Travel

Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.

August 3, 2025

Super good soft serve Maple Creamie at Red Barn Ice Cream. 🍦

Hand holding a soft-serve vanilla maple ice cream cone in a Joy cone wrapper at Red Barn Ice Cream shop

August 3, 2025

Blending my smoothie by bike at the Stowe Farmers Market this morning.

August 3, 2025

POAP 7402510 at Magnifico at Escaparium 🎪.

August 2, 2025

QMSB Trip - Day 8

Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 4. Saturday and coffee shops downtown open later. Find Columbuse Cafe open at 7am. The WiFi is good and appreciate them being open. Transfer to Structure Coffee when open at 8am. Pack up and check out of Sonder. Drive to Laval for our long …

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August 2, 2025

Magnifico at Escaparium

Today we did the World’s #1 Escape Room according to TERPECA 2024 — Magnifico! It was an incredible experience. Unlike anything we’ve ever done before. Jamie Unlike any escape rooms experience I’ve ever imagined. The depth of the story drew us in right away. I wanted the story to …

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August 1, 2025

QMSB Trip - Day 7

Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 3. I go to Structure Coffee for some delicious coffee and time to catch up on blog. Tammy off on a morning run. Max and Nora join for some coffee at Structure. Mazie, Tammy, and I go to bakery. Tyler meets up with us and runs off to get crepes. …

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August 1, 2025

Delightful evening watching Cirque du Soleil’s LUZIA in Montreal, the home of Cirque.

Four people smile for a selfie in front of the Cirque du Soleil LUZIA sign and big top tents in Montreal.

Two people standing in front of the illuminated LUZIA sign outside the Cirque du Soleil big top tent in Montreal

Cirque du Soleil LUZIA stage surrounded by yellow flowers with performers in costume and a large glowing blue disc backdrop

Group of a dozen people smiling for a selfie outside the blue-and-white striped Cirque du Soleil big top at night in Montreal.

August 1, 2025

We all had a great time making bagels at The Bagel Class today. We learned how to make Montreal style bagels from scratch and had a few at the end. Yum! 🥯

Group of people wearing aprons gathered around an instructor demonstrating bagel-making in a kitchen classroom

Group of adults and children in aprons standing along a long wooden table with stainless steel mixing bowls at a bagel-making class

Small ball of bagel dough resting in a stainless steel mixing bowl on a wooden surface.

Two people wearing The Bagel Class aprons pose for a selfie in a bright cooking studio with other participants in the background.

Two smiling teens wearing cream-colored Bagel Class aprons stand together indoors.

August 1, 2025

Great time on the Jetboat in Montreal!

July 31, 2025

QMSB Trip - Day 6

Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 2. Max and I walk to Structure Coffee for a delicious Cortado and light roast to start the day. Tammy, Tyler, and Levi join us and walk to Olive+Gourmando for a pastry. We all head to Montreal on Wheels to rent bikes and take a private guided …

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