Month: October 2015

  • Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Buck With a Family of Six in Orlando

    Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Buck With a Family of Six in Orlando

    We just returned from a fun-filled vacation in Orlando, Florida, where we visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in both Universal Orlando parks, spent a day at Discovery Cove and a day in SeaWorld. My friend asked me for Orlando tips, so I’m sharing them here in case other people are thinking about an Orlando…

  • Discovery Cove

    Discovery Cove

    Here’s the first of a few videos documenting our family trip last week – Note: They have dispensers of “animal safe” sunscreen all over and we really lathered it on before realizing your skin doesn’t absorb it like the animal unsafe kind. We’re not actually that pale.

  • Yellow Fork Canyon

    Yellow Fork Canyon

    Yellow Fork Canyon (also called Rose Canyon) is a secluded hiking/biking area in Herriman, Utah. In 2015, the county added a huge parking lot to accommodate the horse trailers and cars that used to have to line up along the “no parking” signs on the shoulder-less road near the entrance. Even with a crowded parking lot, there are…

  • Happy beagle, ears flopping in the wind

    Ralphie figured out how to roll down the window in the back seat. He enjoys life.