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The best zoos we’ve visited in the United States and beyond

Learning about animals has always been a big part of our travels and we’ve planned many of our trips around adventures to see animals especially when the kids were little. We live near Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle which I truly believe is one of the best zoos in the United States and I think […]


Calder: In Motion at the Seattle Art Museum

I always love the story behind the art in our city and if you go to Calder: In Motion at the Seattle Art Museum this exhibition has a really beautiful connection. This exhibition is part of an ongoing gift from the Shirley family to the Seattle Art Museum and it has a goal of helping […]


How “worth it” is using a Toronto CityPASS for a summer family trip?

As usual, we were last-minute in looking up what to do in Toronto for our summer trip (all we had planned was the Hockey Hall of Fame) and discovered online that there is a Toronto CityPASS and instantly knew we didn’t really need to do any more research. We are big CityPASS fans and have […]


Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Free in New York thanks to the Seattle Art Museum

My family didn’t pay anything to see the Karl Lagerfeld exhibit (it’s there until July 16) or the recently opened Van Gogh exhibit (on display until late August) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when we visited a few weeks ago. We have a Patron Membership at our Seattle Art Museum and they have a […]


Why a Woodland Park Zoo membership in Seattle is a very good idea

When is the last time you went to Woodland Park Zoo? I grew up in Vancouver BC, and even though Seattle is a three hour drive away, my parents would always get a membership for the zoo so it was a big part of my childhood and now it’s a big part of my kids’ […]


How talking to strangers might be more helpful than you think (Great Ocean Road, Australia)

“You aren’t going to see any koalas in the wild,” my friends who had been there told me when I said this was my number one reason for visiting Australia.  They’re all in sanctuaries and zoos where you can see them, hold them and meet them.  But you won’t see koalas in the wild and […]


The best way to see a bear up close (Woodland Park Zoo)

My sister who is an animal lover recently watched a horrific grizzly hunt that somehow made its way into her Facebook feed and it totally disturbed her so much even days after she saw it that she told me not to watch it-EVER.  She described it as the story of a beautiful trapped bear who […]


To the two guys in my life I can always count on to read my posts

I watched an emotional video put out by a marketing company in my hometown-an old classmate of mine is actually in the video-and it made me tear up and realize how much I take the time I have with both of you for granted.  We do take a lot of people for granted in life, […]


Because the world needs more black rhinos and amazing human beings (Chizi’s tale, a review)

My kids don’t know Jack Jones, but I wish they did.  He’s a senior in high school in Connecticut and I think he must love animals as much as my guys do because he has written an amazing book about a black rhino and when I heard about his book “Chizi’s Tale” I knew we […]


A place where you can take a zillion pictures of giraffes without needing a passport (Dallas zoo with kids)

One of my sons has had a giraffe huggie he has loved since birth and if it’s not his spirit animal I don’t know what is.  So the giraffes at the Dallas Zoo made him and us extremely happy.  They were so majestic and interactive and they seemed to have a lot of free space […]


Local love on a Monday

Happy Monday lovelies! I can hardly wait for the boys to go to school this morning because this book arrived in the mail this weekend and I haven’t had a chance to open it and read it yet.  I love star signs and the fact that these Astrologers are twins is something very cool to […]


Lining up at The Eiffel Tower and the Paris zoo but not at the Louvre! (Paris with kids)

Maybe the first thing you should check when you book a holiday is if things are actually going to be open in the place you’re visiting or if things will be super-crowded when you get there. But we didn’t and this wasn’t our first time making this kind of mistake. I was too excited about […]


If your kids love coin operated rides(Ueno zoo and Keio mall, Tokyo)

When we first found this rooftop playground in Tokyo a couple years ago the boys’ eyes lit up like firecrackers and if we had enough 100 yen coins we could have entertained them for hours.  Of course we looked for more magic of this sort when we returned.  And we found a few fabulous ones.  […]


Zoo Atlanta post-rain

One thing I’ve learned about going to zoos is that some of my best days have been on rainy ones.  You tend to linger a little longer at exhibits that are indoors that you might blow past on sunny days, the animals often behave a little differently and there are far fewer two-legged animals wandering […]


Pastry Face (Ken’s Artisan Bakery, Portland)

This is the look of a kid who knows a good pain au chocolat at a delicious bakery. Oh and here’s his brother who has also been well-schooled. As a family of world travelers we don’t know all the famous paintings, we don’t often read those exhibit signs at museums or zoos, we sometimes miss […]


A birthday

Somewhere in another city my dad is celebrating a birthday.  One of those big milestone ones with round happy numbers and hopefully no flamingos on the lawn.  I’m not sure if you’re a flamingo guy, eh dad.  But I do know that you’re a coffee guy and every time I go to a coffee shop, […]


A day of making…

SNOT.  We had runny noses all day today.  It was sad because we were looking forward to hanging out with friends, but it wasn’t one of those miserably sick kind of days, so we made the most of it. We started the day with a glorious sunrise and a play doh picnic in the kitchen. […]


Phoenix Zoo (Phoenix, Arizona)

Last year, around this time, it got quite cold here in Seattle and we decided to get away to sunny Phoenix for some vitamin D.  Unfortunately, there was a really cold snap there too, so we ended up wearing jackets the whole time.  But it was still warmer there than here.  One of the highlights […]