Soaking up the family holiday spirit at a theme park

Soaking up the family holiday spirit at a theme park

Across the country, theme parks are adding new and bigger holiday attractions every year, enticing more and more families to come through the gates, glad to forsake holiday shopping and cooking for a few hours, even though it can be a costly afternoon or evening.

Kids rule at London’s newly expanded Imperial War Museum

Kids rule at London’s newly expanded Imperial War Museum

Follow the local kids. That’s a good plan when you are exploring a new city with your gang. That’s what we did recently at the newly expanded Imperial War Museum in London, which was teeming with enthusiastic British families.

To Deer Valley, where guests say ‘no snowboarders!’

To Deer Valley, where guests say ‘no snowboarders!’

Instead of frustrating hours at the airport, we spent a blue sky day on Deer Valley’s famously groomed slopes, stopping for an excellent lunch. (Deer Valley is as famous for its eats as it is for its grooming and customer service.)