This trip started like many of our trips do, with an offhand family suggestion that snowballs quickly. In this case, Lydia discovered that you can get a kids drivers license at Legoland, which suddenly became a necessity. The catch is that it’s only offered to kids under 14 and she Read more
For our honeymoon, we went to the Western Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and Albania), and this year’s Spring Break was around our 15th anniversary, so we started off planning a full repeat of that trip to reminisce and see how much had changed. However, our love of visiting new countries Read more
The four of us had been to the Baltics when the kids were younger but Emily didn’t join us on that trip, and since living in Europe, we’ve been slowly closing country gaps between us all. We decided to not just hit the capital cities like normal and instead see Read more
Well, it turns out that living in Europe means a lot more short weekend trips, which also means it’s harder to keep up with detailed blog posts of our travels. To round-out the year after our two pre-summer trips I did write about, here are the other places we went Read more
So our kids love pasta and parmesan cheese. And I really mean LOVE. They would eat it for every meal if we let them. So for Xmas, we decided to give them a “Pasta Pass” where they could eat as much pasta as they wanted during a trip and we Read more
For some reason, the girls got a week off in February, so of course that meant we had to go exploring Europe! We originally planned to go to Italy but I got spooked when looking at car rentals and they all mentioned snow tires in the mountains, so we pushed Read more
So if you look closely, you’ll notice that the two trip posts I wrote about on here in 2023 actually took place in late 2022, so I haven’t written anything about 2023 yet! And here we are in 2024 already. One thing I didn’t mention in our Spring Break 2022 Read more
This trip was a long time coming! We initially planned it as a roadtrip in the early months of covid, but then state infection levels kept increasing and knocking out states we wanted to visit. We re-planned it twice to go around the worst states, and then ultimately canceled it. Read more
I’m a bit behind on writing up our recent trips. This one was over Thanksgiving week in 2022. We had always talked about doing a big South American trip and it finally all came together. My father-in-law had used a tour company for the first time on a trip to Read more
This trip began as they almost always do — an airfare deal that seemed too good to pass up. This time it was $450 for roundtrip from Chicago to Stockholm. We booked it quickly before the deal was gone and then filled in the rest of the itinerary over the Read more