Let a 48 hour travel journey begin, at 1am of course. We had a driver pick us up for our 3:30am flight. Thankfully the hotel was willing to pack up some fruit, yogurt, and pastries for our breakfast. The drive was wonderfully short compared to our hour long traffic filled arrival. It’s amazing how peaceful… Continue reading Travel Day: Cairo, Egypt, to Athens, Greece, to Doha, Qatar, to Seattle, Washington, to Anchorage, AK
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Travel Day: Luxor to Cairo, Egypt
This is our balloon just before they tipped the basket upright. The baskets are so large, ours held about 20 people. It wasn’t even the largest! Two hours after leaving the hotel we’re up in the air! Another bucket list item is checked off on this trip! Watching the other balloons take off and float… Continue reading Travel Day: Luxor to Cairo, Egypt
Travel Day: Dead Sea, Jordan to Luxor, Egypt
We were able to sleep and wake up without an alarm which was lovely. L woke up with a bit of a stuffy nose. But it seems to be nothing more than that for now. R is still fighting through the cold junk in the mornings. We had breakfast which was fine, again staff wasn’t… Continue reading Travel Day: Dead Sea, Jordan to Luxor, Egypt
Travel Day: Petra to Dead Sea, Jordan
Today was just a driving day. We were driving from Petra to the Dead Sea. This is 123 miles and estimates about 3.5 hours. We had a good breakfast in the hotel and packed ourselves up. The kids listened to audiobooks and played some games. Jordan seems very mountainous, anywhere we drove was always up… Continue reading Travel Day: Petra to Dead Sea, Jordan
Travel Day: Athens, Greece to Aqaba, Jordan
Ty was working on uploading the Covid documents to the Jordan website, when I went to sleep. Apparently that was quite the process and took him a few hours. Then he slept for a couple hours before waking up again. The kids and I managed 7 hours of sleep before we had to get up… Continue reading Travel Day: Athens, Greece to Aqaba, Jordan
Anchorage, AK to Seattle, Wa to Doha, Qatar: Travel Days
The Hamptons Annual International Christmas Trip is back!! With quite a bit of trepidation, lots of research, 10 rounds of Covid shots between the four of us, and two rounds of PCR testing done, we are on our way to Jordan and Egypt for a few weeks! But of course, we can’t go directly there… Continue reading Anchorage, AK to Seattle, Wa to Doha, Qatar: Travel Days
Anchorage, Ak to Johor Bahru, Malaysia: Travel Day(s)
Also when we travel to 4 countries in approximately 24 hours! 🤪 So Ty and I booked this trip back in the early fall of 2019. Before we’d really taken our three other giant international back to back trips. 🤦🏻♀️ Our Christmas trip to Japan was lovely, but also full of total burnout. It. Was.… Continue reading Anchorage, Ak to Johor Bahru, Malaysia: Travel Day(s)
Honolulu, HI to Anchorage, AK: Travel Days
We had two full days in Hawaii before we left at 9pm on the second night. The weather on the first full day sort of cooperated. It wasn’t glorious sunshine, but it wasn’t pouring rain either. We had weird intermittent mists but for the most part we played at the beach. R is a total… Continue reading Honolulu, HI to Anchorage, AK: Travel Days
Tokyo Disney, Japan to Honolulu, HI: Travel Day
It’s our last day in Japan! Exciting and bittersweet. It’s been quite the experience but we are ready to be home. We have a flight from Tokyo to Osaka at 8pm and then we go straight to our flight from Osaka to Honolulu. So fingers crossed it all goes smoothly today. Breakfast in the hotel… Continue reading Tokyo Disney, Japan to Honolulu, HI: Travel Day
Kyoto to Tokyo, Japan: Travel Day
We had another wonderful pancake breakfast, while catching up with family. Then packed up and readied ourselves for the walk to the train station. We were taking the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo. It was going to take 2 hours, and the kids were so excited to get a chance to watch some shows.… Continue reading Kyoto to Tokyo, Japan: Travel Day