Where to Stay in Petra: Luxury at Movenpick Petra Jordan Just steps from the UNESCO World Heritage site and NEW 7th Wonder of the World lies the Movenpick Petra Resort. Petra, lies about three hours by car from Amman, Jordan’s capital city. It is Jordan”™s biggest tourist draw and worth it”™s status as the […]
Visiting Jordan with Kids: Settled into Amman
Visiting Jordan with Kids: Settled into Amman If you missed our Day 1 in Jordan, you can check it out here. Today Markus discovered the bidet sprayer in the bathroom. I don’t think I need to tell you that everything was wet. The floor, the walls, the toilet, the sink. Thankfully it is all tile […]
Daily Life in Jordan with Kids: A Journal Day 1
Daily Life in Jordan with Kids It’s 2 am local time; no surprise the boys are awake and want to get up. It’s 4pm in Vancouver and their bodies are protesting the time change. Somehow we all slept almost 8 hours last night, perhaps travel weary from our almost 24 hours in transit from […]
Inn On Long Lake Nanaimo Review
Your Vancouver Island Visit needs a stop at the Inn on Long Lake We spent Christmas at the Inn on Long Lake in Nanaimo, British Columbia while we visited Vancouver Island on Canada’s West Coast. Three nights in our one bedroom suite and it felt like a home away form home. Modest in appearance from […]
Why we loved Bellevue WA this Holiday Season
Why we loved Bellevue WA this Holiday Season An enormous decorated Christmas tree stands in the lobby of the Hyatt Bellevue, Toy Solders line the streets, and lights, so many lights decorate Bellevue Square at Snowflake Lane in Bellevue Washington. Oh, and did I mention the parade to kick off the holidays and the […]
Holy S#!T we are going to Jordan!!
Holy S#!T we are going to Jordan! “Jordan? You mean JORDAN?” “Yes, the country in the Middle East, Jordan” “You are going where?” “Jordan, the country next to Israel, Jordan!” “Why would you go there! It”™s dangerous there!” “You know ISIS is in Jordan right?” These were among the many comments […]