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  • Take the Kids to Broadway — see Lombardi coach the Packers before there was a Super Bowl
    Backyard Vacations | Destinations | Families & Groups | Weekly Column

    Take the Kids to Broadway — see Lombardi coach the Packers before there was a Super Bowl

    ByEileen Ogintz February 3, 2011June 28, 2023

    Super Bowl? The Packers? You should see Vince before there was a Super Bowl. The second week in February (Feb. 6 to 10) kids rule Broadway with free tickets (up to age 18, kids can see a Broadway show for free when accompanied by a paying adult) to shows like “Lombardi.” There are pre-theater parties, restaurant discounts, parking discounts, special-edition Kids’ Night Playbills and more.

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  • Watching a daughter grow up on the slopes
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    Watching a daughter grow up on the slopes

    ByEileen Ogintz February 2, 2011June 28, 2023

    Sure, I’ve tried to raise my two daughters and my son to seek challenges. Like you, I’ve hoped that travel has shown them how exciting and exhilarating it can be to step out of their comfort zones. I’ve proudly watched them manage when confronted by unexpected obstacles, whether it was lost luggage, bad weather, illness or simply disappointment when the destination hasn’t met their expectations. They’ve learned lessons on vacation that translate to their everyday lives

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  • More than you can possibly do on one Disney Cruise
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    More than you can possibly do on one Disney Cruise

    ByEileen Ogintz January 28, 2011June 28, 2023

    Whether you are a first time cruiser, a Disney cruise fan (some have cruised the line a dozen times or more), cruising with one child, or your extended family (at least 1/3 of cruisers will be), you will be hard pressed to do even half of what this ship has to offer—and that includes Disney’s private island, Castaway Cay.

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  • Disney’s newest and biggest cruiseship is christened
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    Disney’s newest and biggest cruiseship is christened

    ByEileen Ogintz January 27, 2011June 28, 2023

    Yes, vacation dreams can come true. At least Mickey Mouse thinks so as he promises dreams of adventure, friendship, romance and fun at the rollicking Christening of Disney’s new Dream.

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  • Disney Dream Ups the Ante for Family Cruising
    Cruises & All-Inclusive | Disney | Families & Groups | Weekly Column

    Disney Dream Ups the Ante for Family Cruising

    ByEileen Ogintz January 27, 2011June 28, 2023

    Other cruise lines are also catering to the growing family cruise market (more than a million kids now cruise each year) with their megaships — a smart move at a time when kids increasingly drive vacation decisions. A survey found that cruises top kids’ list of dream vacation destinations, right behind a trip to Walt Disney World.

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  • How to manage a whirlwind day at Disney World
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    How to manage a whirlwind day at Disney World

    ByEileen Ogintz January 26, 2011June 28, 2023

    Theresa Bennett and her extended family are all smiles—even as they wait 40 minutes in line at Epcot to see Soarin’ — the popular attraction that makes you feel as if you are hang-gliding over California

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  • Two days at Disney World and two on new Disney Dream
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    Two days at Disney World and two on new Disney Dream

    ByEileen Ogintz January 25, 2011June 28, 2023

    Wild Animal Trek gives you the chance to watch the cheetahs and lions through powerful binoculars, get to the edge of the river above where the crocs loll, albeit tethered to cables that keep a misstep from turning into a tragedy. Yes, we were also tethered going across the bridges

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  • Divers come from around the world to Grand Turk Island
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    Divers come from around the world to Grand Turk Island

    ByEileen Ogintz January 21, 2011June 28, 2023

    The Bohio Resort managers Ginny and Tom Allan hug us goodbye. That doesn’t happen at your typical resort hotel. We leave with Conch shells in our bags and lots of dive sites we still want to see. We’ll have to come back.

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  • When the best-laid travel plans go awry
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    When the best-laid travel plans go awry

    ByEileen Ogintz January 20, 2011June 28, 2023

    For us, that meant enjoying a quiet “staycation” after Christmas instead of taking a much-anticipated diving trip to Grand Turk Island. Though our flight was scheduled two days after the Christmas blizzard that crippled the East Coast, we thought we were good to go and left our house that morning boarding passes in hand. But in the hour it took us to get to JFK our flight was canceled and we couldn’t get another for several days. Work schedules dictated we cancel the trip.

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  • Different ways to learn to dive – cold and warm
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    Different ways to learn to dive – cold and warm

    ByEileen Ogintz January 20, 2011June 28, 2023

    For our second dive of the day, we head to the Library, so named because it is directly in front of Grand Turk’s tiny library. We dive along the famous Grand Turk Wall that drops 100 feet. It is marvelous– all varieties of fish and coral. By the end of the dive, holding the dive master’s hand, Emily is hooked and comes up out of the water smiling

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  • Fresh conch salad on the beach anyone?
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    Fresh conch salad on the beach anyone?

    ByEileen Ogintz January 19, 2011June 28, 2023

    The area east of where we staying at Bohio is apparently full of conch—our novice free divers get 10 in 20 minutes. We head to Gibb’s Cay, a tiny island where Trevor will prepare Conch Salad or Conch Ceviche while he hands out shrimp for us to feed the half dozen stingrays who swim around the beach waiting for their treat.

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  • Learning how to scuba dive on Grand Turk Island
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    Learning how to scuba dive on Grand Turk Island

    ByEileen Ogintz January 18, 2011June 28, 2023

    My daughter Mel, 19, and I have come to Grand Turk Island so that she can complete the four-day PADI course (www.padi.com) and become a certified diver, as am I. Truth be told, this was supposed to be a family trip over New Years—Mel’s older brother and dad also are divers—but a blizzard in New York derailed our plans. Rather than forgo the opportunity altogether, she and I opted to make it a shorter, girls trip

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  • A TREK TO THE THREE TOWERS
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    A TREK TO THE THREE TOWERS

    ByEileen Ogintz January 16, 2011June 28, 2023

    Our early-morning departure from Remota, smaller-than-average group size, and anticipated 7 hour hike signaled challenge ahead. It was the windiest day in Patagonia that we had seen so far. The tall grass outside of Remota was constantly being flattened by gusts of wind and huge white caps on the fjord outside our window were lapping up against the shore. “You better bring a windbreaker,” My dad told us. He was right.

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  • Adventures by Disney Takes to the Seas
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    Adventures by Disney Takes to the Seas

    ByEileen Ogintz January 13, 2011June 28, 2023

    Disney’s unique, guided, land-based tours successfully offer families the chance to explore far-flung destinations from Italy to Africa to Yellowstone National Park with itineraries that de-stress the experience for parents while offering activities guaranteed to please the kids. Now Adventures by Disney has brought the concept onboard some Disney cruises (www.disneycruise.com) in the Mediterranean and this coming summer, Alaska

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  • January is the month for you to learn a snow sport
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    January is the month for you to learn a snow sport

    ByEileen Ogintz January 10, 2011June 28, 2023

    If you thought heading to the slopes this winter would be a budget buster or no fun for mom, think again. Not only has there been so much snow, but large and small resorts across ski country are pulling out all the stops for families, featuring increased programming off the slopes as well as on, free or discounted lift tickets and even free flights.

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  • When the grandparents lead the way on a family adventure
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    When the grandparents lead the way on a family adventure

    ByEileen Ogintz January 6, 2011June 28, 2023

    Upping the adventure quotient is exactly what a growing number of well-heeled and fit grandparents are doing to gather their far-flung progeny. They’re sailing in the British Virgin Islands, hiking in Yellowstone, exploring Costa Rican rain forests, bird-watching in the Galapagos Islands, heading to Africa on safari, fishing in Alaska and even studying marine biology in Virginia, typically picking up most of the tab

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  • January is the month to learn a snow sport — here’s how and where
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    January is the month to learn a snow sport — here’s how and where

    ByEileen Ogintz December 30, 2010June 28, 2023

    No wonder I’m smiling. If you thought heading to the slopes this winter would be a budget buster or no fun for mom, think again. Large and small resorts across ski country are pulling out all the stops for families, featuring increased programming off the slopes as well as on, free or discounted lift tickets and even free flights.

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  • Something different in Orlando – an ICE show at the Gaylord Palms
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    Something different in Orlando – an ICE show at the Gaylord Palms

    ByEileen Ogintz December 28, 2010June 28, 2023

    As we were planning our trip, we decided that a day-off from Disney would be good, so that the kids could settle down and we didn’t have to fight crowds and lines all day. So, being from Colorado, we decided to go check out SNOW! and ICE! at the Gaylord Palms hotel in Orlando.

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  • Holidays for thousands derailed by the blizzard and the airlines
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    Holidays for thousands derailed by the blizzard and the airlines

    ByEileen Ogintz December 28, 2010June 28, 2023

    We were headed to the tiny island of Grand Turk and Bohio Resort www.bohioresort.com for some scuba diving. Turks and Caicos is known for their spectacular reefs and my daughter Mel had been diligently completing the required online course and hoped to join us as certified divers this trip. But I was celebrating too soon. Just before we arrived at JFK, I got a message from American Airlines that our flight had been cancelled. (Why we didn’t get the message four hours ahead, as we’d requested, I don’t know)

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  • A Special Day with Mickey and a Very Merry Christmas Party
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    A Special Day with Mickey and a Very Merry Christmas Party

    ByEileen Ogintz December 27, 2010June 28, 2023

    Day 4 in Orlando with the Sitzman family — When we were planning our Holiday vacation, we wanted to have a special, keystone event—besides, I had convinced five-year old Hannah that we weren’t going to put up a Christmas tree since I had called ahead and Mickey was going to go ahead and decorate for us.

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