Gretchen Fawn Photo - part of the Snoqualmie Moms Support Collective

I met Alaina Bos a few weeks ago at Restart, Creative Live. We were both in the audience. We sat at the table and got acquainted with the usual questions. I immediately felt comfortable talking to Alaina and her big smile kept me talking. Well, I love to talk, so that helped too! Anyway, she asked the question today about where we love to travel the most in Europe. I immediately wanted to have a pity party that I hadn't been to Europe, but instead, I'll turn it into a blog post and make the best of it! You can see her fun picture of her favorite place here: Alaina's Favorite Place in Europe  As for me, you will have to take a look at my pinterest board to get an idea of where I dream of going. The basic criteria include, warm, water, beach, good food and relaxation. These will change, I'm sure, but take a peek and see my dreams! Gretchen's Vacation Dreams  And as always, drop me a note and tell me where I must go. I'll add your ideas to my dream file and my p...

Oh Canada, Oh Canada!!! On a recent trip up North, we were able to enter into Canada with our handy new passports! Why does it seem scary to cross the border? We drove up to the little station with passports in the glove box, we were getting nearer I started to have a little panic, "Are they really in there? Do I have fruit that won't be allowed?" Silly, it was totally fine, they asked what we were doing there and how long we'd stay as usual. They did give our three kids a look down and wanted to know why they weren't in school, but other than that, it was no problem.  After calming down, we careened down the sunny road in our little white prius, past the blueberry bushes with the empty red branches, and into a new place! Vancouver. It was a little farther than I realized from the border, but in about half hour we entered the city. We had to find a place to meet up with Kel and Whitney, friends from reSTARt, so being Seattlites, we agreed to go to Starbucks of co...