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Win a Week At Global Resort Homes With Your Favorite People

I’ve been talking a lot about traveling with groups lately. Whether it’s traveling with girlfriends, or a group of family friends or maybe your extended family, I think traveling as a group is great...

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Blue Man Group Is Family Friendly Fun at Universal Orlando

I like my entertainment straight up. When I go to the ballet I expect I’ll see the ballet. A concert is a concert. A play is a play. This simplistic approach to entertainment is most likely why I sat...

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Cabana Bay Universal Orlando Florida

Don’t miss Cabana Bay Universal Orlando, if you’re heading to Univeral Orlandofor your summer vacation. This 50s and 60s inspired property has a lot more for families than just the Mad Men-ish type...

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Excitement Builds for Harry Potter and The Escape From Gringott’s

Have I mentioned how ridiculously excited I am for the new expansion of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando? Probably once or twice right? The drums are beating louder now and...

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It’s Finally Here! Diagon Alley Opens at Universal Orlando

I’m ridiculously excited for all the people who were able to attend the grand opening of the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley today at Universal Orlando. I’m also totally jealous....

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The Happiest Party on Twitter: #DisneyFamilyTravel

In the mid-1960s, Walt Disney’s dream was to build a family resort destination like no other. The dream became a reality when Walt Disney World Resort opened in 1971, featuring Magic Kingdom as the...

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Hogswart Express Celebrates Millionth Visitor at Universal

Hogswart Express Celebrates Millionth Vistor at Universal? Wait a minute, that can’t be right? Didn’t the Hogswart Express just open at Universal on July 8th?! And yet, that was the email I received...

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How to Go RVing in NYC

Okay, so maybe the title of this post is a little misleading. You’re not exactly going to pull your RV up to Central Park and put out the slides, ok? You can go RVing in NYC though even if you’re not...

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How Two Canadian Girls Fell in Love with American Girl

In 2010 I visited New York City for the first time ever to attend BlogHer. I immediately fell in love with NYC and in an unexpected twist, was struck with guilt almost from the time I stepped off the...

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Why You Need To Visit A Dude Ranch

Let’s face it: getting away from it all is on everyone’s mind almost all the time. Maybe this general malaise we feel is rooted in the noise of our lives: running from one activity to another, juggling...

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Immerse Yourself in the World of Harry Potter

Less than a month after the new Diagon Alley and Hogswart Express opened in the summer of 2014, just over 1 million people made the trek to visit the crown jewel at Universal Studios Orlando. By the...

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Wild Africa Trek

We have been to Disney World in Florida a grand total of 13 times. I’m not even a little embarrassed to admit that trip #14 is currently in the planning stages. What can I say, we love Disney. It’s...

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22nd Day of Christmas

On the 22nd day of Christmas we started to live our dream of celebrating the holidays Disney style. The weather was perfect, the park was more than we ever could have imagined, and we all felt at home,...

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Grand Floridian Gingerbread House

Ummm, this ain’t no ordinary, come in a box gingerbread house. No sirree bob, this house is a true original that takes two months to build. This is what you’ll need to build a Gingerbread house Disney...

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The Osborne Spectacle of Lights

I had heard of The Osborne Spectacle of Lights before but off in the periphery, not really paying attention to it, and like a boob I thought it had something to do with Ozzy Osborne. Like I half...

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Disney Christmas Trees

Of all the things I love about Christmas, my tree is probably right at the top. Not putting it up was killing me this year. Ornaments from 25 years ago were left safely tucked away in their boxes and...

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Christmas at Fort Wilderness

A couple of days before we headed out on our Christmas vacation, we had an awesome idea. Like, a truly awesome idea. I can not stress enough the magnitude of this really AWESOME idea. We decided that...

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One More Disney Day

Disney is running a promotion right now that asks, “What would you do with one more day at Disney?” I’m not entirely sure that they wanted me to answer but I’m going to anyway. I’m pushy that way....

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The Florida Keys

Hmmmmmm. What do you need to know about the Florida Keys? Well, how about it’s composed of characters, of which you play a starring role. Young, old, gay, straight, conservative, liberal, American,...

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The Turtle Hospital

Have you ever seen a sea turtle out in it’s natural environment? Not on a TV monitor or movie screen, but in the ocean? As a scuba diver and snorkeler I often say that being under the water is the...

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