Traveling with kids is an adventure and one my husband and I highly recommend doing. There’s no right age to travel with kids – we started when Lou Lou and Jaf were both babies, taking them along on work trips. It wasn’t until Lou Lou was 4 (and Jaf was 2) that we decided to …
Before I had Lou Lou and Jaf, my husband and I lived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for 20 years. In 1993, I got into a fender-bender with a van while driving in the Emirate of Sharjah. Since I did not have an international license, and the car that I hit was not driven by …
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We spent most of 2014 and this year traveling though Europe, with quick trips to North Africa & the Middle East where we learned about food, culture, tradition & various customs. Our kids, LouLou & Jaf are worldschoolers, learning about traditions across the world. We’re back home in Hawaii for the holidays, but our learning …
At every single restaurant we dined at this year the “kids menu” we received while visiting countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Europe included the same items; Cheese Pizza Pepperoni Pizza Spaghetti Chicken Nuggets Hamburger Cheeseburger Macaroni and Cheese Hot Dog You would expect to find these popular, unhealthy foods from restaurants across …
Trying different cuisines is like picking different colors of clothes from your closet. It gives you a sense of novelty, adventure, and it opens your eyes to something new allowing you to be creative. Jaf and Lou Lou, if you haven’t guessed, are Multicultural. I, their Mom am Hawaiian and their father Lebanese, which automatically …
While in the Netherlands we managed to meet up with a friend who we knew from Dubai 20 years ago. She invited us to her home to have a traditional meal from Suriname, a small country in South America. We were happy to have been invited and gladly accepted the invitation. We took a 2-hour …
