This is a collection of thoughts I've put together over the past few weeks to help us remember some of the insights, learnings, frustrations and joys of travelling with kids... enjoy! SAFETY We're pleased to say that, after losing the boys in Singapore on the very
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Another week's worth of haikus... Day 120 • 2 Jan • Las Vegas The fountains next door Leap and sway to music like Wet ballerinas. Day 121 • 3 Jan • Las Vegas Mac King amazes. How'd he eat his guinea pig? I think he's magic. Day 122
As news-aware blog readers will have realised, we have been in Los Angeles during the exact timeframe of the most destructive wildfires to ever hit this city. It's currently Friday morning (we arrived on Monday) and the two biggest fires are still raging, new ones keep popping up,
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One of the activities available at Universal Studios is a tour of the actual studio areas. As the wait time got down to under 5 minutes at one point on Tuesday, we headed over to do the 1 hour tour before lunch. For the tour you ride in articulated electric
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Tuesday, our first full day in Los Angeles, was my birthday. And our longstanding plan was to spend both my birthday and J's (two days apart) at Universal Studios Hollywood, which we'd booked tickets for before we left Australia. So on Tuesday morning, which was incredibly
Thanks to Delle, Roxy and Jo W for these questions! 1. I know lots of planning went into your trip — has there been anything that has been surprising to you? The thing that has probably surprised us the most is how much activities cost. We knew we had some big-ticket
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On Monday we headed out of Las Vegas on our way to Los Angeles. This included a long drive through the Mojave National Preserve. We stopped for lunch at the famous (apparently) Peggy Sue's 50s Diner. After lunch we headed over to the other side of the highway
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An interview with F and J... What is Tournament of Kings? F: Tournament of Kings is a knight show, where, depending on your seating, you get a specific king to cheer for in the tournament. The tournament consists of multiple different challenges involving jousting, single combat and riding down the
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Before going to our Tournament of Kings show on Sunday night, we headed the other way up the Strip to show the boys The Venetian. It was always my second-favourite Vegas hotel/casino after the Bellagio, though after this visit I think it's now my favourite. Mainly because
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Saturday kicked off with a timeshare presentation to secure cheap tickets to Tournament of Kings. (Previous timeshare presentation experience in 2009: went in not knowing it was a timeshare presentation, thought we were being given a hotel tour, got stuck there for 4 hours, almost bought a timeshare. This time:
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An interview with F, J and B... Who is Mac King and why did you go to see him? F: Mac King is a comedy magic show, and we went to see him because that's the kinda thing you do in Las Vegas, you go to see magic
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On Friday we did some more exploring of the Las Vegas Strip before our 3pm magic show booking... 0:00 /0:30 1× We'll do a separate post about the magic show! But here are a few more pics of the Strip at night on our walk home