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Tokyo DisneySea with Little Kids: a 1-Day Itinerary

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| All Things Disney, Travel the World

As soon we decided to start off our Japan Christmas vacation at Tokyo DisneySea, I quickly went into research mode. My plan? To figure out the perfect itinerary for my family. I’ve done this countless times for both Disneyland/DCA and Walt Disney World. I expected to have just as easy of a time sifting through […]

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Universal Studios Hollywood: Itinerary for 2 adults, 1 child rider, and 1 child too short to ride most rides

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| All Things Disney, Travel the World

My family of four (consisting of my husband, myself, a 7-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son) finally took our first vacation in two years. Huzzah! We started off our 6 days of non-stop theme park fun by visiting Universal Studios Hollywood. When trying to plan my trip, I had a hard time finding itinerary examples […]

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How Marriott Bonvoy paid for my suite at the Hilton, gave me $200 in cash, and 90,000 points after I was “walked”

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Have you ever been walked by a Marriott Bonvoy hotel? It’s not as bad as you may think. This summer, my husband and I had big plans. We were going to celebrate our anniversary by a staycation in Marriott’s Laylow in Waikiki. We booked our room far in advance and counted down the days until […]

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Visiting the Byodo-In Temple on O’ahu

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What is the Byodo-In Temple? Byodo-In Temple was built in 1968. It commemorates the 100-year-anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants to the islands of Hawaii. The O’ahu Temple is actually a smaller scale replica of the over-950-year-old Byodo-In Temple located in Uji Japan. This non-practicing Buddhist temple welcomes people of all faiths to visit, meditate, […]

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The time we spent the winter collecting sap thanks to Ambler Farm’s Tap-a-Tree Maple Sugaring Program

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As a kid growing up in Hawaii, I would dream about what it would be like to live in New England. Some ideas were probably pretty spot on, involving kids cheering on the Boston Red Sox while eating hot dogs. Others, like kids hiking in over a foot of snow to collect buckets of sap […]

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My All-Time Favorite Learning Programs

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| At Home Activities, Motherhood

I will never be a room parent, a Girl Scout leader, or anything resembling something crafty. I’m too impatient to be a teacher and too uninterested and/or untalented to make up my own lesson plans or learning programs. Needless to say, distance learning was hard for me. Hard. Even before the pandemic, I was struggling. […]

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Socially Christmas’d – A Drive Through and Drive-in Experience

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Congrats everyone! We’ve made it through to December 2020. Some states are back in lockdown, although fortunately, Hawaii is doing okay comparatively. While the vaccine has just starting to be supplied to the medical community and some extremely at-risk individuals, we will be nowhere near normal by Christmas. So Kani Kanoa Creative and Farmer’s Insurance […]

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Visiting Wet ‘n’ Wild Hawaii during the Coronavirus Pandemic

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If you were to tell me five-months ago (circa July 2020), that I would eventually visit Wet ‘n’ Wild Hawaii not once but twice before the pandemic was over, I would have called you crazy. Not to knock Wet ‘n’ Wild Hawaii, but I just didn’t see how a water park, which by its very […]

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Show Aloha Land: A Holiday Light Show Wonderland

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I am constantly amazed at how organizations and businesses in Hawaii have pivoted and found such creative ways to be there for charities, small businesses, families, and each other while making everyone’s health and safety a top priority. Such is the case with Show Aloha Land, a spectacular light show sponsored by First Hawaiian Bank. […]

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Lost cat found after 47 days: our family’s 2020 miracle

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Today is Thanksgiving in the year 2020. Despite the crazy year, I have so much to be thankful for. But the fact that my cat Sushi is safe, healthy, and at home is perhaps the thing I am most thankful for this year. Because for 47 days that wasn’t the case. For 47 days my […]

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On our commute from #Tokyo to #Kyoto we stopped in #shinyokohama to visit the @ramenmuseum . While the exhibits were pretty cool, and we even walked away with some @ippudo boxes, what really made my family fall in love with this place was the @aodakeuchi make your own ramen classes. And Emma, whom ate her way through Japan one noodle bowl at a time, said this was by far the best bowl of the trip. 🍜
🌎 TeamLab Planets 🪐
🐠 Art Aquarium Museum Ginza 🐠
Thanks for the memories 2022! Bring it 2023 🎉🥳🍾
Here’s a secret I never told anyone before. Before we even left Hawaii, I was preparing myself to be disappointed during our visit to DisneySea. Heralded by many Disney fanatics as the best of the Disney parks based on its thematic set-up, I just kept thinking 2 things: 1) my kids aren’t going to be that interested in the architecture of a theme park (and I doubted I would be either) and 2) it was a park geared to older kids than mine. But how wrong I was! I loved loved loved DisneySea. To steal a line from Disney themselves, it was a whole new world.
And that’s a wrap! After months of practices, 5 days of performance hair and make up (which if you have been following my stories you know how much that stresses me out 🤣), a dress rehearsal, special Thursday performance and 3 sold out shows, @ballethawaii ‘s 2022 Nutcracker season came to a close this past Sunday afternoon. I am so impressed with all the dancers, as well as the employees and volunteers of Ballet Hawaii that made it all possible. I’ve seen this particular show several times from the audience but got a much deeper appreciation for it this year after catching the tiniest glimpse of all that it entails. A hui hou Mr. Nutcracker!

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