London Day 5: Run + Chiswick House + Design Museum + BBQ
[NOTE: The WordPress app is having some issues and sometimes when I publish I see the posts in my RSS feed or in my email (or both) but then I don’t see them on...
Category: Travel
London Days 3 + 4: Tower of London and Brighton
On Thursday night, after Harry Potter, my parents kept the kids and my husband and I went out to dinner with my sister and her partner for my husband’s birthday...
London Day 2: Warner Bros Harry Potter Studios Tour
NOTE: We of course felt a lot of ambivalence about supporting J. K. Rowling properties, and we ultimately decided that we would go because it was a once-in-a-li...
(Older post that never got published) On our way across the pond
We made it to our gate. We’re attempting to carry on our bags but we bought four AirTags in case they get checked (we are the very last row so it seems unlikely...
London Day 1 : National Science Museum + Meeting our Corgi Cousin
Sorry to post that last one many days late. I was sure that had been published but I guess the wifi at SFO wasn’t that great. Or my WordPress app crapped out of...
We made it!
Our flight was fine. The kids did great and I managed myself. Everyone’s TVs worked and we hunkered down for the long haul. My husband slept a fair amount. My d...
No better way to spend a day
Rafting yesterday was super fun. I was so preoccupied with this trip being between two other trips, I ultimately decided to go because I haven’t seen these coll...
Trip recap (plus upcoming trips)
We will be doing a lot of traveling this summer, so I want to revisit what we did well, and not so well, on the last trip. WHAT WE DID WELL We definitely packed...
All the ways COVID can mess up a vacation
I’ve been less stressed out about COVID messing up our summer since we got it in mid-May (though BA.4 and BA.5’s dominance has chipped away at my confidence rec...
Summer 2022
The summer of 2020 we didn’t do much. My son went to a few weeks of camp at our dojo and got into a couple weeks at a near by Rec Center in August. Our da...