Travelling with kids is a new kind of travel. It has taken 3 years, but gone are the days of an endless checklist of popular tourist sites, monuments and churches to see, photograph and promptly forget. Now a good day means just walking, relaxing, having a picnic, or stopping at a playground for Lydia while sipping our Starbucks. Then we nap in the afternoon when the kids do. This time we were even lucky enough to have our friend Jess come along to help with the kids, allowing Brandon and I some free time alone. She made all the difference in the world. I was reminded no less than 5 times a day how blessed we were to have her with us.
It's taken some not-so-good travel experiences to get to this point. Can you believe we once tried to take our 2-year old daughter on a tour of the parliament in Budapest?!?!? We are slowly learning that this is the stuff memories are made of. Just enjoying time as a family. So the pictures we came home with are more about our experience, not the monuments of Barcelona. For that, we can always buy postcards.
It's taken some not-so-good travel experiences to get to this point. Can you believe we once tried to take our 2-year old daughter on a tour of the parliament in Budapest?!?!? We are slowly learning that this is the stuff memories are made of. Just enjoying time as a family. So the pictures we came home with are more about our experience, not the monuments of Barcelona. For that, we can always buy postcards.
Playa Barcoloneta
Playground beneath Gaudi's unfinished Sagrada Familia
Mountains of Montserrat
Flamenco Dancer
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