BASED IN IRWIN, PA
serving the Pittsburgh, PA area
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I have lived in the Pittsburgh area for (almost) my entire life and I have NEVER been to Sandcastle, Pittsburgh’s “Hometown Waterpark”, until this past weekend!Since we have Platinum season passes with Kennywood Park this year, admission into Sandcastle is included, so we figured it was high-time we checked our local waterpark out! Sandcastle is...
Last spring, when we went to Florida for the week, the highlight of our vacation was our time at Sea World (I mean, there were a LOT of highlights, but we really really had a wonderful time at Sea World – so much so that we rearranged our trip so that it would be how...
It’s been a full month since we took our “big” Florida vacation (insert all of the “time-flies” and “take me back” sentiments here).At the end of April, we drove the 15 hours from Pennsylvania down to Florida.We visited Disney Springs, Sea World Orlando, Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Busch Gardens Tampa, and Carowinds (on...
Summer has officially returned to Pittsburgh, PA because Sunday was our first visit back to Kennywood of the 2022 season!(Okay, to be technical, Derrick & Braelynn did go to Kennywood for passholder-preview-day a few weeks ago, but Leander & I were unable to go because he was sick. It was a cold, rainy, gross day...
This isn’t the first time I’ve posted about the Rock Maze, but it’s such a hidden gem, it deserves talking about more than just one time! And this time, I’ve got a VIDEO (which is obviously better). WHAT IS THE ROCK MAZE? The Rock Maze is a hiking trail located in Garrett State Forest (the...
Hi! I'm Kara!
Welcome to my blog!
I am a full time engagement & wedding photographer based in Irwin, PA & I love to write!
I blog about 3 main topics:
•the beautiful love stories that I capture with my camera
•our adventures visiting different amusement parks for my husband's YouTube channel
•and the every day, crazy life as a family of 4.
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[…] Last weekend was Memorial Day, and normally, we’d be at the Lake House. Since Derrick’s parents were coming for part of the weekend though, we stayed home.We’d had an absolutely exhausting week last week, so by the time Sunday rolled around, all we wanted to do was take a nap – and we did.But on Monday, we wanted to go DO something! So, we decided to do something new – something we’ve never done before! We went to Sandcastle – Pittsburgh’s very own waterpark! Believe it or not, we’ve never been to Sandcastle before – even though it’s a sister park of Kennywood and Idlewild. We have Platinum passes with Kennywood this year though, so that means we can get into Sandcastle for free – so we decided to go on Monday. We knew it would be busy, being a holiday, but we decided to give it a go regardless.We only stayed for a few hours – it’s a tiny little waterpark, so we did everything we wanted to do and then got out of there as the crowds were still pouring in (it was getting quite crazy). We had a lot of fun though – the kids had a blast!(If you missed it, I vlogged about our day here!) […]