode:

After a short break at home we took off for the West. Work for Thomas, vacation/"Summer school" for the kids and Agnes. We spent one week in Santa Fe where Thomas attended a conference. We explored the museums and the hiking trails in the mountains.
From Santa Fe, we drove to California, camping en route. We got to see Mesa Verde National Park and Natural Bridges.

We stayed four weeks in Santa Barbara - Thomas had a workshop - and enjoyed the beach, the mountains and more rock climbing. On the drive back we visited Cedar Breaks, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and Fossil Beds N.M.

We returned to Rolla full of new impressions and experiences - and definitely ready to be back home. It's a BIG country, we drove 5,000 miles (that's about 8000km) and don't think we'll be up for any long drives soon.
School for the kids starts next Monday, we have many new books and are excited. Classes at the university begin a week later.

I hope you all had a great summer!

Happy Advent Season - Frohe Adventszeit

2009-11-27T17:27:00.005-06:00

We wish all our friends and family a wonderful Advent season.

2009-10-27T19:31:00.009-05:00

Thomas just spent three weeks in India. He visited our friend Raj at Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai (formerly known as Madras) and colleagues in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). In addition to lots of good physics, there were temples, elephants and monkeys...

The pictures are up!

2009-09-21T14:52:00.003-05:00

We organized our photographs and I put a link to our photo album. Right now, we show our favorites from our time in Europe.

Welcome to our News blog

2009-09-20T15:50:00.001-05:00

I have finally decided that our old webpage was too outdated and that we should adopt a better tool to share our news… so here’s my first ever blog.

I have been woefully behind in reporting our family’s news. From Christmas 2008 to July 2009 we have been living in Germany and only got back in time for the new school year and semester. As soon as I have the photo gallery up and running I will post a link. We had a fabulous time there. The kids went to German schools and perfected their German language skills. We spent the holidays traveling. We’ve been to Mallorca, Paris, Prague, the Alps, went rock climbing in Saxon Switzerland and saw many castles and museums in Germany.