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Disney World

We’ve successfully completed our mission to Disney World. Four days of fun and rugged luxury, rides, food, snacks and hopefully good memories that will last a lifetime.

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Trip to New Orleans for Racquel and Dustin’s Wedding

We survived the jet lag, the heat and humidity and a multi-day house share with family. Great time with Racquel, Dustin and the rest of the gang in New Orleans.

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Le Paris

We had a whirlwind trip to Paris – it was wonderful. Here are a few memories from our time there.

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Corfu, Greece

We spent Easter 2018 in Corfu, Greece. This was our first family adventure to Greece – Corfu is the closest Greek island/shortest flight from England, so that seemed like a good place to start. The island was relatively quiet as it was off-season but we enjoyed our lovely holiday home, beautiful scenery and tasty food.

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The year that was 2017

A staggering amount of time has passed since my last post on this website – more than two years on the calendar, and seemingly much more than that in terms of the life we’ve lived and the changes that have occurred in that time.

Enjoying some snow and sledding in Switzerland

First, a relatively quick highlight reel of some of our fondest memories of 2017.

If you’re a more dedicated follower (hi grandparents!), please read on and watch the overly-indulgent 10-minute video at the end of this post.

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Christmas 2017 in Lucerne, Switzerland

Why spend Christmas in London when Switzerland is just a short flight away? This year we headed to Lucerne, a beautiful city in the Swiss interior.

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Southern Portugal

We’ve now taken our first family trip in Europe, flying to southern Portugal for a bit of wintertime sun. Definitely not summertime warmth but still a nice break from English winter.

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Seattle Wrap-Up

A few days have passed since we returned home from Seattle. Time marches on quickly, but we’re trying to hold onto some of the good memories from the trip. The weather cooperated, we were able to connect with a number of relocated friends and get their Midwestern take on the Pacific Northwest. We didn’t get the sense that any of them were planning to leave any time soon – and it was easy to understand why.

As previous posts have shown, we hit a number of the top tourist spots – the Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, the ferry to Bainbridge Island, the Aquarium and even Ray’s. We (particularly James) enjoyed the various playgrounds that we found (Green Lake Park, Maple Leaf Park, Bainbridge Island and even at REI). I enjoyed seeing the surprisingly massive Mount Rainier looming in the distance when the skies were clear. I headed over the Redmond to visit the Microsoft campus – not surprisingly, it left me a bit confused and disappointed, much like most of their products. Our rental home was very good, which helped set us up for an enjoyable time – it was stocked with toys for James and kitchen gear for the adults – the location was very convenient. A good portion of the trip was spent just enjoying some quiet time, always important in our not-so-quiet lives with young’uns. Our massive GMC Acadia did the trick to get us around town, up and over the abundant hills and through the uncomfortably narrow streets that more often than not were the opposite of perpendicular … making it easy for us out-of-towners to get lost, even with GPS. When the time came to return to the airport, the Acadia’s girth helped inspire some confidence during a downpour in heavy early morning traffic.

We ate well, played lots, got a reasonable amount of sleep, and felt like we were going home too early. I don’t think that we could have really asked for much more than that.

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Seattle Playgrounds

James had fun exploring a number of different playgrounds throughout our trip – swings are swings and slides are slides, but that didn’t slow down our little boy. Lots of big smiles all around.

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A Smiling in Seattle Moment with Luke

Michele and Luke enjoying a nice moment together during our time in Seattle.

https://youtu.be/SIAMl6eOTzQ