We Spent the day exploring one of Thailand’s finest snorkelling destinations: Kho Rok.  Longtail Boatride and morning nap to the destination took 90mins.  Giant Monitor Lizard the size of Charlotte at morning pee break.  The toothbrush keeping the engine running.  Spectacular clear turquoise water to explore.  Private beach lunch with 1000s of hermit crabs.  We…… Continue reading Koh Rok

Happy birthday Hil. One roll down. Five to go.

Since the time that I first started writing this blog back when Arden was a baby there have been many great moments that I have been fortunate enough to capture with a photo. Some of them have made the blog. Many of them have not. All of them have been taken on an iPhone. And…… Continue reading Arden’s first dive

March 19 is Uncle Boots’ birthday and thus today we celebrated big time! Three scooters. 7 helmets. 1 second breakfast of incredible fruit smoothies. 1 very tasty Thai lunch at a table beside the ocean. 14 scorched foot soles – the sand was so hot. 1 massage. 1 very leisurely post lunch swim – in…… Continue reading Scoots for Boots

From 1984 to 1986 my family lived in a brand new suburb of Edmonton, Alberta. I have many great memories from those two years – including memories from some Gulyas family adventures not totally dissimilar to the one we are on right now. We made multiple trips into the Rocky Mountains to explore Banff, Jasper,…… Continue reading March 18, 2017

Amazing week so far with Aunt Cate and Uncle Boots. The ginger snaps are so excited to have some extra family members here and we are all soaking up the attention. We headed out tonight to go to a restaurant and when we arrived they were just shutting down because they had run out of…… Continue reading Street feast

I Ruby went to the jade factory. Jade is very delicate. Jade also comes in many different colours purple, red, green, white, gold, and blue. There are many different kinds of jade. The emerald green is most expensive.  Carving  jade is a skill passed from generation to generation. It takes a lot of time to…… Continue reading Jade! By Ruby

Hil is a wizard on trip advisor. In fact, when it comes to finding places to eat that are good for the kids, good for the budget, and good for our bellies, she hasn’t missed yet. And tonight’s dinner was no exception.  We spent the morning of today on a bike tour of Bangkok. It…… Continue reading New food event

This thought has run through my head many times since we arrived in Asia. There are no limits here. The culture is Asia seems to be to try anything once, to innovate and reinvent constantly, and to celebrate the diversity that life has to offer through enthusiastic participation whenever possible.  Today, Hil took the kids…… Continue reading And now I’ve seen everything…

We have left Vietnam and we were sad to go. It was such an inspiring country: gritty, industrious, historic, tasty, innovative. Our last five days in Ha Noi were very memorable from the bakery we visited around the corner from our Air B and B where the baker scolded me because Arden didn’t have a…… Continue reading Sky high in Bangkok