3 Ginger Snaps

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

This is a picture of a hand craft made dress by  a Vietnamese woman. In this picture you can see that it would be very hard to make. It would take a long time to make this. Here’s a another picture.  Here’s  a picture of a Vitnamese wedding dress.  This picture makes me think about weddings.…… Continue reading Vietnamese Women’s Museum

Today we went to the women’s museum.  Right now in this blog post I’m going to tell you a little bit about the Vietnamese woman fashion. All women in vietnam were dresses.In this picture you see a lot of dresses. All these styles of dresses are worn by women today.  Most of the women in…… Continue reading Women’s fashion in Vietnam 🇻🇳 

Not every day is full of wonderful cultural experiences…

Today we went to the circus in Hanoi. At the circus, there was an elephant performing. At first I felt happy when I saw the elephant, but then I started to feel a little sad for the elephant. Then I felt really really sad for the elephant and all the hard tricks she had to do. Her…… Continue reading Comparing the elephants between the circus and elephant camp by Ruby

Awesome day cruise on Lan Ha Bay with our new friends Tim and Jane (who I can’t believe I forgot to take a picture of!) The biggest fishing village in Vietnam with 1000 people from 300 families growing sharks, grouper, and a bunch of other stuff.  Cruising through the Karst formations. It was supposed to…… Continue reading Lan Ha Bay day

According to my quick calculations we are travelling for 156 days and we are presently on day 49 making this approximately the one-third mark of our trip. It is a milestone that is both difficult and easy to believe. On one hand, look at all we have done in the time since we left Canada:…… Continue reading What does it mean to travel?

The ginger snaps just joined up! ​​