So it turns out that English isn’t the only language spoken in the world. While you may know this in your head, you really don’t know it in your heart of hearts until you’ve been shopping in a European supermarket. We were travelling on a budget, so there was certainly no sitting at restaurants and pointing to the menu and hoping for the best. … How many kids did we bring again? Memoirs of our European adventure – PART THREE
So it turns out that English isn’t the only language spoken in the world. While you may know this in your head, you really don’t know it in your heart of hearts until you’ve been shopping in a European supermarket. We were travelling on a budget, so there was certainly no sitting at restaurants and pointing to the menu and hoping for the best. … 
So here we were, all eight of us, finally in Amsterdam. Tired, jetlagged, cold, and did I mention tired? We’d flown roughly 24 hours and managed to completely mess up our sleep/wake cycles. So what was 4pm actually felt more like 2am. … 
It seemed like the world’s biggest pipe dream, at the time, but I’m kind of a ‘dream big’ type of girl. Paul and I had already been on a couple of European adventures without the kids, photographing weddings. Every time we’d see something magical, interesting or even just kind of stinky, we wished we had the kids there to share it with us. …