Family Travel Magazine

As you’ve probably guessed, I love traveling to Walt Disney World, and I’ve stayed at most of the deluxe and moderate hotels throughout the resort.  Recently, my family’s favorite resort has been Disney’s Beach Club Resort, but surprisingly, we’d never stayed at its sister resort, Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, until this year’s Disney Social Media [...]

I’ve heard so much about Colonial Williamsburg, VA,  but it’s not a place I’ve ever visited.  On the Virginia Media Tour I attended several weeks ago, we had the chance to spend a short amount of time touring Colonial Williamsburg.  While I didn’t have a very long time to check things out, one thing I [...]

Can a fine arts museum filled with gorgeous (and fragile) glass artwork be kid-friendly?  That’s what I wondered when we visited the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia during the Virginia media tour I attended a few weeks ago. Our tour guide, a former teacher, assured me that the museum is very kid-friendly.  On most days, [...]

You may know that Disney has embarked on their largest Magic Kingdom renovation/expansion ever – the multi-year Fantasyland expansion.  While at the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration, I had the opportunity to get a sneak peek of the expansion with one of the Disney imagineers. The first section of the expansion, Storybook Circus, has already [...]

During my media trip to Virginia, we spend a morning on Virginia’s Eastern Shore – a place I hadn’t really heard much about before.  We headed out on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel – one of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World.  Although the Bridge Tunnel is 20-miles long, we stopped “on” the [...]

On my recent trip to Virginia for the Beach Front Family Fun and Food Media Tour, our first stop was to the Virginia Aquarium.  I’ve been to quite a few aquariums before, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.  But after our short tour, I’m convinced this is the nicest aquarium I’ve been to. [...]

While my kids absolutely loved our family vacation to Phoenix, it was more pool and baseball than desert and old west.  So, when we went to Tucson, I wanted to make sure they got some of that old west experience.  On our day there, we visited the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum in the morning, and headed [...]

During our family vacation to the Greater Phoenix area, we stopped at the Desert Botanical Garden, which is located right next door to the Phoenix Zoo.  The Botanical Gardens features 145 acres, including 65 acres under cultivation with gorgeous dessert plant life.  As an amateur photographer, I really enjoyed my visit last year, but I [...]

During our family vacation to Phoenix and Tucson, my kids really loved seeing the desert.  They were fascinated by the cacti, the mountains, and the animals (my daughter and I even saw an owl on the top of our casita at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess).  So, when we had to choose one attraction to visit [...]

The 2012 Virginia Arts Festival, featuring music, dance, theater, and more has already started.  The festival will run through June, when Al Pacino makes his appearance at the Chrysler Hall in Norfolk.  Other features include an evening with Jane Krakowski (on May 27th), the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra (on May 25th), and Gallim Dance (on May [...]