We started our “decade of travel” with the kids in 2016 – the year my husband and I turned 40 and the year my oldest turned 8 (meaning he had 10 years left before leaving for college). Our goal during this time period is to take one big trip a year (preferably international) and as many small trips as we can fit in to explore locally and nationally. Alaska has long been on our bucket list, and we decided an Alaskan cruise leaving from Vancouver, Canada would fit the bill perfectly for 2019’s big trip. 2019 also happened to be …

This was the second trip to DC for our kids but that honestly didn’t impact our planning at all.  They were 4 and 6 when we went last time so I wasn’t worried about repeating things.  They were young enough then that they wouldn’t remember enough details for it to seem repetitive.  And even if they did, they are old enough now that they would look at things with a new perspective.  I figured we’d do some repeats and some new things. Our first time around we went to the National Zoo, walked the monuments, and visited both the Air …

We settled on a 4 day, 3 night trip to Atlanta at the beginning of our spring break week.  There are so many things to do in Atlanta, but we knew the aquarium was at the top of our list, with World of Coca-Cola close behind (for the kids at least).  We used that as our starting point and figured out our other activities from there. Atlanta CitiPASS Since we were planning on hitting several of Atlanta’s biggest highlights, the CitiPASS was a great option for us.  It is essentially a coupon book for Atlanta’s top attractions.  Each booklet contains …