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…
We’ve been itching to travel internationally since the start of COVID, having planned and begrudgingly canceled at least five other trips abroad in the last two years. While restrictions are loosening up, our vaccination cards aren’t approved for travel in Europe, so we thought for sure one of us would Read more…
For the holidays last month, we were planning to go to Memphis for my in-laws 50th anniversary, and then stay down there through Christmas. Upon our return to Chicago, we scored super cheap tickets to Tokyo over New Years and had a weeklong trip planned around Japan. Of course, COVID Read more…
After our summer workcation to Colorado and Utah where we visited three National Parks, we became obsessed with seeking out more parks to visit. Our obsession came at a great time too because our oldest daughter just entered 4th grade where you get free entry to all national parks for Read more…
As long-term readers know, we go to Maine to visit relatives every other year. We were afraid covid would get in the way of this trip as it had so many others, but luckily everything went according to plan. In 2019, we invited a close friend on the trip, and Read more…