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The Best of the Rest: Bay Area 2020

On our second day there, we woke up very early to meet up with San Francisco’s best tour guide: my Uncle Richard. My uncle has lived in the Bay Area his entire life and he absolutely loves visiting San Francisco. He was kind enough to oblige us on whatever we wanted to do – which was mostly a bunch of touristy things we had done as children and wanted to relive. First, we were headed to Alcatraz.

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Overall, this play is a MUST SEE for any Harry Potter fan. It absolutely blew us away. We had seen Broadway’s Frozen just a week prior and that had impressed us. This was in an entirely different category of what I believed to be possible on stage. These tickets were not cheap, but I would happily throw down the money to go see it again if it ever comes to Denver. Adam, who is a more casual Harry Potter fan, would also pay to see it a second time. We were both positively dazzled.

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The Best of the Rest – Southern California 2020

Disneyland isn’t the only spot we visit when we go on vacation to Southern California. We generally try to spread our Disney days out so we aren’t completely exhausted going several days in a row. We are very fortunate to have a place to stay close to the parks, because my Uncle Peter actually is an architect that does a lot of contracted work for Disneyland. This post is about the stuff we do in between our park days.

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2 Years of DINKyouverymuch – A Look Back at How It Started

We were sitting at the shuttle stop on the last day of our Disney World vacation, waiting for the bus that would take us from the Caribbean Beach Resort to Animal Kingdom. We were talking over all of our experiences we had just had – which park we liked most, which park we liked most, which restaurants were the best, if we would ever stay at Caribbean Beach Resort again.

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