Parks
NEW YORK, New York BUCKET LIST
For “Family Home Evening”, we made a NYC bucket-list. And, with two weeks left in the city, and Aunt Amelia with us for the duration, we set to work! ROCKAWAY BEACH is a long bus ride from home, but body-boarding on the waves made it worth the trek. Though visiting this beach was not a …
WASHINGTON, dc
Guest Blogger: E Blanchard is an accomplished author, violinist, artist, runner, and an award winning scientist – first place in the 4th Grade science fair. And she is currently working on her portfolio as a photographer. Enjoy this, and future excerpts from her travel journal, via guest appearances on Livingandtravelingwithkids.com. Our family …
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands
Our family took the Eurostar train from London, through Belgium, and north to the Netherlands. Past windmills and colorful miles of rows of tulips – every kind of tulip you could never imagine – and into Amsterdam. This Spring holiday was arranged as a home-exchange, in fact. And we stayed just south of Amsterdam’s Vondelpark, off Noorder Amstelkanaal. WARNING: The mosquito …
MADISON SQUARE PARK, New York City
Several years ago, our three-year-old E attended her first punk rock band concert on the Madison Square Park lawn. The band was the Deedle Deedle Dees – apparently “America’s ultimate teaching band”. I must say, it remains one of the highlights of my New York City experience! We all danced to songs about ant-ranchers, a vegetarian tyrannosaurus rex, …
ROOSEVELT ISLAND, New York City
cherry blossoms high and low always make my mother glow as their perfume fills the air the sparkling petals fair a squirrel’s claws scrape up wood playing wind and waves with the dancing blooms following behind nature is very peaceful E penned her poetry, from her top bunk at home, the evening after our visit to see the ROOSEVELT ISLAND …