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Sandos Caracol! Two Weeks From Today!! (And A Bit About How To “Know Before You Go”)

Because the Internet – everything from YouTube to Instagram, TripAdvisor to Twitter, mommy bloggers to travel bloggers and much much more – allows you to get a sense of travel destinations before you go, I sometimes think the anticipation of a trip is (almost) as good as the trip itself. Okay, maybe not… 😉 (Oh, and if you find […]

¶ Posted 08 February 2017 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, travel, twitter, youtube

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our Mexican Wedding (March 2003)

We leave for Playa Del Carmen in three weeks. Over the past few years, we’ve had a handful of tropical trips, we’ve been back to Mexico once but haven’t been back to near where we were married in fourteen years (this time, we’re at a resort just north of Playa Del Carmen, last time we were […]

¶ Posted 02 February 2017 § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, parents, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – New Years Eve Countdown, Iberostar Varadero (December 31, 2015)

Hard to believe that just over a year ago, we were celebrating New Year’s Eve in Cuba!

¶ Posted 05 January 2017 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Travel § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, food, holiday, language, parents, travel, xmas

Five Star @SparkleTour #yqr @ctvregina

Thanks to the good folks at SparkleTour.ca, it’s super-easy for anyone in Regina to plot out a tour of some of the best light displays our city has to offer – you can find the ones nearest you or, as we did tonight, plot a route to all of the ones that have achieved a […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2016 § Family § MemoryLane § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: cool, holiday, music, saskatchewan, travel

Our Christmas Timeline

November 11 – Remembrance Day in Canada is Singles Day (aka 11/11) in China so we usually buy a few things direct from sites like AliExpress on what is China’s equivalent of Black Friday to get our Christmas shopping started. November 12 – Remembrance Day is over so I can officially start getting into the Christmas […]

¶ Posted 13 December 2016 § Family § Humour § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Work § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: cute, parents, xmas

Saturday Snap – My Favourite Christmas Tradition?

One of Shea’s and my Christmas traditions is that we go out for lunch together without kids (usually) sometime in December to a place where we can have a good meal and possibly a pint or other refreshing beverage as well. We were both off yesterday so decided to visit the Rochdale Leopold’s (I’d been before […]

¶ Posted 11 December 2016 § Family § Photo § Randomness § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, saskatchewan

Saturday Snap – Ghost Pepper Wings

Shea: “Let’s try these. There’s no way a store would sell something that’s too hot. They probably put like a microgram of ghost pepper on the wings and they taste a bit hotter than regular buffalo wings.” Pace: “I don’t like hot food but I saw a video on YouTube saying ghost peppers are one […]