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 […]
Try to find a better bathroom, I dare you. The best bathroom in the world is arguably the one at the Nashville Zoo. My teenagers and I stopped by the Nashville zoo on a recent trip to the area and it was a cold and chilly day so we even ended up with a “cold […]
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’ […]
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 […]
We are so lucky these days to have the world at our fingertips when we plan for our travels. We can buy tickets, research places and send emails across the world late at night without even leaving our homes and I am so thankful for the travel blogging community and how amazing and responsive people […]
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 […]
Is it just me or is it also difficult for you to drag your family out of the house on a lazy Sunday afternoon? I needed to get some fresh air so I told my kids we would either go for a hike in the woods or an ‘urban hike’ at the zoo and if […]
Wildlights at Woodland Park Zoo might be a newer light show in Seattle-it’s only on its third year-but we’ve been going since it started and it has become one of our family’s favorite Seattle holiday traditions. The other night when we visited, the sky was bright and clear and there was still a dusting of […]
I can barely count how many trips I’ve put into my trip-finder in Expedia for this summer and then not booked my cart. Cabo San Lucas, Alaska, Costa Rica, Belize, San Diego and the Bahamas have all been super tempting, but the weather here in Seattle is just so beautiful, I can’t imagine leaving and […]
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 […]
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. […]
I don’t think we’ve ever been to Singapore without going to their Zoo breakfast and we’ve traveled there a bunch of times in the past 10 years. I absolutely LOVE this breakfast. There is an abundance of good food (this is Singapore after all) and it’s a great place to get your feet wet if […]
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 […]
Oh my favorite happy place in Seattle is even happier right now. There are baby animals everywhere and it makes me feel like I’m on a delightful safari some where far away even though I’m in my own backyard. We love visiting all year round but when there are baby animals at the zoo it […]
A clear, cold night in Seattle in the fall is magical all by itself, but visiting Wildlights on a night like this is absolute perfection. Bubbly snow falls softly in some places while in others you might just get pelted by a big furry flake. (It wasn’t just toddlers and wee ones throwing these around-I […]
You’d look like this too if you were a pumpkin in a jaguar enclosure. We love the Pumpkin Bash event at the Woodland Park Zoo every year and we stopped by last rainy weekend to see what’s in store this year. The guys loved the jack-o-lanterns everywhere. And we caught a couple animals enjoying […]
Jaguars can swim. I never would have believed it if I hadn’t seen it at this zoo. We love the Singapore Zoo by the way. And now we know that jaguars can swim and it seemed like they could even smell raw chicken in water from the shore. Each time they dipped underwater they came […]
Seeing this little lemur on Trader Joe’s Cinnamon and Black Tea at Christmas made me all nostalgic and dreamy for our recent Singapore trip and I had to buy it. I love Trader Joe’s holiday products-I have so many whim purchases there at this time of year! A couple months ago we traveled to my […]
This morning there was a short break in the rain that looked like this: So we put on our gumboots and headed to our zoo where the guys have decided that the Hornbill gets their vote in the Quarters for Conservation program but we also really love the penguins at Woodland Park zoo too. We […]
A couple months ago we received our first issue of “Zootles,” a magazine for 2/3 year olds by Zoobooks. This issue was all about turtles and we learned some great facts about these reptiles, for instance the sea turtles like the ones we’ve seen in Hawaii have flippers and can’t put their heads in their […]