International Travel
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Euro(Road)Trip: Antwerp
While visiting Amsterdam, we wanted to venture over to Belgium for a quick day trip. Before out trip, we asked a number of people which Belgian city would be the best to visit with young kids. Although we were most familiar with Brussels, the overwhelming consensus was to visit either Antwerp or Bruges. After doing…
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Euro(Road)Trip: Amsterdam
We wouldn’t be the Oliver family if we didn’t set our sights high and aim for not only visiting one country, but five countries over the course of two weeks. As is standard these days, our initial research for our next vacation consisted of searching for “best destinations to visit with young kids”. To our…
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Kimonos in Kyoto
Nara, Japan From Osaka, we took the train down to Nara to see the free-roaming deer for a few hours. Since we had our suitcases with us, we stored our bags in several storage lockers at the Nara train station and then walked over to the deer park. When you first enter the park, there…
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Owls in Osaka
After a rainy day at Universal Studios Japan, we woke up the next morning with the goal of exploring more of the city. The first order of business was to visit Kids Plaza Osaka which is a children’s museum in Osaka City Kita Ward. We spent several hours playing in the exhibit with the tube…
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A Universal-ly Good Time at Universal Studios Osaka
After our visit to Tokyo and Seoul, we flew to Osaka. Once in Osaka, we located the airport transfer we booked through Klook and departed for The Singulari Hotel & SkySpa at Universal Studios Japan. Since we had already had a long day exploring the bamboo forest and monkey park in Seoul, as well as hours of travel…
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Aruba Alegria
The time has come. Our oldest daughter is now in public school which means we are now, officially, locked into the district school schedule. No more “cheap”-er, less touristy, offseason vacations in the foreseeable future. Cue tears. All jokes aside, being forced into taking holidays when everyone else does also led us to spending New…
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Way Down in Kokomo (Beach, Curaçao)
In all honesty, we had never really thought about visiting Curaçao until we had planned a trip to Aruba. However, we’re glad we did because it became one of our favorite islands in the Caribbean! ♬♪ Ooh, I wanna take you down to KokomoWe’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slowThat’s where we…
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Arigatou Gozaimasu, Tokyo
It was time. It was time for our family to venture out past our typical holidays to Central America, North America, and Europe. This time, our sights were set on Asia, specifically Japan and South Korea. Day 1 Last day of school was May 23 and we were on a plane to Japan the following…
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Tackling Tokyo Disney
In June 2025, we decided we were “going to try to make Disney work” during our trip to Tokyo. Prior to our trip, we reached out to some friends and neighbors that are Disney travel agents. However, we quickly found that they couldn’t book any Disney packages for us because Tokyo Disney is not actually…
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Korea with Kids
When we were scoping out cities to travel to in Asia with our young kids, Seoul was consistently coming up in search results as one of the top locations to travel to. A quick flight from Tokyo and Osaka, Seoul ended up being the perfect addition to our trip in late May/early June. When we…
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