Author: Terumi
Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Free in New York thanks to the Seattle Art Museum
June 20, 2023My 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 […]
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When your kids choose the Guinness Storehouse over seeing the book of Kells in Ireland and you really don’t blame them
June 15, 2023I don’t know about you but sometimes when we travel we get a bit museumed out. We can only see so many things in a short period of time before all the sites start to overwhelm our brains. So when we were on a 5 day trip to Ireland I gave my kids the choice […]
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Staying at the Athenian Residences in Athens for the first part of our trip from Seattle to Greece with our teens in April
June 14, 2023A trip to Greece was one of my family’s dream trips and we finally made it happen this year. It’s a place that does not have a direct flight from Seattle so it is a more difficult type of place to plan a trip from where we live especially if it’s a trip where time […]
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All about how youth ride buses, ferries and light rail for free in Seattle with the ORCA card
June 9, 2023I recently worked on an instagram campaign with King Country metro where I learned that Washington State is the first state in the USA where youth can ride free until their 19th birthday. Since late 2022, thanks to Move Ahead Washington which is a statewide transportation funding package, transit is free for riders 18 and […]
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All the Seattle places we like to visit from May to maybe October
June 5, 2023Why on earth is this Seattle list only for May to October? Is it the weather? Is it school holidays? Or is it because this is the time when all the cruise ships come to our city? From May to October in Seattle, our city feels like we get a little more packed. And I […]
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How to bike ride all over New York City for $15 a day with Citi Bike and the Lyft app
I always thought New York City was a walking city. “We walked 25000″ steps a day!” people always say when you ask them how their NYC trips went. So after our last trip, using a Citi Bike Daypass and the Lift app, we definitely still got in nearly 25000 steps a day but we also […]
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Nashville Chocolate Factories you might want to visit if you love seeing how chocolate is made
June 4, 2023Somehow we’ve made chocolate touring part of our daily adventures and travels. In Seattle we are lucky enough to have at least a handful of incredible chocolate factories near enough to visit. And we’ve looked for chocolate factories in Ireland, in Hawaii (it seems like every coffee farm in Hawaii is growing chocolate now!) and […]
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Things to do in Seattle in June
May 31, 2023Hello June, have we really have made it here this year? Seattle schools gets out near the end of the month and it truly doesn’t feel real yet after the last few soggy days. There are definitely a lot of things things to do in June in Seattle though (like have you been somewhere to […]
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A Nashville hot chicken tour with my twin teenagers for mid-winter break
Timing and life doesn’t always give you what you want, and my husband had a work conference during our mid-winter break in Nashville. Nashville?!! My twin teenagers were not the most enthusiastic about this trip. Being from Seattle, February usually has us dreaming of somewhere warm like Hawaii. And mid-winter break can be a longer […]
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Seattle coffee shops and neighborhoods I explored with the new Toyota BZ4X
May 24, 2023I was loaned a Toyota BZ4X for the week for the purpose of this review and as always everything in this post and the opinions here are my own I had no idea that Toyota had an electric SUV so when I got a message asking if I wanted to try driving one in Seattle […]
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A 10 day family Greece trip Itinerary from Seattle with teenagers
May 22, 2023I wish I could take more credit for this itinerary but I planned very little of this 10 day Greece trip. I didn’t think I’d actually get to go because I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease at the end of last year and I’ve been undergoing treatments. So I didn’t want to plan […]
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Vancouver, Canada and the Places we Like to Go to when we visit
May 17, 2023I keep getting asked for where we like to go in Vancouver Canada, and I have old lists for Vancouver with kids and Vancouver with my dog, but I realized recently that I didn’t have a centralized list, so this is where I’m going to put the places we like to go and things we […]
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Almost 10 very PNW books you might want to read this summer
May 12, 2023(this list of pnw books contains affiliate links to a site that supports local bookstores) I often read books with a sense of place before I go on a trip, so here are a few that feel very Pacific Northwest if you are visiting the area or even if this is where you call home. […]
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Essential Baking Company, perhaps the most historical bread starter in Seattle?
May 10, 2023A few months ago I posted a couple of my frequent Costco purchases in my Instagram Stories. For the cabin I always purchase this Essential Baking Company bread because it lasts FOREVER in your cupboard and when you want fresh bread immediately you bake it in the oven for about 15 minutes and it turns […]
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Camano Commons and other delicious places to find food on Camano Island
May 5, 2023Camano Island is so close to Seattle it can be a day trip, I’ve been telling everyone since we went there a few weeks ago. But I don’t know if this is entirely truthful. Yes, Camano Island is barely just over an hour from Seattle but if you want to try all the delicious foods […]
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Things to do In Seattle in May
May 1, 2023So here are a few things to do in May in Seattle: Studio Tours on Camano Island for Mother’s Day weekend If mom or you loves art, Camano Island is only about an hour’s drive away from Seattle. The Open Studio tour weekend has been happening for 24 years and this year you can stop […]
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A mom and me (and pup) trip to Camano Island and an idea for Mother’s Day weekend
April 24, 2023Not much more than an hour’s drive north of Seattle you can get to a place that feels worlds away. My mom and I recently met midway between Vancouver BC (where she lives) and Seattle, WA (where I live) on Camano Island for a mom and me adventure for an early Mother’s Day celebration. My […]
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A bunny cafe in Vancouver BC worth the drive from Seattle
April 22, 2023Are you somebunny who loves little rabbits? We actually didn’t try the coffee in this cafe, but I took my niece and nephew to the Bunny Cafe in Vancouver BC and there were bunnies galore. The Bunny Cafe is on Commercial drive, a vibrant street full of shops and cafes and I found it when […]
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The best bathroom in the world is at the Nashville Zoo
April 8, 2023Try 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 […]
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Book an Atrium room at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville and you might just feel like you’re in Jurassic Park
April 5, 2023I’m not always a fan of conference hotels. They tend to feel dormish or sterile. And because we travel a lot, I’ve found that my family now spends more time in our hotel rooms than we used to so where we stay has become a lot more important. When I found out we would be […]
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