• Welcome to New York! – by Mara

    Welcome to New York!!!! For my birthday I wanted to go to New York City so we drove up on Friday and stayed till Sunday. It was a five hour drive each way but it was worth the drive! One of the things I wanted to do in New York…

  • Cruising to Mexico

    We’d promised the kids we’d take them on a cruise some day especially since we used to see the cruise ship every Wednesday in Kona harbor.  However, Mara (and even Beckett) get sea sick on boats (as do I) so we were little nervous about how they would do.  Enter…

  • 3 Days of Wine and Wandering in Sonoma & Napa

    Despite our travels in 2013 and 2014, we hadn’t had an adults-only vacation for about 2 years.  Luckily Chuck’s mom Carla came to the rescue, and flew down to babysit the kids while we went to Sonoma and Napa for 4 nights. Our first night was spent with Chuck’s friend…

  • Taco Tuesday in Mexico

    Our rental house in San Diego was only 30 minutes from the Mexican border so it seemed like the perfect day trip to another country.  The kids had also never been to Mexico and so a road trip was born. It was an easy drive to the border and crossing…