Tuesday morning saw us enjoying our last homestay meal- a delicious breakfast- noodles with small bits of eggs in a light tomato broth, sweet potatoes, and giant scallion pancakes- and then riding back into Beijing. After settling in at our beautiful hotel near Wafujing- the main shopping district in Beijing, -we decided to tackle the…

China! China was one of the craziest places we’ve ever been to. From the huge amounts of history to the crazy culture – we experienced it all. After a late night flight into Xi’an (and discovering we hadn’t booked a hotel car- so negotiating our way past the language barrier to get a cab)…we awoke…

Day 4 was a bit more chill as we drive back to Brisbane for a flight to our next destination- halfway up the Queensland Coast to the Whitsunday Islands.  Mom conquered her fear of prop planes- and we had fantastic views of the Queensland Coast.  From the air it becomes even more apparent- Queensland has…

After a 4 day Roblox programming camp, we ste off again- taking advantage of Singapore National Day and Eid al-Adha holidays for a 9 day adventure in Queensland Australia.  1st day was mostly travel as we arrived at 7PM in Brisbane, a very cool city of 2.5 million follks.  We found our retro apartment (in an…

So only 4 days after our return to Singapore from the US, Jay set out for 8 days of Boy Scout summer camp in Chiang Mai.  After a AM Cub Scout hike with a few monkeys, tea at TWG, and a trip back to Istana ( White House of Singapore which had cool Merlion statues…

After racing through the final 1/2 day of school and Bee and Jay somehow convincing Mom to let them ride the public bus and go to a movie with friends, we hopped aboard our 18 hour flight.. Jay and Bee cover it best on their YouTube Channel – Reporting Live From Singapore (but we did…

So our new annual traditional of taking a long weekend to celebrate Buddha’s birthday (aka Vesak Day) found us in Vietnam this year. After a welcoming Mom back from some marathon work travel, (by giving her 7 whole hours in the apartment to repack)- we headed on a short flight to Hanoi. We worked our…

That’s a really big boatToday we had a pretty early start to get to the ferry, but 1st took a few great pics of the Harbour just outside our hotel in Picton. We got to the terminal around 8:00 am. We dropped off the car, got checked in just in time for our boat ride….

Milford! Today we visited Milford Sound. We started off the day with a long drive up stopping at a few lookouts, like the mirror lake – that wasn’t a mirror because the ducks were making ripples, or a tunnel that only had one lane so we had to wait for cars going the other way,…

A Day with the Aussies On our way to New Zealand we stopped in Sydney for a long layover. After getting breakfast we walked down to the bay and we saw the Harbor Bridge and right next to it, the Opera House! The Opera House was amazing because nobody realizes that the tiles on it…