FAMILY TRAVELS
Hotel Alt Montreal is a great hotel if you go on a trip with one of your besties and their family
April 1, 2024Funny that it’s almost summer and I’m just getting to this post now. And I wish we had time to do a trip like this for summer too as we’ve also been to Disneyland, Vancouver Island and a bunch of other places together over the years but now all of our kids are involved in […]
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Two nights at the British Colonial Nassau in the Bahamas because of a non-stop flight from Seattle
March 9, 2024There used to be days when we would have to get paper airline tickets fedexed by a travel agent and trips needed to be planned months in advance. Nowadays, we can often even cancel our flights hours before a trip. We can book whole itineraries in minutes. And while this is not totally how our […]
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Seattle to Bahamas – a nonstop flight to Nassau I wish we had when my kids were small
February 23, 2024Sunny places in winter is what gets many of us Seattleites through the long dark season. And once you get into the school age zone, these trips often get squished into holiday breaks where you find everyone you know in the city on the same flight to Hawaii. That’s why my ears perked up at […]
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All the Musicals for Broadway in Seattle 2024
February 8, 2024The other morning at pottery class I heard a song that I heard in Ain’t too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations which was our favorite musical last season. And then I got a message in my inbox that the 2024/2025 Broadway in Seattle season was just announced and there are so many […]
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Seattle neighborhoods you need to know about if you come here for a visit
January 18, 2024Before I moved to Seattle over 20 years ago now, I used to live in Vancouver Canada and we would often come to visit Seattle on shopping trips. Most of these adventures took us to downtown Seattle or Northgate or to eat at the Fisherman’s restaurant on the Waterfront. But I didn’t really get to […]
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Family Fun especially on a Thursday in Pioneer Square Seattle
January 12, 2024We’re always passing through Pioneer Square in Seattle, for school, for soccer games, for events at the stadiums so I really appreciated that the Pioneer Square Association invited my family to learn more about the area with a stop at Zeitgeist Coffee: a long-running coffee shop in the area, a Beneath the Streets tour and […]
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Klondike Gold Rush National Park-a National Park in the heart of Seattle
January 5, 2024There were maybe two other people in the Klondike Gold Rush National Park when we visited so we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves. Unlike most National parks, this one in the center of our city is not a traditional outdoor park. This place is more like a visitor center and museum. And […]
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Connections and why you should enroll your kid in a Museum of Flight Summer Camp if you live in Washington state
December 19, 2023You don’t always think that a summer camp might change your life, but in our family we absolutely know it can. My husband and I met years ago when we were camp counselors in college in Canada and it’s one of the reasons why we ended up where we are in Seattle today. But we […]
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Astra Lumina in Seattle on a clear night after Christmas might be a very “worth it” thing to do
December 15, 2023Is it worth it? I always get asked when I go to experiences in Seattle. Seattlelites are very wary about how they use their money and time. And I was a little curious too when I got the invite to Astra Lumina. It’s an immersive outdoor experience in Seattle’s Chinese Garden, a place I had […]
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Calder: In Motion at the Seattle Art Museum
November 13, 2023I always love the story behind the art in our city and if you go to Calder: In Motion at the Seattle Art Museum this exhibition has a really beautiful connection. This exhibition is part of an ongoing gift from the Shirley family to the Seattle Art Museum and it has a goal of helping […]
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A day trip to Bainbridge Island because of soccer
October 15, 2023Maybe your kids will have a sports game at Ballard High School from Seattle one day too or maybe you just need an excuse to visit Bainbridge Island. It’s so incredibly close to Seattle-only a 30 minute ferry ride and it even has a bridge that attaches it to the mainland so you’re less likely […]
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All the farms near Seattle we want to visit in October
October 4, 2023No to a fall bucket list this year-who needs that kind of stress? I just wanted a place to keep notes about some special farms near Seattle we might want to visit this fall. October is such a great season at farms in the Pacific Northwest as they are filled with pumpkins, corn and apples […]
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Things to bring to Seabrook if you are going there for a trip
September 14, 2023We finally made it to Seabrook this year and ended up making it a multigenerational trip this time just like we dreamed about when we first started visiting. My mom, dad, sister and her family rented a house, and our family rented a house and it was a great way to hang out with each […]
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Things you might only know about Seattle if you are a true Seattleite
September 8, 2023Here’s a list to add to the stack of all the other lists that exist about this city but I heard someone (a Seattleite even!) say Pike’s Place market again recently and I couldn’t just write a post about that without sounding too angry Seattle so I thought I better write this post instead. So […]
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What to expect from tours at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle
September 1, 2023My family seems to have entered an architectural era of travel where we purposely visit towers and buildings like the Space Needle the CN tower, or maybe the Rookery in Chicago to check out the views of a city, and even in our own city, and learn a bit about the history of a place. […]
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If you love Italy, you’ll want to know about Dalla Fonte, a subscription box that will bring Italy to you
August 31, 2023This is a sponsored post on behalf of Dalla Fonte, an Italy subscription box based in Washington State that brings a bit of Italy to your home and as always the thoughts and writing in this blog are always my own. How many times do we think about special places we’ve been to and want […]
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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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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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