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Away we go

Talk to me about Nova Scotia!

13 January 2010

Hey bloggy peeps, talk to me about Nova Scotia. We’ve been to Bar Harbor in Maine and Quebec City, but we’ve always wanted to go to Nova Scotia and have started talking about driving out there this summer. Three little kids in the car for four or five solid days of driving? [...]

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The lion that roared

16 November 2009

We zipped down to Southern Ontario this weekend to visit my brother’s family for my neice’s and nephew’s joint birthday party. The low point was standing at the side of the 401 on Friday afternoon, having just cleaned vomit off a toddler and his car seat, unable to get the lock on the Thule [...]

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Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures: Crysler Beach

3 August 2009

Looking for a perfect “stay-cation” adventure near Ottawa? How about a miniature train ride and a day on the water at Crysler Beach? It’s a lovely hour’s drive through the charming small towns along highway 31 to the St Lawrence Seaway — totally worth the drive on a sunny summer day that also [...]

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Five things about Great Wolf Lodge

6 July 2009

When planning our family vacation this year, it was Great Wolf Lodge that pulled us to Niagara Falls and not the other way around. I’d been hearing rave reviews about GWL from other families for a while, and though I thought it was rather overpriced, when my sister-in-law said she could share her teacher’s [...]

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Five things I learned in Niagara Falls

3 July 2009

We’re freshly back from three days in Niagara Falls. It was a terrific trip for many reasons, including spending time with our extended family and excellent behaviour on the part of all five kids in attendance. Here, in no particular order, are five things I learned in Niagara Falls. (The “five things” [...]

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Niagara Falls recommendations?

3 June 2009

So in the past few years, we’ve ventured to Quebec City, Bar Harbor, Smuggler’s Notch, and Lake Placid on our summer vacations. This year, we wanted something within easy driving range, and in Canada because none of us have our passports. I’d heard a lot of good things about Great Wolf Lodge in [...]

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Imagine if the trip to Lake Placid had been this, well, placid

10 August 2008

Suckers for punishment that we are, we decided on one last road trip this summer. We loaded the boys into the van and drove across the province, through the unbelievably picturesque Algonquin Park, to see the boys paternal grandparents, Mimi and Pipi.
If nothing else, the trip completely restored my confidence in our ability [...]

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Lake Placid vacation part five: afterwords

31 July 2008

A couple of you have commented on the fact that we were brave to take a vacation like this with the kids, and looking back I see I’ve painted a rather revisionist rosy shade on our vacation. We did have a great time, but I have to be honest — this was a terribly [...]

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Lake Placid vacation part four: Home by way of the North Pole

30 July 2008

Last year when we were planning our trip to Bar Harbor, we toyed with places to visit on the way there. Knowing we’d cut across the top of New York State, some of the suggestions we got included the Ausable Chasm or the Lake Champlain Ferry (which we took). Both Marla and Nancy [...]

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Lake Placid vacation part three: out and about

29 July 2008

We stayed three nights in Lake Placid, and the time just flew by. The first day was burned up by the drive from hell, and the last day — well, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Our extended family convened for breakfast each morning at Charlie’s Restaurant, adjacent to the hotel. (If you go, by [...]

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