I’m lazy today and don’t want to write much 🙂 so I thought I’d share some of our photos from our travels ten and five years ago. Sometimes it’s really fun to go down the memory lane!
2006 February – Rabka, Poland
During February vacation in 2006 I took my son to Poland to spend some time with my parents. We went to Rabka, Poland, a small town popular with families because of its salt works (it’s a spa town).
My son had fun going sledding with my Dad:

And learning how to ski:

2006 May – Boston, Massachusetts
In May 2006 it was time for my mom and my sister to visit us, and we all took a boat trip to the Boston Harbor Islands:


2006 November – Washington, DC
Back in 2006, I worked for a place that had a major convention each year, and the 2006 convention was in Washington, DC. My husband and my son tagged along, and I managed to sneak out to the Washington, DC Smithsonian’s National Zoo with them:

We also visited the National Museum of Natural History:

2011 January – Warszawa, Poland
Fast forward five years and it’s four of us traveling now, not just three.
When we visited Poland in the winter of 2010/2011, just before we left we managed to see the brand new, just opened Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland. The kids had a lot of fun in the giant hamster wheel you can see in the featured photo above, and at other exhibits as well:

2011 April – Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
During another school vacation, we did a bit of local travel and went back in time at the Old Sturbridge Village, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts:

2011 August – Florida
2011 was also the first and so far only time we went to Disneyworld. We brought our other grandparents with us, and the kids had fun hanging out with the American Grammy and Grampa.

We also visited the Kennedy Space Center:

What will 2016 bring?

Not sure yet where exactly we’ll travel in 2016. We probably will go to Poland to see the grandparents again, and might segue into Germany. We’d like to go somewhere with the American grandparents too, and perhaps do a little trip on our own as well. I do have over four weeks vacation after all 🙂
Do you like to look at your old photos on Thursdays? 🙂 Fun, isn’t it? Especially with the kids, watching how much they changed…
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Lucky kids for being able to travel as much as they have traveled now. 🙂
Thanks for reading, Pinay! Yes, that’s what I keep telling them. 😉
That’s a fun idea for a post. I’m totally sentimental! We aren’t far from Old Sturbridge Village, but we’ve never been. Do you think it’s worth going with teens?
Thank you for reading, Tara! If your teens like history and “old times” and like to learn about the way things were long time ago, I think they might like the Old Sturbridge Village. They are likely to remember more than little kids from what they see and learn.
Love your photos. I definitely would love to be pulled by a horse on a sled!
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Thank you for reading, Corinne! And yes, my son loved it as you can see from his big smile.
Really want to visit Boston and Washington DC one day – was meant to during our NYC 2 weeks holiday but not once during that fortnight did we leave Manhattan island ha ha ha
Well, two weeks is not enough for Manhattan, so I’m not surprised you never left the island. Maybe next time!
Travelling with kids brings with it an entirely different level of amazement.
Sounds like they’ve had some great adventures!
The Smithsonian Zoo in D.C. is one of my favorite places in D.C. I laughed at some of the signs that said “We are not home”
Not to sound like a total geek, but that Space Centre sounds SO MUCH FUN. I loved Science museums and the like as a kid. Glad to see they’re still as interesting as ever.
Places change but there’s always something interesting going on no matter how old we are 🙂
What a great review of some of your travels over the years. My personal fave would have to be Walt Disney World and the Kennedy Space Centre – i’ve been to both and really enjoyed them. Do your kids have any suggestions for activities on your trips or are they just happy to go with the flow? Hope your they appreciate it anyway!
Happy Travels 🙂