Ideas and resources for planning a family reunion vacation. These are the actual family reunion vacations I’ve planned and taken.
My daughter and her friend wanted to take a wine and cheese class so I decided to make it educational! We learned how to make cheese and butter. It started early at 10 am which was a little tough for my sleep-deprived, jet-lagged group but we rallied and the cheese aging cave revived us. Making…
It was a beautiful day in Columbus where my husband and I were there for the NCTE conference. We decided to check out the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Because we were there in November, some parts of the zoo were typically closed for winter such as the African animal section but opted to open…
My husband discovered fishing off the Charles River as a pandemic activity that we enjoyed together. We took our dog for a walk. I would either paint in watercolor, walk around with my dog for exercise, or I would forage in the woods, at least trying to identify the natural edibles using an app called…
Barbara Richardson, my 87-year-old neighbor loves orchids so when I knew that I had to take photos of the world’s largest orchid garden at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. My favorite spot in this garden-within-a-garden is the cold house! It is so hot in Singapore that instead of a hothouse, they need a cold house. And…
It was the highlight of our trip to California for my husband to play on one of his all-time favorite golf courses, Riviera Country Club! This is a PGA golf tournament in conjunction with Tiger Woods’ foundation. He was invited to be part of the San Jose State foursome to support one of their players,…
My husband booked us at the Jen Hotel in Singapore when I helped my daughter move into her dorm room at National University of Singapore (NUS). It’s part of the Shangri La hotel company and located very centrally in Orchard Gateway. We discovered that we were right next door to the subway and across the…
Included in our Singapore Food Tour was a cultural and history lesson so we were quite excited to go inside the massive Buddhist temple in Chinatown, The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, which has several floors and is both a temple and a museum! I would have been intimidated to go inside without our tour guide….