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Review of the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg, Virginia

Are you looking for a hotel where everything around you caters to children?  Do you want to stay at a place that you don’t have to leave for the entire trip?  On my recent trip to Colonial Williamsburg, I spent a night at the Great Wolf Lodge Williamsburg, a place that was made with families [...]

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A Sneak Peek at the New Fantasyland at Walt Disney World

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 [...]

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Virginia Beach

5 Things to Do With Kids in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Although I didn’t bring my kids to Virginia Beach during the media trip I took a few weeks ago, Virginia Beach is definitely a very family-friendly place.  I certainly hope that I can take my own children sometime – the flight from Boston is very short and it’s such a wonderful place for families.  While [...]

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Disney's Art of Animation

Disney’s Newest Value Resort – The Art of Animation

After 2 1/2 years of being a Walt Disney World Moms Panelist, I know that there’s some heavy demand for affordable family suites at Walt Disney World.  So, I was thrilled to hear that Disney was opening their newest resort, Disney’s Art of Animation, as a value resort with lots of family suites.  I had [...]

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Kiptopeke State Park

A Visit to Virginia’s Eastern Shore

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 [...]

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A visit to the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center

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. [...]

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A Family Visit to Trail Dust Town in Tucson, AZ

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 [...]

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Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Garden With Kids

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 [...]

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Surprising Our Kids With a Trip to Walt Disney World!

This morning, we surprised our kids with a trip to Walt Disney World.  They thought they were just dropping me off at the airport, but we were all packed and ready to go! Check out the video here: Ready to book? Find hotel deals at Expedia! Don’t forget to sign up for our monthly family [...]

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A Family Visit to the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum

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 [...]

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