family fun

This is a MUST-DO Bucket List adventure to add to your travel wishlist and Costa Rica itinerary!! 5am alarm was totally worth it! Our condo in Bejuco Beach is about an hour away from the entrance to Manuel Antonio National Park and we were meeting...

The tooth fairy came to Thailand! Spud was so excited to get gummy teeth, a little hamster toy, and a 10 baht coin. Long long travel day today to get to our next destination… First we packed up & checked out of our rooms. A van from the...

This morning started out with a lovely breakfast of…. Grilled cheese and corn sandwiches! And if you didn’t want that, you could have grilled cheese and sausage (think bland hot dog) or grilled cheese and raisin. Yum yum. Blech. Today...

So remember how I said that we got half of the main section of wall painted light blue yesterday? Well, the new bucket of paint that we used didn’t *quite* match the color of the front or other side once it was dry. It took a long time to...

Another breakfast at the Sunshine Center then 45 minutes in the back of the truck. This time the driver avoided the huge bump in the road that made us all fly yesterday. We got right to work where we left off – NixiRay painted a panel of fence...

This morning after breakfast we got in the back of a truck with 4 other volunteers (2 german girls (Hannah is talkative, the other girl must not know English well), Callum from New York & Andrew from New Jersey), along with 2 volunteer...

Our flight to Bangkok was scheduled at 10:45am so we got up early, finished packing, and left in time to return the rental car to the airport by 8am. We went to check in with the airline and found the counter for Nok Air closed…. Superman went...

Hotel breakfast included salad with a dressing that tasted like bacon. Not gonna lie, I don’t think salad is a breakfast food. We also had eggs, ham, sausage that tasted like bland hot dogs, and bread with butter and jam (which doesn’t...