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  • On Kauai and more adventures
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    On Kauai and more adventures

    ByEileen Ogintz September 15, 2010June 28, 2023

    Not bad for a morning on vacation. Other adventures include the chance to paddle along the Na Pali Coast along 2,000 foot sea cliffs, through sea caves, bike down Waimea Canyon, paddle the Wailua River or a kayak trip along with a zip line adventure.

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  • Exploring botanicals and turtle nests of Kauai
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    Exploring botanicals and turtle nests of Kauai

    ByEileen Ogintz September 14, 2010June 29, 2023

    It turns out that of all the endangered species of plants in the United States, two thirds are from Hawaii, and this research effort is designed to help these plants once again flourish

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  • A week in Hawaii with the girls
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    A week in Hawaii with the girls

    ByEileen Ogintz September 13, 2010June 28, 2023

    I’m traveling with my two daughters, Reggie and Melanie, my 15-year-old cousin Eva Weinberg, and my best friend, JoAnne Cagen. It is our last gasp of summer before the girls scatter back across the country to jobs in San Francisco, school in Colorado and Connecticut. The trip is especially poignant for JoAnne.

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  • Grown Ups Have as Much Fun Aboard the Disney Magic as the Kids
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    Grown Ups Have as Much Fun Aboard the Disney Magic as the Kids

    ByEileen Ogintz September 9, 2010June 28, 2023

    In just one day at sea, you could go from a sommelier selection tasting at 12:30 to a martini tasting at 2:30 and the mixology seminar at three. At four there’s a tequila seminar and at 10:30 a cognac tasting, followed by adult versions of onboard entertainment — comedians, magicians, musicians.

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  • On Disney Magic — no one is Grumpy or Sleepy
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    On Disney Magic — no one is Grumpy or Sleepy

    ByEileen Ogintz September 8, 2010June 28, 2023

    As we near the end of our 11 day voyage, I’m more convinced more than ever that there can’t be an easier way to introduce children to new cultures and new places. There’s no packing and unpacking every day, no navigating unfamiliar cities with bored kids, no trying to find them something they’ll eat on a menu in a foreign language.

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  • Celebrating with the little general in Corsica
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    Celebrating with the little general in Corsica

    ByEileen Ogintz September 7, 2010June 28, 2023

    The Disney Magic is at Ajaccio Corsica on Napoleon Bonaparte’s Birthday- August 15. So there will be fireworks, music and plenty of celebrating.

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  • Taking the Kids featured in Associated Press Article Traveling with College-Bound Kids
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    Taking the Kids featured in Associated Press Article Traveling with College-Bound Kids

    ByEileen Ogintz September 7, 2010June 28, 2023

    Eileen’s experience with traveling with older children was featured in this Associated Press article about traveling with a college-bound student.

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  • Fall is a great time to visit the Smithsonian Museums
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    Fall is a great time to visit the Smithsonian Museums

    ByEileen Ogintz September 6, 2010June 28, 2023

    Where else can you hold a hissing cockroach, hang on to a “shooting star” (actually a 4.5 billion year old meteorite), use real bones to solve a mystery CSI-style or, as I did, see what you’d look like as an early human

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  • Pasta making in Tuscany
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    Pasta making in Tuscany

    ByEileen Ogintz September 6, 2010June 28, 2023

    We’re at a restored picture-perfect farmhouse up in the hills of Lucca on the vineyard and olive groves that are owned by Piero Tartagini and Francesca Pardini, taking a cooking lesson from Zeela Rubenstein and her husband Mauro Gehigani

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  • A massive kitchen at sea: Disney Magic
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    A massive kitchen at sea: Disney Magic

    ByEileen Ogintz September 3, 2010June 28, 2023

    The 120 cooks, 48 stewards and 10 storekeepers on board the Disney Magic aim to make sure you’re not. How much weight you’ll gain is another story.

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