FAMILY TRAVELS
So much rain on all the Mondays in October
November 1, 2016Apparently October was the rainiest month ever in Seattle. We have had so much rain that I’ve started to carry an umbrella around in my car! The other day at the grocery store I saw someone put a ziplock bag over their hair because it started to suddenly pour. But thankfully tonight on Halloween night we […]
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National Football Museum (Manchester, England)
October 28, 2016As a teenager when I dreamed of my future trip to Europe, the National Football Museum was not on my list of places I wanted to see. I wouldn’t have known that football in England means soccer in the USA and I probably wouldn’t have cared about soccer here either. Fastforward to my real life; my […]
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A fabulous place where you can use your 4×4 vehicle on the Washington Coast (Iron Springs Resort, WA)
October 23, 2016I don’t have my own 4×4 but I totally wish I had one. Specifically, I would like a Toyota 4 Runner and right now I would love it in the color Quicksand. (I had to look up this color because I call this color “Star Wars” but that is not it’s real name and I […]
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Back to Pike Place Market! Lowells Restaurant for the First and Second Time (Seattle, WA)
October 19, 2016Some time last year I started on a 52 weeks of Pike Place Market eating project. I’m sure I’ve been to the market more than 52 times since then, but I’m not one for rules and I do love eating at some of the same places more than once in a year. So this project is […]
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Discount code and win tix for a Seattle-Area Minecraft Event From Super League next week
October 15, 2016I am not always a huge fan of video games. I don’t want my guys holed up in a dark room for hours playing in a fantasy world all alone. But for my 8 year old boys, video games are all they talk about. It’s like they live and breathe video games and if I […]
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When you miss a chocolate factory and find a mill with famous roots instead (Sarhole Mill, England)
October 14, 2016Maybe it was all that Mr. Rogers I watched as a kid, with his soothing voice and his magic picture frame that showed where everything in the world came from. Crayons. Macaroni. Candles. He knew it all. And now I’m more than a little addicted to finding out where and how everything is made and I […]
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Time to get Thankful on a Monday
October 4, 2016How are you this whirlwind Monday? Can you believe it’s October already? For my family, this means it’s time to think about our first Thanksgiving of the year. We celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in the second week of October and then American Thanksgiving in November. Thanksgiving is such a nice holiday to be able to celebrate twice. When things […]
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Not-serve-yourself-pastries and almost losing my kid in Edinburgh
September 28, 2016First of all we did not have enough time in Edinburgh when we visited. I’m almost certain that people LIVING in Edinburgh don’t have enough time in Edinburgh. It is such an interestingly beautiful place that we’re chasing memories of it like we did with Iceland since we’ve been home; pointing out fields of cows […]
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Back to Pike Place Market: a salmon sandwich to talk about at Market Grill
September 22, 2016Who would have thought 52 weeks could take more than a year? I’m SLOWLY eating my way through Pike Place Market and as much as I’m trying to eat at new places I can’t help but get hung up on some that I love. (Like Delaurenti. It is SO hard to come to the market […]
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Looking for easy meals on a Monday
September 20, 2016How is it Monday again, already? Did your weekend fly by in a blur? With all the soccer games and parties and adventures sometimes Monday just hits me like those anvils that would flatten Tom in the old Tom and Jerry cartoons. But thankfully, I’m eating cold pizza thanks to Stefan Frei (a phemonal flying […]
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The World of Wedgwood, Free Roaming Monkeys and a lovely pottery town near London (Stoke-on-Trent)
September 15, 2016Take note of this name if you ever dream of England: Stoke-on-Trent. This amazing area known as “The Potteries” is where you might find the birthplace of some of the very dishes in your cupboards at home. We happened to be driving through on our recent trip to England and we needed a place to […]
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Why Changi airport in Singapore is best for families
September 10, 2016Heaven forbid that any of us ever get stuck in an airport when we’re traveling with kids. Do you remember that movie where Tom Hanks go stuck in one? This used to be my biggest nightmare when I traveled with two babies in tow-how would we ever survive? And thankfully it only happened a few […]
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The time I drove a Ferrari in Tacoma
September 3, 2016A few months ago, the family and I visited Tacoma for a weekend and had a fantastic time. Although this city is only about an hour’s drive from Seattle there is so much to do that a weekend’s visit there felt like a perfect northwest ‘Staycation’ holiday. We really enjoyed visiting the Tacoma Art Museum […]
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A Pinterest Playground I traveled thousands of miles to see that is no more (Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan)
August 12, 2016This past year has been a whirlwind of travel and the trips I’ve planned have been done in more of a fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants fashion where we only a pick a few must-sees in an area and then let the rest of the trip happen somewhat organically. I’ve noticed this works well for travel with my family […]
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When you just need to head out of town on a Monday
August 1, 2016Summer is for lazy days and getaways and someday soon we’ll be jetting off out of town on a last-minute family adventure and I’m pretty excited to share the destination with you but we’ll get to that later because you’ll probably be more interested in the amazing travel kicks I bought for the trip at the […]
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One foodie cafe in Hong Kong I’m not sure I should have brought the kids to and one in Tokyo that I’m really glad I did
July 28, 2016Family travel is always unpredictable and some of our favorite trip memories come from times when things don’t go as we expected. On a recent trip to Asia I was really excited about all the fun restaurants we’d get to see! I was really intrigued about one called Dim Sum Icon, a cafe that I saw on […]
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Dinosaurs and All the Foods at Richmond Night Market
July 16, 2016When people ask me about what to see in my hometown Vancouver, BC the first thing I always think about is the food. Vancouverites love food and there are so many fabulously interesting things to eat there that it is hard to choose what and where to eat. We love so many Vancouver restaurants but […]
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Build your Own Tomica Cars in Tokyo Japan, a perfect stop for families on a trip to Japan
July 13, 2016In another life, the only car I could have reliably named on the road was a Volkswagon Beetle but my husband has managed to pass on his passion for vehicles down to the next generation and now if I DON’T know the cars around me, I’d be totally outnumbered in the family. So I try […]
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Unexpected Chickens on an electric drive down the Chuckanut
July 6, 2016Windy turns and hidden bakeries, scenic pull-outs and switchbacks reminiscent of the old Sea-to-Sky highway from Vancouver to Whistler are all reason to drive the Chuckanut Route that hugs the coast from Mt Vernon to Bellingham for about a 30 minute drive. With small kids and family up north, we were always in a rush […]
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The summer travels of our new favorite blanket
As a blogger, I’m always on the hunt for fun new products and it makes my life a zillion times easier when something fabulous literally ends up in my lap. Enter the Rumpl blanket, a downy soft sleeping-bag-like blanket I was sent to review. At first I imagined it would be the perfect cabin blanket […]
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