Category: Parts Unknown
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Merica
Florida doesn’t hit very high on my list of must-go places but pretty much all of the rest of the families we know swear by it. I won’t say I’m necessarily converted, I don’t see us rushing back year after year, but I’ms starting to get what they see in…
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Travel Days
Anyone who has done any amount of traveling knows that the days where you actually do the traveling suck. Because COVID complicates just about everything, we needed to be at the airport extra early to provide all of our certificates of recovery and negative test results. We had everyone packed…
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Santo Domingo
Because we had to rearrange all of our flights, twice, we were no longer able to fly out of Punta Cana. The cheapest option we could find to get back to North America was to move up to Santo Domingo for our last few days before flying to Fort Lauderdale.…
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Bye Bye Bavaro
Thankfully we all quickly recovered from our run-in with COVID. It knocked us out of commission for a couple of days. Everyone experienced something slightly different: I had a fever and a bad cough, Jacob had a sinus headache, Charlie and Nora were sick to their stomachs and febrile, and…
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On a positive note…
Late last week we realized we only had a few days left in the tropics and decided that wasn’t enough for us. We did some quick research and decided to shift all our flights around and fly to Florida instead of home. We bad everything all set – flights changed,…
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Cirque de Soleil
On the drive from the airport to our villa on the first day we passed these huge black and white striped circus tents. At first I assumed it was a sketchy local circus until we saw the huge Kooza signs, it turns out cirque de soleil is in town. I’ve…
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Bravo Bavaro
Saturday we bought a pass to the Iberostar Bavaro Suites resort. The villa we are staying in is inside the Iberostar complex. This means that we can opt-in to the all-inclusive plan at any of the three resorts. The kids had been eyeing the Bavaro because it has a splash…
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Lazy Days
The kids are exhausted. Turns out swimming three plus hours a day will wear you out. To avoid spending the whole day listening to them whinge and whine we spent the day sitting around the house. They spent way too much time on their screens and were sent to bed…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 