Author: Terumi
Jiggly pancakes at Beanfish in Uwajimaya Seattle
August 3, 2023It is pretty difficult to find soufflé pancakes in Seattle and we’ve searched the area a lot. We went to Japan in 2019 and managed to get some that were pretty spectacular. (I think we’ve all seen soufflé pancakes on TikTok’s from Japan) When I was doing quarantine in my parent’s basement in Vancouver during […]
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A Skagit Valley Farm Stand Tour you can do in a day from Seattle
August 2, 2023This is a sponsored post for Genuine Skagit Valley to highlight their Farmstand Fresh Campaign-they have a Skagit Valley Farm Stand tour posted on their website too and we visited in late July 2023 for this farm stand tour. My family knows that if there is a farm stand on any drive we do, I […]
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Hana Maui Resort: a peaceful hotel with a perfect pool at the end of the Road to Hana
July 29, 2023I know I just add to the echos of most travelers when I say that Maui holds a special place in our family’s heart. It was our first trip ever by airplane with our kids. And it was the first time I collaborated with a travel partner when we visited nearly 10 years ago. We […]
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Visiting the Nordic Museum in Ballard Seattle with kids (or on your own)
July 24, 2023My kids are at the age where they’re barely considered kids anymore. At 15 years old, they definitely do not order off the kids’ menu and they no longer need to immediately stop for playgrounds when we pass them on our travels. But old habits die hard and I can’t help myself-I keep an eye […]
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Free Seattle Waterfront Shuttle for the summer
July 17, 2023The Seattle Waterfront Shuttle is back. Here is the shuttle route for 2025 and it runs 7 days a week from 10am-8pm and approximately every 15-20 minutes. The shuttle season will run from May 2nd until sometime in fall and each shuttle has about 20 seats and at least two of the three shuttles are […]
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When you find a life size replica Parthenon in Nashville when you least expect it
July 6, 2023It almost felt like we conjured up a Parthenon in Nashville when we visited for midwinter break. We had just booked our trip to Greece and the kids and I had a handful of days to explore Nashville for mid-winter break while my husband was at a conference. We hadn’t done a lot of research […]
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Things to do in Seattle in July
July 3, 2023It’s summertime in Seattle which means a whole different feel to the city than we have from November through May. Summer is one of the best times to be in Seattle and there are a million things to do in Seattle in July and lately it feels like there are a million people here too […]
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Free things to do in Seattle in summer
June 29, 2023Hello Summer, it feels like we’ve waited so long for you and every year you are so fleeting. Summer can also be tres expensive and I’m always looking for fun and free things to do in Seattle and close by. Seattle in summer feels pretty perfect. Free Waterfront Shuttle The Free Seattle Waterfront Shuttle is […]
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A Conrad New York downtown Review from a Seattle family who has also stayed at the Midtown location
June 28, 2023Last year, our then twin-thirteen-year-olds went on their first ever away trip with school to Washington DC and New York and being a little bit overprotective and because it was still kind of during the new covid times my husband and I flew out to meet them. We booked the Conrad Midtown Manhattan with our […]
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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, once again you snuck up on us. And while Seattle schools get out mid-month ish, ready or not World Cup is on its way and it truly doesn’t feel real yet. There are definitely a lot of things to do in June in Seattle-like have you been somewhere to get pictures with lupines? […]
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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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