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Cruising with Kids

Taking the family vacation on a cruise ship eliminates many of the issues of a road trip.  No more bored kids tired of sitting in the car whining “Are we there yet?”  Kids on cruise ships can run around and … Continue reading

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How to Fold Towel Animals – Making Towel Snakes

Towel origami: Step-by-step instructions on how to fold two different styles of towel snakes with lots of photos. Continue reading

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How to Fold a Cruise Ship Hanging Towel Monkey

How to make a towel monkey – step by step instructions with photos and video of stateroom steward folding a hanging towel monkey. Includes links to directions for folding all sorts of other towel animals as well. Continue reading

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How to Fold a Towel Crab

How to make towel animals: Complete towel art directions with photos for how to fold two different types of towel crabs, both my own inventions not found anywhere else. Links to directions for folding many other types of towel origami animals included. Continue reading

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Zip Line in Belize

After getting out of the water and dropping off the tubes from our excellent cave tubing adventure with cavetubing.com, we headed straight for the zipline.  At the fork in the trail where one way went to the ziplines and the … Continue reading

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Cave Tubing in Belize

This is no cruise ship tour.  And I mean that in a good way.  We really wanted to try the cave tubing in Belize.  Riding an inner tube down a river through a cave sounded like lots of fun.  We … Continue reading

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Carnival Funships 2.0

In 1972, Carnival bought its first ship, the Mardi Gras, which began life as a the Empress of Canada.  With that one refurbished ship they had a dream of starting a new era of fun and affordable cruising for everyone.  … Continue reading

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White Water Rafting on the Wenatchee River

Originally scheduled for a scenic float due to the time of year, we felt quite happy when told we could switch to white water due to the excess amount of water in the rivers this year.  Not quite the peak … Continue reading

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Leavenworth Washington – Bavaria in America

Many cruises leave from Seattle to Alaska during the summer.  Anyone who has a little extra time to spend in the area will find that Seattle has a lot to see.  With time to venture a bit farther away, there’s … Continue reading

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Comedy Cruise

We wanted one last hurrah before the baby was born.  I was gigantic.  I looked like I’d swallowed a basketball. Plus a football, and maybe a little league team.  I was 37 weeks pregnant, and going on a comedy cruise … Continue reading

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