While the boys had their age appropriate moments of poor behavior on the trip, Symone wins the worst traveler award. With only one day left I’m not sure how she can Unwin that award. Her teen world falls into two categories: about me, not about me. Traveling with a person with only those two settingsContinue reading “Travel with Teen: Salt Lake”
Category Archives: Travel with Kids
High Desert Museum
While half our party was monitoring the double-ended blowout the other half made a quick stop at the High Desert Museum to see lizards, turtles and have a somewhat confrontational visit with a historic reenactor in the pioneer cabin. Afterward we sucked in any possible germs carried on our bodies from exposure to Emmett andContinue reading “High Desert Museum”
Barfing in Bend
We had a wedding to attend in Bend and since Oscar was just beginning his transition plan to his new family we were up for a distraction. We piled everyone in the car for the four hour drive to a mystery VRBO in Bend. The car trip involved a lot of “dying” of various thingsContinue reading “Barfing in Bend”
The reality of the new road kill laws
When we got off the plane I found that my vaguely sore throat had become a volcano of burning fire that had crept into my ears. Kaety wanted to stop in Albany to do a little late Black Friday shopping for the Foster Kids Association. While she did that I opted for a visit toContinue reading “The reality of the new road kill laws”
We are joining the church of SkyCap
The process of departing started the night before. As we feared we had gathered more things than we had come with and neglected to bring a duffle bag. To be totally clear Kaety had suggested that we bring an extra suitcase – I had glanced at the mountain we already had amassed and gave theContinue reading “We are joining the church of SkyCap”
Love!
Love! Love! The Beatles. Cirque Du Soleil. We split up – Grammy and Kaety went one night and Symone and I went to the next nights show. Symone had little to no idea who the Beatles were – which gave us all pause. We weren’t sure if it was the natural evolution of the nextContinue reading “Love!”
Real life with Uber
Great experience with our Uber driver on the way to the Love Beatles show. An Iraqi immigrant who had worked with US Troops as a translator – great guy. Good life vibe and very circumspect about the Mandalay Bay shooting. He said, “It was a terrible event. It happened everyday in my country. I’m soContinue reading “Real life with Uber”
The Thanksgiving miracle
After several memorable/traumatic buffet outings we were getting a bit twitchy thinking about going to a Thanksgiving buffet with all the kids. I started asking every local I could get my hands on for a buffet recommendation that was non-smoking, would tolerate flopping and crying and was affordable. The unanimous answer was Excalibur! We headedContinue reading “The Thanksgiving miracle”
Desperate strollering
The cone of silence did not work. He took the cone, threw it on the ground and used it to climb to new levels of hysteria. Kaety crashed in the boy’s room while they were next door at Grammy’s and I took the baby out for a long walk in the stroller hoping he’d fallContinue reading “Desperate strollering”
Happy Thanksgiving…?
Last night was horrible. Oscar has had trouble sleeping in the hotel room and was coming down with a cold which coalesced into the perfect storm at 3 am. He was awake, he wasn’t happy and he had some weird crazy energy fueling him. We were up with him trying to get him back toContinue reading “Happy Thanksgiving…?”