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Finland: Christmas for Thanksgiving
Everything about Rovaniemi, Finland, is magical. It’s the only word for it. This short three-day trip was worth every penny for us. When you step off the plane and enter the airport to collect your bags, there is a Santa sled and eight tiny reindeer overhead. Luckily, we were there over Thanksgiving break in 2017. I was just a few months pregnant with our baby girl – big enough to not fit in the snow pants I had just bought, but luckily not big enough to not fit into my husband’s snow pants. My poor husband ended up wearing two pairs of sweatpants for the rest of the trip to…
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Bali Part 1: Beach Bali
PartyofSix: Bali was supposed to be our inaugural #FourSixTwelve trip (see Our Story for more information) in August of 2019. We choose to go in August because it’s part of the shoulder season (just before or after the highest tourism season) in Bali; we love the shoulder seasons. We were traveling from Frankfurt, so we were lucky enough to manage a six-hour flight to Dubai, then an eight-hour flight on to Bali. The kids mostly slept on the way to Dubai and used their tablets or Nintendo DSs on the second flight. That being said, lest you think we had it easy, one of them woke up on our descent…