Air Travel Tips
15 AIR TRAVEL TIPS FOR PARENTS WITH INFANTS Keep it short-haul. My sister-in-law recently asked me, "What do you do with a one-year-old on a six-hour flight." Honestly, I don't know. If you have any suggestions, please send them my way. I'm just happy for her that she's not taking a two-year-old on a six-hour flight. Personally, I wouldn't take a toddler on a flight longer than two hours. But what if you can't? Luckily,
Flying With Babies Part II
<-- Continued from Flying With Babies Part I PART II - THE STORY OF A NOT-SO-EASY TRAVEL BABY Enter baby number two. Ethan is easy-going and cautious. He is introverted and does not like noise. Crowds overwhelm him. Ethan was only
Flying With Babies
PART I: THE STORY OF AN EASY TRAVEL BABY Travelling, like practically everything else, is a unique experience with every baby. My first-born is outgoing and adventurous. (The first time we took her to a mall, she was so excited, nearly every passerby commented on how happy she was.) She loves noise and can sleep through construction but not conversation.
Nightmare Inn
A TRAVEL HORROR STORY After having woken suddenly and without reason in the middle of the night, I was finally drifting back off to sleep. Then I heard something. It sounded like voices in the distance. Tracking the direction, it sounded like it was coming from the clearing in front of the rusty, abandoned trucks we had seen earlier. My heart began to beat faster. My mind raced. I pictured rituals including blood sacrifice. Maybe she was chanting spells. Through slitted eyelids I glimpsed flickering light. How did it get so close? The voices had seemed far away...
Visit Olympic Vancouver in 2010. Join millions!
LET THE OLYMPIC GAMES BEGIN! At 7:30 PST yesterday I had a burst of olympic spirit and sat down in front of the PC to check out the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympiad. Having some technical difficulties, my family and I frantically surfed until I located a couple of live streamed telecasts. Finally we were ready to go, and enjoyed the next few hours of wonderfully synchronized skating, poetry, music, and aerial acrobatic super slalomers and snowboarders. It was a very heart warming celebration punctuated by
Air Travel Tips
15 AIR TRAVEL TIPS FOR PARENTS WITH INFANTS
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Keep it short-haul. My sister-in-law recently asked me, “What do you do with a one-year-old on a six-hour flight.” Honestly, I don’t know. If you have any suggestions, please send them my way. I’m just happy for her that she’s not taking a two-year-old on a six-hour flight. Personally, I wouldn’t take a toddler on a flight longer than two hours.
- But what if you can’t? Luckily, (more…)
Flying With Babies Part II
<– Continued from Flying With Babies Part I
PART II – THE STORY OF A NOT-SO-EASY TRAVEL BABY
Enter baby number two.
Ethan is easy-going and cautious. He is introverted and does not like noise. Crowds overwhelm him. Ethan was only (more…)
Flying With Babies
PART I: THE STORY OF AN EASY TRAVEL BABY
Travelling, like practically everything else, is a unique experience with every baby. My first-born is outgoing and adventurous. (The first time we took her to a mall, she was so excited, nearly every passerby commented on how happy she was.) She loves noise and can sleep through construction but not conversation. (more…)
Nightmare Inn
A TRAVEL HORROR STORY
After having woken suddenly and without reason in the middle of the night, I was finally drifting back off to sleep. Then I heard something. It sounded like voices in the distance. Tracking the direction, it sounded like it was coming from the clearing in front of the rusty, abandoned trucks we had seen earlier. My heart began to beat faster. My mind raced. I pictured rituals including blood sacrifice. Maybe she was chanting spells. Through slitted eyelids I glimpsed flickering light. How did it get so close? The voices had seemed far away… (more…)
Visit Olympic Vancouver in 2010. Join millions!
LET THE OLYMPIC GAMES BEGIN!
At 7:30 PST yesterday I had a burst of olympic spirit and sat down in front of the PC to check out the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympiad. Having some technical difficulties, my family and I frantically surfed until I located a couple of live streamed telecasts. Finally we were ready to go, and enjoyed the next few hours of wonderfully synchronized skating, poetry, music, and aerial acrobatic super slalomers and snowboarders. It was a very heart warming celebration punctuated by (more…)
