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  • Day One of a 12-day idyll through French Polynesia
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    Day One of a 12-day idyll through French Polynesia

    ByAndy Yemma July 5, 2009November 10, 2025

    DAY ONE (June 25, 2009) — Our captain is straight out of central casting — or a Gaugin painting. He’s tall with a big smile,…

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  • A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE AT DISNEYLAND
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    A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE AT DISNEYLAND

    ByEileen Ogintz July 4, 2009July 9, 2021

    The kids, three-D glasses on, are laughing at the Muppets very funny antics and all of the 3-D Special effects at the Muppet Show at Disney’s California Adventure. But these two kids aren’t four. They’re 18 — newly minted high school graduates. Yet they are having as much fun at California Adventure and later at the iconic Disneyland (which opened in 1955) as any kid.

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  • Meeting Up with Shaun White at Skateboard Camp in the Cayman Islands
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    Meeting Up with Shaun White at Skateboard Camp in the Cayman Islands

    ByEileen Ogintz June 28, 2009June 28, 2023

    The 22-year-old champion skateboarder and snowboarder has come down to Grand Cayman, his parents and sister in tow, to inaugurate Skate Cayman

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  • Taking the kids camping
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    Taking the kids camping

    ByEileen Ogintz June 21, 2009September 11, 2025

    Often families say the things that went wrong on trips are as memorable as what went right and that’s certainly true when you are camping and so completely out of your comfort zone

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  • Learning New Tricks at Caribbean Resorts
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    Learning New Tricks at Caribbean Resorts

    ByAndy Yemma June 14, 2009November 10, 2025

    This summer, whether you want to learn to dive with your tween or snorkel with your kindergartner, teach your grade-schooler to sail or fly on a trapeze, you’ll find plenty of opportunities at Caribbean resorts — at prices that are surprisingly affordable.

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  • A SNORKLERS AND STINGRAY-LOVERS PARADISE
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    A SNORKLERS AND STINGRAY-LOVERS PARADISE

    ByEileen Ogintz June 14, 2009July 7, 2021

    DAY FOUR (June 14, 2009) — Ready to kiss a Stingray? Eight year old Timmy and 13 year old Miles Singer are game but 12…

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  • SKATEBOARDING WITH A CHAMPION
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    SKATEBOARDING WITH A CHAMPION

    ByEileen Ogintz June 13, 2009June 28, 2023

    Douglas Cameron, the Canadian who manages the park and oversees the camp — just in its second year — says it’s as much for local kids as visitors. It has 64,000 square feet of ledges, boxes, v-hips, banks and stairs and half pipes, which to the uninitiated look like a lot of hills built into the cement.

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  • CHECKING OUT THE BEACHES AND THE RESCUED IGUANAS
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    CHECKING OUT THE BEACHES AND THE RESCUED IGUANAS

    ByEileen Ogintz June 13, 2009July 17, 2021

    DAY THREE (June 13, 2009) — Finally, a Caribbean beach that’s everything a Caribbean beach should be — quaint, with hammocks strung in the palm…

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  • TO THE CAYMAN ISLANDS WITH TWO SKATEBOARDERS
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    TO THE CAYMAN ISLANDS WITH TWO SKATEBOARDERS

    ByEileen Ogintz June 12, 2009July 17, 2021

    The skate park is amazing — all kinds of dips, jumps — the boys got there around one and didn’t quit until it got dark just after 7 pm. (More about the camp tomorrow).

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  • Kansas City here we come
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    Kansas City here we come

    ByEileen Ogintz June 7, 2009June 28, 2023

    This summer, when we’re all watching our vacation budgets so carefully, let’s remember there is a lot to see and do wherever you live — and those cities — large and small — want and need your business as much as far flung destinations.

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