ANIMAL LOVE

We visit so many zoos and aquariums, we have some serious animal love in this family.

Maui Ocean Center (Wailuku, HI)

May 16, 2011

The cloudy days around this years’ Mother’s Day made me reminisce for the first plane trip we took with the kids when they were 9 months old. We thought that Maui would be a good idea, and that they would love splashing their feet on the beach. They did not really love the ocean or […]

Pana ‘ewa Zoo (Hilo, HI)

May 13, 2011

When we went to the Big Island with our family and the grandparents last August, I needed an excuse to drive an hour or so to Hilo to get this mochi I read about and couldn’t leave Hawaii without trying: . It is from a place called The Two Ladies Kitchen and they are famous […]

San Diego Zoo (San Diego, California)

April 13, 2011

We are a definitely a zoo family, (we frequent our local Woodland Park Zoo at least once a week!) so when we went to San Diego we made sure to spend a couple days at the World Famous San Diego Zoo. We debated whether or not to use our strollers, but I’m so glad we […]

Oranges and a Big Yellow Balloon

March 7, 2011

Getting ready for our San Diego trip we read a Richard Scary Book called “A Day at the Airport” to prep for the airplane. At the end of the book (sorry to wreck it for you) there is something called a “bratwurst balloon” and it makes my guys laugh hysterically. Now, imagine their (my) delight […]

Phoenix Zoo (Phoenix, Arizona)

November 22, 2010

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 […]