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When in Chiang Mai, ride elephants! On our way out to the Blue Elephant tour grounds, we stopped at a market on the outskirts of Chiang Mai to buy some exotic fruits for our snacks. Once we arrived about an hour outside of Chiang Mai, …
We were so excited to finally be off the bus, out of the back of the pick up truck, and in the peaceful refuge of the Amata Lanna hotel in Chiang Mai. What Aliya was most excited about was finally seeing her good friend, Sofia! …
After a couple days in Chiang Rai, we woke up early, had a yummy breakfast buffet at Le Meridien hotel and then went down to an outdoor shack by the Kok River to haggle our way onto a wooden boat that would take us to Tha …
The volcano eruptions on Sumatra finally settled down enough for our flight to take off from Bali to Bangkok. We had an amazing Thai adventure of canal tours, temples, markets, elephant riding, flying gibbons, and seeing friends. After a long ride from the airport to …
After an exciting 5 days in Borneo, we arrived in Bali on July 7. Cristina’s amazing driver, Kumang, picked us up and took us to Villa Zen in Canggu, so the kids could recover from the virus they picked up in Borneo. Our first day, …
On Tuesday, we moved out of our Hong Kong apartment; and, two days later, we were on a flight to Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. While watching the safety briefing on our DragonAir flight to Kota Kinabalu, Asher exclaimed, “Hey, they copied the safety video from Cathay …
Well, it’s official: we moved out of our apartment at 80 Robinson Road on Tuesday June 30! We are really going to miss passing by those smiling porters as we pull up to the entrance of Block 2. Walking through our brightly lit lobby: Riding …
Three days after Aliya and Asher’s school year ended at the Canadian International School in Hong Kong, we hopped on a plane on June 15th to Haneda Airport for a 2 week holiday in Japan. Fortunately, Raquel had found an amazing deal that gave us 2 …
Aliya and Ben went to their first Daddy Daughter Ball in Hong Kong at the Conrad Hotel on June 6th. It was a charity ball to help the Child Development Centre of Hong Kong. The theme was Arabian Nights! Aliya and Ben were guests of …
Singapore is like a multicultural (Chinese, Malay, Indians, and Expats), modern, clean metropolis, rich in activities for kids, but somehow a bit sterile or at least lacking the gritty, rough around the edges, mystery behind every corner nature of Hong Kong. It is also incredibly …