If you saw my previous post, The 5 Best Places to See California’s Giant Redwoods and Giant Sequoias, you already have a good idea of just how much our family loves to visit the big trees found along the West Coast. It was fun to stumble upon this Hawaiian variety on our recent trip to Maui, when…
FAMILY-FRIENDLY SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO: With so many fun things to do in San Juan with kids, only a week to explore the city and a need to hit the beach every day, we had to narrow down our excursions. Whether you’re looking for fun things to do in Puerto Rico with a baby, a…
As you can probably imagine, I had A LOT of fun taking pictures at the Maui Ocean Center. With the light streaming in from above and my son watching sharks and rays pass above, I took several as he stood mesmerized right here in the fabulous “shark tunnel.” If you missed my reveiw of “The…
HAWAII, The Maui Ocean Center with Kids – I don’t care how many days you have on Maui, I know it may be hard to imagine spending part of any one of them off of the beach, out of the pool, or away from the water falls—unless your visit turns wet, of course. Rain or shine, however,…
Has this happened to you? After a 5+ hour flight from the mainland, we arrived on Maui at only 9:30 a.m. We weren’t guaranteed check-in at our first accommodations until 3 p.m. And we were, to be certain, fully saddled with all of our gear and feeling more than a little punchy. As I mentioned…
It was one of those humbling days – what? You think I’m exempt? I thrive on adventure and change and novelty while, well, some others in my brood could be content sitting behind a device developing the world’s best dinosaur park on a screen no bigger than a Belgian waffle. Personally, I have no problem…