Our Summer 2018 Plans

I’ve mentioned a couple of times on my Instagram what our plans are for the summer, but I thought it would be fun to write it all out in one place. While we haven’t completely nailed down all the details … Read More

A Quick Vancouver Girls’ Weekend

Late last year, I was texting with a couple of friends and we decided we should take a girls’ trip in 2018. We sort of threw around a few dates and locations, but never really confirmed anything. Then in January, … Read More

Bay Area: Mori Point

A few weeks ago, we decided to check out Mori Point in Pacifica, CA. It boasts a gorgeous hike right along the coast south of San Francisco, and a friend had mentioned it was kid-friendly (a friend who was sadly … Read More

3 Days in Amsterdam (with Kids!)

This post was updated May 2024. In September of 2014, we traveled around Greece, Turkey, Jordan, and Israel for nearly a month. Our return flights from Tel Aviv had a stopover in Amsterdam, and we could stay up to a … Read More

I’m excited to share this story from a wonderful old friend. I especially love it because I feel like the French – especially Parisians – tend to get a bad rap for being rude and unaccommodating. But having studied abroad there, I always found them to be kind and helpful, and this epitomizes the goodness of people everywhere.
“I had been backpacking through Europe with friends for 3 weeks. We were tired and ready to go home. We took a taxi to the airport in Paris. Side note – it took us over an hour to get a taxi, which didn’t help our moods at all! Our driver didn’t speak any English at all. We stop at a red light, and the driver turns around and says something to us (my 2 semesters of French were not useful here).
Then he LEAVES THE CAR and he goes into the market on the corner. The light turns green and people were honking at us and we had no idea what to do. We were freaking out that he just abandoned us. About 2 minutes later he returns with a Coke for all of us. It was when Coke was putting names on the cans. All of our cans said “pote,” which is “buddy” in French. Totally turned our day around and made an awesome memory!”
Big thanks to @trickynicky821 for sharing.
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