@Pam – ha, you are right. OK, will go change the title!

@Tyra – the parks are incredibly beautiful. And yes, we did joke about the roads to some summits being the American version of hiking. If it can’t be seen from the tour bus…it won’t be seen.

@Jodie – I generally try not to read more than one book at a time. I know some people can read multiple things simultaneously, but I find it frustrating. This was actually an issue this past month as I was making my way through Infinite Jest, but actually had to read some other books for reviewing, blurbing, interviewing the authors, etc. I basically had to finish the shorter books before I could resume Infinite Jest.

@Cynthia – fair question. It is one of the compromises I make with having four children. I want to expose my children — particularly the older ones who will really remember it — to interesting things around the world. Some of those things would be very difficult to do (along with exhausting/unpleasant) with a small child. Our upcoming trips will involve him (like Disney this winter!) and I think by a year from now he may be better able to deal with long plane flights and walking. Hiking in particular would have been almost impossible. He will only walk a little way before he needs to be carried, but at 35 lbs, carrying him in a back pack for many miles would have been hard.

I’m not surprised that your day at Disney was an incredibly fond memory from childhood. One of the reasons I do my Mommy Days each summer is to give kids time apart from their siblings. My 3-year-old is a pretty demanding child, and I spend a lot of time focused just on him because of that. Sometimes vacations are about getting to spend time with the other kids.

@Jane – thank you! It was a good time.