Home Sweet Home

After a year of travel it will be good to come home...

and enjoy the next adventure in our family life!

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Week 52

We'll be celebrating Christmas this week...


so we'll play Santa and Mrs. Claus...

to our 3 extended families, and invite them to join us at our final destination...

HAWAII! Oahu, to be exact.

We'd definitely visit the Polynesian Cultural Center. We'd learn about the culture, history, songs, dance, and food from Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Fiji, and Tahiti/Marquesas.

We'd take a volcano tour at Hanauma Bay. We'd also see the lookout point at Nuuanu Pali.

We'd swim with the graceful dolphins.

We'd relax on the beach and soak in the scents of plumeria and hibiscus and never want to leave!

Week 51

THE PHILIPPINES!


We'd visit the ancient Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao.

And the charming Chocolate Hills of Bohol.

We'd snuggle with a tarsier, the smallest primate in the world.

We'd relax in the paradise of El Nido, Palawan.

Week 50

MALAYSIA! Truly Asia.


We'd check out the Petronas Towers and all of the modern architecture in Kuala Lumpur.

Even though ginormous statues freak me out a little, we'd visit the Batu Caves.

We'd visit the Bird Park and see hornbills and other cool birds roaming around.

We'd journey to find a rafflesia- the world's largest flower!

Bonus: SINGAPORE!

Since it's so close to Malaysia we'd visit Singapore to spend a day strolling through this sparkling clean city enjoying the modern and heritage architecture it has to offer.

Week 49

CAMBODIA!


We'd visit the famous ruins of Angkor-Wat.

We'd also visit modern temples in Wat-Phnom.

We'd feel like we were in King Louie's Court from The Jungle Book when we visit Ta-Prohm.

We'd visit the breathtaking waterfalls of Phnom Kulen.

Week 48

THAILAND!

When we visited before we saw beautiful temples of gold. Now we want to visit this temple of white- Wat Rong Khun.

We'd take an elephant trek through the ruins of Kamphaeng Phet (from the 1300's).

We'd dance in the falling waters of Khlong Lan.

We'd go for a long-tail boat tour of the limestone needle islands.

Week 47

INDIA! The place where ALL of your senses come alive!


Our sense of hearing will love the music of 415 spoken languages and dialects, but will also embrace silence at the romantic Taj Mahal.

Even though we will miss Holi (the festival of colors), our sense of sight will find lots of color in sarees, the Sri Meenakshi Temple, the Ganges River...

Our sense of touch will be delighted with intricate henna tattoos on our hands, or feet, or faces.

Both our senses of smell and taste will savor curry, saffron, cumin, garam masala- yum!

Week 46

CHINA again! (The south this time.)


We'd help out in the beautiful rice terraces, like this one in Guangxi.

We'd take a visit to Tibet and tour some of their monasteries.

We'd cruise the river in Yangshuo and see the breathtaking mountain peaks.

Of course, we'd have to visit some snuggly pandas too!

Week 45

JAPAN!


We'd visit the beautiful Himeji (Heron) Castle.

We'd see how far we could hike up Mt. Fuji (too bad we'd miss the cherry blossoms).

We'd travel to Kyoto and check out as many temples as we could, such as the Kinkaku-ji.

We'd marvel at the fashions of the traditional Geishas in Kimonos...

... and the modern Harajuku girls in Anime Cosplay.