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  • How Epic Road Trips are Made

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    Last year, in the middle of a road trip, we asked the kids where they wanted to go and flipped a coin to choose the destination. I can’t remember which kid chose which, but one wanted to go to the ocean and one wanted to go back, closer to home, to the ice fields. The

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  • Road Trippin’ - What to do in Revelstoke with Kids

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    Weekend road trips where you can camp, find an inexpensive cabin and discover something new are what we live for. Finding a new destination to explore over the summer months just got easier, because we’re sharing a few reasons that you’re going to want to add Revelstoke to your list of places to explore this summer

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  • Five Epic Summer Adventures We’re Planning

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    When it comes to summer adventures, we’ve usually got a full schedule. This summer is no different, with a long list of places we want to go, new terrain we want to explore, and a long list of adventures to tackle while the summer is warm. Last year, with a three year old that preferred

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  • 5 Alberta Campgrounds Every Kid Should Experience in their Childhood

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    Camping season (and booking campsite season) is right around the corner. If you’re in the market for adventure this summer, we’re sharing some of our favourite campgrounds that kids should experience at least once in their childhood, right here: Dinosaur Provincial Park You’re driving, it’s flat prairie - and then everything changes. The kids take

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  • Bucket List: Jasper in January Making Winter Traditions

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    Jasper in January is one of those traditions you’ve got to make happen at least once in a childhood. Exploring with the kids, making Caban a sucre on a frozen Pyramid Lake during winterfest, feeling the rush of the wind in their face behind a team of dogs, tucked warm into a dogsled, and warming

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  • Alberta Bucket List: Christmas Parade in the Mountains

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    We spent a weekend in December last year in the mountains, just in time to catch a Christmas parade in Banff. It was a wonderful atmosphere with the local Santa Clause Parade of Lights, amidst the crowds in for the weekend and shopping for at treat after the parade has finished. The best part? We

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  • Road Trippin’: White Rock, BC

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    On a whim this year, during a road trip to Revelstoke, we flipped a coin to decide between the ice fields, where Olivia wanted to go - and the ocean, where Violet wanted to go. Violet won, and we made our way through to the scenic route of Vancouver. We arrived a half day later,

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  • Three Kid-Friendly Florida Vacations

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    Planning a family holiday can at times be testing as not only do you have to look for a destination that will satisfy everyone’s expectations, but you also have to worry about your budget. Booking last minute holidays, however, can at times be a great way to save money, and there are fewer destinations that will satisfy the

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  • See a Giant Pumpkin at the Smoky Lake Pumpkin Festival - October 2-4

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    With a petting zoo, mini midway, food, face painting and the chance to touch a giant pumpkin, Smoky Lake should be on your list of adventures to have with the kids during Fall in Alberta. Located just over an hour outside of Edmonton, it’s a fun weekend day trip to experience a giant pumpkin - that’s even

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  • Jasper Dark Sky Festival (with Kids) #AlbertaBucketList

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    Jasper’s Dark Sky invites astronomers at every level to gaze upon the wonder of one of the world’s largest dark sky preserves. As daylight hours begin to recede, October is the ideal time to celebrate the skies with the annual Jasper Dark Sky Festival, an ever-growing festival aimed at connecting all ages to our universe and

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  • Find Childhood Magic and #RediscoverNature with These Geocaching Tips

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    When you’re geocaching, you’re essentially hunting for treasure - called a ‘cache’. It could be a simple list of people that have found the cache before you, a cache of small toys and trinkets that are hidden for you to find, trade and replace with small trinkets of your own, or something to open, find

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  • Get Outside on Rediscover Nature Day

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    In the summer, it’s easy to get outside. So easy in fact, we had no problem crossing off every single item on our Summer Bucket list to rediscover nature. We discovered new trails, we dipped our feet in the ocean, we stargazed in skies without light pollution - inspired by this eye opening video where

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