Two Kids and a Map

Today I am dreaming about summer vacation.  My son has NINE days of school left.  Count ‘em with me…Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday…NINE.  Nine days of Kindergarten left.  The first school year will be tucked tightly under his belt and we will have survived having to get into a routine, a daily schedule [...]

Tags: family travel, Monday Dreaming

What is it?  Part zoo, part children’s museum, part educational museum, part aquarium.  The Virginia Living Museum is possibly one of the best museums I have been to in a long time.  It is educational and kid-friendly but at the same time it will captivate adults for hours as well.  The building is set up so [...]

Tags: family travel, Newport News, Suffolk, Virginia, Virginia Beach

For Travel Blogger Tuesday this week, I am going to share with you this amazing project launch that I was lucky enough to be a part of.  If you obsessively read travel blogs like I do (or just read a few favorites!), you might remember a blog tag by Tripbase that was going around for the past [...]

Tags: family travel, Travel Blogger Tuesday

Ok…I am a slacker.  I haven’t posted a Travel Blogger Tuesday in several weeks.  We will try again, but I am letting myself off the hook.  I will post Travel Blogger Tuesday as often as I can but I am not going to stress!!  I probably would have skipped another week but I just have [...]

Tags: family travel, Travel Blogger Tuesday

Three times.  That is the number of times I have traveled to Orlando and visited Disney since the Characters in Flight balloon ride opened up.
Three times.  That is the number of times I have tried to fulfill a dream of mine and get in a hot air balloon again.  Albeit, oversized, tethered and not really [...]

Tags: family travel

My 3 year old daughter can spy a carousel a mile away.  Before the carousel is even in sight, it is like she has a 6th sense…the carousel sense.  She can hear that distinct sound that immediately makes you think of carousels.  She can see the beautifully painted “horsies” spinning around in a circle.  We [...]

Tags: Disney, family travel, Panama City Beach, Virginia Beach, Washington DC

Poseidon is angry. 

Whenever I see the ocean looking grumpy like this, it always makes me think of my favorite piece of literature, The Odyssey.  In the Odyssey, Odysseus maims Polyphemos, the cyclop and son of Poseidon.  This angers Poseidon and he makes Odysseus’ return home a long and difficult journey.  These waves might not look [...]

Tags: family travel, Florida, Monday Dreaming, Pensacola

So much for the House of Mouse.  We are all geared up to make a trip to Orlando and Big S has to go break his collar bone!!!  This week, my little man fell and broke his collar bone.  We are still making the trip to Orlando for other reasons, but we have to significantly [...]

Tags: family travel, Florida, Orlando

When my husband and I were still dating, he took me to Panama City to see his stomping grounds.  One of the things that I remember most about that trip was running through the Gran Maze at Coconut Creek Family Fun Center like teenagers…heck…we were barely in our twenties at this point!  Now that our kids are [...]

Tags: family travel, Panama City Beach, Photo Friday

I have finally created a Blogroll!!!  I have so many blogs that I love to read but just haven’t gotten around to creating the blogroll.  I had wanted to wait until I updated my blog look but have decided that isn’t going to happen anytime soon!  So for Travel Blogger Tuesday this week, I give [...]

Tags: family travel, Travel Blogger Tuesday