The two days we spent at the Tokyo Disney Parks were really fun, although not for the reasons you normally think of when visiting a Disney park. In Part 1, I described the interesting people that one could watch all day long throughout the parks. In Part 2, we're gonna cover the merchandising and how it differs in Japan from America. The Merch! Our first day was spent at Tokyo Disneyland, the ... View Post
Tokyo Disneyland – Part 1
Our family has visited both the east and west coast Disney theme parks in America, the Disneyland Paris theme parks and now we've visited the Tokyo Disneyland park. I must say it was So. Much. Fun. That's not saying that the rides are better or the layout is better. In fact, we were disappointed when we headed straight for Space Mountain only to find that it was closed for maintenance. ... View Post
Oceania – Fiji!
I've been bad about keeping up with posts to the blog, for which I have no other excuse than that I was tired. The last post was written somewhere in Europe when we were in the final weeks of the second leg of the RTW tour. I love Italy, but we almost coasted through the touring there. There were days when we would only go out for 2-3 hours and then go back to our hotel/bnb/hostel and ... View Post
Behind the Scenes – It’s Not All Laughs and Gelato
Every day I take tons of photos. I post the best ones that I feel are either artistically interesting, culturally significant, or funny. The rest of them are not quite Facebook worthy, like the one above. My kids were so uninterested in the Greek ruins at Delphi that they decided to sit down and play with their latest puzzle cube. Yes, you can say it's exciting and fantastic and a ... View Post
Jordan – Old or New?
Our time in Jordan has been just about right for our family - we had enough time to enjoy seeing many historical sights, enough time to experience the culture and food, but not too much time to where we were dying to leave. (Honestly, only one or two countries have been not to our liking and we have anxiously awaited the plane/train ride out.) While Jordan can be considered a typical ... View Post
Egypt – Part III
Empty Buildings The third thing I noticed on the way from the airport were the tall, dark buildings. There are hundreds of 12-15 story buildings in parts of Cairo and Giza, and many other shorter buildings (2-5 stories) that are empty. Not just empty in the sense that they have been built and are awaiting people to move into them, but empty in the sense that the brick and concrete exoskeleton ... View Post
