International Travel
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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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Danke schön, Bavaria
When we returned home from Europe last summer, we decided we wanted our next big trip to be a trip back across the pond. We started our research and found Germany is one of the top countries that cater to families with young children. Due to a water polo tournament we had heard about from…
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24 Hours in Salzburg, Austria
When we were looking into day trips from Munich, the vast majority of our research was pointing us to Salzburg, Austria. We decided to add this day trip to our itinerary and it ended up being one of the highlights of the entire trip. To preface this post, if you plan on visiting Salzburg and…
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Sweet, Sweet Wintertime in Turks and Caicos
When we had originally set our eyes on Turks and Caicos, it was around Thanksgiving 2021 with an anticipated travel date of late January 2022. We wanted a nice, care-free, hassle-free vacation where we could just relax at a resort that catered to young children. With that criteria identified, we found Beaches Turks and Caicos,…
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The Pura Vida Life Continued
Before we starting having kids, we made the decision to continue traveling once we did have children. Since we loved our Costa Rican honeymoon so much and felt as though it would be a great destination for a small child, we set our sights on visiting the beautiful country again in December when our oldest…
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The Start to a Pura Vida Life
Highlighting our Costa Rican Honeymoon in 2016 With everything that went into planning a wedding, we made two definitive decisions about how we were going to handle our honeymoon: 1) we were not going to travel far since we just wanted to get to a destination and relax and 2) we didn’t want to do…
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Over the Pond and Through the Cities
After two, very long-awaited years, we finally embarked on our trip to London, Paris, and Lisbon. We had originally scheduled this trip in May 2020 but as I’m sure we all know, #thanksCOVID. At the time, our oldest daughter was almost a year and a half old and I was 4 months pregnant with our…
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