Photo Fave: Hiking Kilauea Iki Crater, Volcanoes National Park – pregnant
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Big island, big belly, big hike? Time for a big shave ice. |
All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
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Big island, big belly, big hike? Time for a big shave ice. |
All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
It was a little awkward coming face to face with the celebrated mummies of the British Museum – with three young children. Until then, death had been easy to talk about in abstract, philosophical, and even flowery terms. But here at the British Museum, it was laid out on display in all its ancient bandaged…
Just last week while exploring Kauai’s most kid-friendly beaches, my hubby and I had to marvel how well this pop-up sun tent has traveled and served our family (we’ve actually brought it to Thailand and Mexico, among other places)—and how we’d definitely recommend bringing one to any family visiting Kauai with young children. Sure, expecting…
The Aloha juice and smoothie truck at Hanalei, Kauai. Sometimes you can search all day in vain for a little local color. Other times, you may find it parked smack dab in the middle of a parking lot. Here, at the Aloha Juice Bar (on wheels!), we found a veritable rainbow of refreshment options–mango-banana-pineapple smoothies and…
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A room with a great night view at the Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles. Believe it or not, just days after we’d finished what was to be the last road trip of the summer, where I subjected my young children to 7 hours of driving on the final day, but it being well worth it (come…