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The Ultimate U-Pick Experience This post contains affiliate links. We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring the kids to U-Picktopia. An hour north of Tampa, this farm allows you to pick just about everything if you time it right. Farm visits play a large role in our homeschooling. We like to give the kids …
This post contains affiliate links. Florida has so much to offer in the way of nature and wildlife. Manatee Springs is one of many Florida places that offer the chance to come face to face with new plant and animal life. After several years of touring Europe’s man-made attractions we are embracing our new home …
Visiting the Glazer Children’s Museum in Tampa, Florida This post contains affiliate links. We love a good children’s museum! Although we had nice weather during our visit to Tampa we still found time to visit the Glazer Children’s Museum. (They have a reciprocal membership with the Atlanta Children’s Museum which reduced our visit price.) The …
Hiking & Fossil Hunting in North Yorkshire Boggle Hole stands out in my mind as one of the best places we visited during our three years in Europe. It is one of those places where you can’t help but slow down and just enjoy time with your family. We were charmed by the family hostel …
We cannot resist the chance to ride the rails! While in Canada we opted to use VIA rail to transit between Ottawa and Montreal. VIA Rail offers lots of sales and deals every Tuesday so timing your ticket purchase is important to get the best deal. We recommend you sign up for the VIA Rail …
This post contains affiliate links. There is nowhere better to celebrate winter than in Ottawa, Canada during the Winterlude Festival. This festival highlights winter with a plethora of activities and great food. We didn’t need much convincing to leave Florida in early February to find old man winter. We happily took our friends (Poole it …
This post contains affiliate links. A winter trip to Canada was designed to give us a taste of winter. We got that in spades. Old Man Winter served up a blizzard delaying our trip to Montreal, but giving us even more time with our friends, and fellow blogger, the Poole’s. (Check out Amber’s blog: Poole …
We wanted snow and we got it! We headed up to Canada this February for everyone to get their winter fill. A blizzard hit the city the day before our arrival blanketing the whole city in fresh snow. It was perfect for our Littles who wanted nothing more than to play in the snow. Luckily, …
A few weeks ago some new friends showed up at our door with a box of donuts from Donuts in Paradise. It was a wonderful surprise and before we knew it the box was gone – gobbled up by the six kids and four adults. I made sure to pull the business card off the …
It takes a lot of work to keep Florida’s beaches looking great. Here, in Navarre, FL the monthly Trash Bash, run by the Navarre Sea Turtle Conversation Center, makes beach cleanup fun. Picking up trash is one of the kids’ favorite things to do, so we marked our calendar for January’s cleanup and vowed to …