FAMILY TRAVELS
Another Hiking Adventure with our kids (Discovery Park, Seattle)
June 9, 2014So many lovely days start off with pancakes and although this past weekend wasn’t a pancake weekend, (I’ll let you know about our fun and wild adventures from this weekend’s trip to Whistler soon enough!) the morning of our hiking adventure in Discovery Park with our kids was and I hope we can repeat this […]
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Dreamiest Cafe in the World (Royal Smushi Cafe, Copenhagen)
June 3, 2014When we travel we seek out coffee shops, even if the kids are in tow and probably mostly BECAUSE the kids are in tow. But it doesn’t mean we have to settle for Starbucks (even though I do love our Seattle chain, it’s crazy how we see it EVERYWHERE and it’s nice to try things […]
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Exploring tidepools with the Seattle Aquarium (for FREE in Seattle!)
June 2, 2014Oh you know I already have some serious love for the Seattle Aquarium and their great kids’ programs, but I just found out about their low tide Beach Naturalist program and my guys and I had so much fun exploring Tidepools with the Seattle Aquarium last week. I didn’t realize how many lovely things lived […]
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Copenhagen, Denmark with kids: a phototease
May 30, 2014Copenhagen was the last leg of an amazing trip and I keep avoiding writing about it because it was my new ABSOLUTE FAVORITE PLACE IN THE WORLD and I fear that my soul thinks that if I write about it, the trip will finally be over, even though we’ve been back for weeks now. […]
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A few coloring resources my little world travelers (and I) can’t live without
May 28, 2014A few months ago I needed my guys to do some independent coloring and for some reason they chose flags, and I didn’t know at the time this would start a whole flag coloring madness in our house but now they’ve started a flag collection and have been coloring like crazy ever since. I […]
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Because I wanted to ride a funicular (Switzerland with kids)
May 23, 2014I think our travel formula has stayed the same since the hubby and I started traveling together back in college. We always look for places based on the time we have, how much it’s going to cost (and what we can afford or want to pay) and some kind of weird or wonderful thing one […]
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Before you take your kid to see the Seattle Gumwall
May 21, 2014Remember, knowledge is enlightenment. I took some friends and their 4-year-old daughter to the market last week after a lovely but busy morning at the zoo. I gave the little one the market prep-talk because my guys always like to know what to expect in their adventures and it’s always hard to be the one […]
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If you haven’t heard of Strasbourg France you might want to especially at Easter (Europe with kids)
May 16, 2014When we planned our “Let’s go to Europe trip” we were just excited that Iceland Air would let us book with a stopover in Iceland on the way to Paris then fly out of Zurich. We chose those places because they sounded neat and their timetables worked with ours. So Strasbourg was no different. I […]
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A love note to Airbnb from a family who used an Airbnb in Paris
May 6, 2014When we visited Paris with our kids, I wanted to re-visit this coffee shop my bestie took me when I went without the kids about a year and a half ago. It had a merry-go-round in front and so many adorable shops and bakeries nearby. So, when I found a nearby apartment on Airbnb, a […]
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First snapshots from France (Paris with kids)
May 2, 2014Sometimes pictures say so much more than words. I’ll get to the details of how we got around in Paris and Strasbourg with the kids soon but I wanted to get these out of my camera: And scrolling through my photostream I realized the difference in traveling to France with my kids versus the […]
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Three days in Iceland (Iceland with kids)
April 30, 2014I don’t know about you, but when I first thought about Iceland, it brought back haunting memories of my over-the-top Bjork phase in tenth grade where I totally thought she was the most amazing music artist EVER and I might have even thought about wearing a swan dress. But with kids, Iceland is the perfect […]
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A bunch of things I’m shopping for on a Monday after a vacation
April 28, 2014We just got back from our whirlwind European trip so you can expect to see a lot of travel posts in the next little bit, but for today, this lovely morning when I’ve been awake since 3am with one energetic, jet-lagged little boy, I’m shopping while the sun rises. And it’s perfect. Isn’t this how […]
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Lining up at The Eiffel Tower and the Paris zoo but not at the Louvre! (Paris with kids)
April 24, 2014Maybe the first thing you should check when you book a holiday is if things are actually going to be open in the place you’re visiting or if things will be super-crowded when you get there. But we didn’t and this wasn’t our first time making this kind of mistake. I was too excited about […]
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When Advertising Works (Iceland with kids)
April 22, 2014Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean I’d finished my magazine, the kids were sleeping and I needed a break from my book. I didn’t really have time for a whole movie so the “Visit Iceland” videos on the airplane entertainment system became very appealing. I watched one on South Iceland, the region we were visiting and […]
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A few first snapshots of our Iceland travels(Iceland with kids)
April 19, 2014We’ve barely left Iceland, but it was such a phenomenally beautiful place, I just wanted to photodump some of my favorites before I give all the details in a few weeks. Iceland with kids is an awesome trip and I would recommend it as a great trip for families-especially if you need a stopover from […]
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Lovely coffee shops and family hotels in Vancouver BC (Vancouver with kids)
April 15, 2014Every time we head to Vancouver the list of places we love grows. It feels like there are always new coffee shops popping up and because we have family and friends that live there we always get good recommendations-the only thing we ever lack is time. And even though we have family in the area, […]
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Eating with kids at Restaurant Week(s) Seattle and playing tourists in our OWN town.
April 11, 2014I usually live for this two week stretch when it’s Restaurant Week(s) in Seattle. There are so many fancy Seattle restaurants to choose from and it is such a great deal for a night out with the hubby. ($28 for a three-course dinner or $15 for a 3-course lunch.) Often the price of just one […]
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In Real Life shopping on a sunny Monday
April 8, 2014It’s not everyday I get to go shopping in real life IN an actual store, but I needed to run some errands this morning and that brought me to Target, which is always a fun exercise. I have loved Target for so long (but hasn’t everyone?) and today I was proud because I didn’t buy […]
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Playdate Seattle is a fun place to play
April 6, 2014I forgot to post this one a couple of weeks ago and I totally need to because my kids really love it-I heard about Playdate Seattle ages ago and I typically hate indoor play-spaces, jumpy gyms and stuff like this so I just kind of ignored its hype when it opened. But then I heard […]
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A restaurant I wish I brought my kids to, one I’m glad I didn’t and my favorite Seattle window
April 2, 2014A few weeks ago we were craving some prata and I remembered a satay restaurant I’d popped into ages ago. The restaurant was actually called Satay and it was pretty empty when we came in and our lunch of prata, tofu satay and mee goreng noodles was definitely tasty and almost reminded me of some […]
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