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Can Christmas shopping be fun and even relaxing? My answer is yes! You might be wondering how this is possible. The biggest Christmas shopping stresses are traffic, parking, finding the right gifts and fitting it all in to your busy schedule, right? Exhausting. My best friend and I had the opportunity to try the "Shop and Stay" package at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue, and believe we have found the key to making Christmas shopping a great experience. 
We found Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to be the perfect starting point for our family vacation to the beautiful Alberta province. Canada's festival city welcomes families the entire year through with thriving arts and festivals attracting visiting families from around the world.
Bainbridge Island and the Kitsap Peninsula offer so much to vacationing families that we were immensely glad we had scheduled a tour with Kitsap Tours to get a real taste and overview of the area's bounty. Kitsap Tours will even pick you up from the ferry, taking care of all the details. Jim and Jean Boyle offer several different tours throughout the week and you cannot go wrong with any of them.
My latest venture with three kids in tow was to Mammoth, a five hour drive north east of Los Angeles. We spent four days last week hiking, mountain biking, climbing, fishing, boating.. Oh and bear spotting.
What could be more fun and unique for a vacationing family than a serene kayak trip on Lake Tahoe, paddling from lodge to lodge? The Tahoe Adventure Company is offering multi-day Lodge to Lodge Kayak Get-Away packages on the West, North and East shores of Lake Tahoe along the scenic Lake Tahoe Water Trail, this Autumn. Our Sacramento area family has kayaked with them several times and it was nothing less than spectacular.
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