Thursday, May 31, 2012

Oh The Places You'll Go

Do you have a family travel tradition? Our family likes to collect magnets of the places we have visited. Magnets may seem incredibly cheesy, however, I can't help but smile, each time I reach for the refrigerator door.  Instantly, I am taken back to a moment in time where we laughed, relaxed, went sightseeing and created memories.

Here are just a few from our collection:







These magnets represent trips to: Las Vegas, Cozumel, Kauai, Hearst Castle, Vancouver Island, Disneyland, Disney World, Washington D.C., Paris and Turks &Caicos.

Sadly, we have visited multiple other locations, but for some reason, didn't come home with a cheesy memento. If we ever go back, you better believe we will be buying a magnet!

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11 comments:

  1. I keep all of my "cheesy" vacation magnets on my washing machine...it takes some of the drudgery out of laundry duties!

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  2. I'm all about the cheesy reminders of stuff. I've got about 50 shot glasses of places I've been. They take up room, and you can't really display them in a "nice" way....but they are cheap, and I love looking through them.

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  3. We collect magnets too! Sometimes we mix it up and get an ornament to hang on our Christmas tree. I love having some sort of reminder of places we've gone to visit and we've loved!

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  4. I've always collected postcards and keep them in an album--less space! We usually get one Christmas ornament per trip and we also collect the smashed pennies!

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  5. We collect magnets too! I started to pick up Christmas ornaments too, but I'm not very good at remembering that one yet :)

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  6. We do Christmas ornaments...every time we go somewhere new we get one. It makes decorating the tree so fun!

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  7. This is a great post! We always get Christmas ornaments. I think it's weird to have random ornaments on our tree (when the rest of it is covered in lenox and crystal decorations), but I think if my mom would have a separate vacation ornament tree it would be cool. My parents started from when they honeymooned in Hawaii. I also used to collect spoons and my brother collected bells when we traveled (our grandparents got us started on that). They aren't very unique though. That's why I like magnets or ornaments more! Do your girls each get something of their own to collect too?

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  8. I love that pic of you and the hubs in the Mouse ears! ahhh. Can I come with next time you go to Disney? ;)

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  9. We typically buy a really bad coffee mug whenever we travel out of state. Though have forgotten in some states and kinda kick ourselves afterward. It is funny to look at them again - and roll your eyes because they're THAT bad. But we always laugh hysterically picking them out.

    My daughters buy a patch they put on their backpacks every time they travel too. Pretty cute.

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  10. That's such a great idea! Wonderful way to relive your happy times while you're getting milk out of the fridge.

    Wish I'd thought of it!

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