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Our 1-Day Planned Disney’s Animal Kingdom Itinerary for Families And How It Worked For Us

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My family of four (including a very tall 8-year-old and 3-year-old) spent our spring break in Walt Disney World (“WDW”) and planned to hit up every major (and minor) ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in one day. Below is my family’s itinerary: the good, the bad, and what I would have done differently. Some things […]

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Our 1-Day Planned EPCOT Itinerary For Families And How It Worked For Us

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My family of four (including a not-yet-42-inches-tall 3-year-old) spent our spring break in Walt Disney World (“WDW”) and planned to hit up every major (and minor) ride over 1 day at EPCOT. Below is my family’s itinerary: the good, the bad, and what I would have done differently. Some things to note My family traveled […]

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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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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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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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18 Aulani Tips: Pandemic Edition

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Here are my tips, tricks, and advice for having the best time at Disney’s Aulani, even during a pandemic. Aulani Tip #1. Go on a Weekday I cannot stress this one enough. My family checked into Aulani on Friday morning and left on Wednesday afternoon. The experience between staying at Aulani on a weekend versus […]

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Volcano Artist Cottage, located on the grounds of the @volcanogardenarts and @cafeonovolcano was a cozy house in the midst of a magical place full of secret gardens to explore and less than 10 minutes from Hawaii Volcano National Park.
Day trip up to Whitefish from Polson during our summer vacation to Flathead Lake, Montana. I loved that they had both chair and gondola lifts (and a lift for bikes as well).
A breakdown of our 1-day at Disney’s Animal Kingdom during Spring Break.
1 Day at EPCOT during Spring Break.
I’m not even the biggest Star Wars fan… but Galaxy’s Edge may be my favorite land in any of the Disney parks. Here’s how we rope dropped DHS during spring break (note: on the day we went, the park opened at 8:30 AM to the public and 8:00 AM to on-property guests).
So… I did a thing…. ⬆️

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