The following list is my random tips for traveling internationally with children. I learned this during our Panama & Costa Rica trips with our three children. Consider Renting a Home Through Vrbo.com: You could rent a beautiful, clean and well recommended home right on the beach instead of being stuffed in an “ok” hotel room
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We got back from Costa Rica and are just trying to adjust back to real life. I want to run away again. Who wants to be a grown up?! Not me. Our last night in Costa Rica was MAGICAL. We went into Jaco to a little Italian restaurant and ate outside. There was some sort
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This is my last post from our trip. In the future, I’ll put up two posts on Tips for Traveling to Costa Rica with Kids and Tips for Traveling Internationally with Kids, because I feel like I’ve learned a thing or two after our different trips. But this is the last of the “travel log”
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I spent a lot of time looking at that bug on the dashboard. Some jungle guy had made it out of the leaves on the tree for Abby. I stared at it for so, so long because the traffic had been unbelievably horrible. We (*ahem* ok —I—-) had decided to head back into the capital
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You would think this sign would have kept us out of the jungle. But in the book for the house, it talked all about going back there and checking out the animals. During the day we did! It was like its own bird & butterfly backyard. We took a spoooooky walk at dusk as well.
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I didn’t want to use a nanny from any of the agencies out here because, heck, even in America I am uptight about who watches my kids. So this put us in a bind when we were planning a zip-line/canopy tour through the jungle. What were we going to do with Shae? We decided we
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Everyone told us we need to go to Manuel Antonio National Park when visiting Costa Rica. It’s a national park where you can take a hike and see monkeys, birds, frogs, sloths, etc. in their natural (ha with too many visitors) habitat. Visiting Manuel Antonio with a 5 year old, 4 year old and 7
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I was so scared last night. I had convinced myself that I would in fact die while surfing, that it would be my final act in my short life. I gave the girls lots of kisses, told them I loved them and gave some words of wisdom to my oldest daughter: “BE PATIENT WITH YOUR
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I forgot to tell you what the little critters scratching on the roof all morning are! The iguanas. Just in case you ever are eating on the top of the roof in Costa Rica with your little ones, checking out the iguanas crawling all over the roof: I would suggest you SMOTHER the urge to
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WE MET HILLARY CLINTON IN TARCOLES, COSTA RICA! Check it out: Ok Ok, the CROCODILE’S name was Hillary Clinton. Also, in the river were Monica Lewinsky, Osama Bin Laden, Lady Gaga, Mike Tyson and George Bush. Quite a unique bunch. So crocodiles are the weird random thing I have been terribly afraid of since I was
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