Scandinavia Winter Adventure (15 - 28 November 2012)

Last month, mommy and daddy went for honeymoon making sibling for Richie hehe...
We chose to go to scandinavia, northern Europe to hunt Aurora borealis as well as experiencing life as danish, swedish, finnish and sami.
The trip went well, we enjoyed it very much and it's unforgettable experience.
The temperature was between -2 to 2 deg, luckily we have heavily prepared for the gear.

We loved the arctic scenery with snow every where, it's so amazing as well as the life of sami people.
How the people, animals and plants are able to survive in extremely harsh cold really taught us something
Our journey to chase the aurora borealis was another journey of faith. We've learned how to trust the guide as reflection how we should trust our God as the Guide of our life.

Like daddy said, once it was a dream now it's part of our life story. We'd love to share this experience with Richie in times to come.
We also love to bring our family together to celebrate Christmas in Santa Claus homeland at Rovaniemi.
Hopefully our dream can come true again in another 3 years.

hunting aurora @ Tromso

Nyhavn @ Copenhagen

Ridderholmen @ Stockholm

Sibelius Monument @ Helsinki

Glass Igloo @ Ivalo

meet Santa @ Rovaniemi

Last Stop : Plaisir and Surrounding

While daddy was out, we spent our time relaxing at oma's house and explore the surrounding. We went to Commercial centre where they were Ikea, Toy's R us, Auchan (like Giant supermarket) and we went to Chateau du Plaisir and its forest where King of France went for hunting last time.

Third Stop : Versailles Garden

The next stop was Versailles Garden, we wanted to bring Richie to see the Antoinette farmyard, unfortunately we took the wrong gate which closed and we rushed for the time so we only managed to see the garden, some sheeps by riding buggy again.

hamlet at versailles

Petit Trianon

Riding buggy

Versailles Grand Canal

Second Stop : Exploring Paris

Even though we have explored Paris landmarks before, we'd love to visit again like Notredame, Eiffel Tower,  Arc De Triomphe, etc
Started with La Defense, we haven't been there before and since our train passed by, we decided to take a look and voila, there's christmas market waiting for us too.

Then, the next day, we visited Notredame, eiffel Tower, Arc De Triomphe and Champ Elysee.

Grande Arc, La Defense

Christmas Market at La Defense

Galleries Lafayette

Notredame

Eiffel at night

Arc De Triomphe

First stop : Disneyland Paris

Our first journey was Disneyland Paris, we booked 3D2N at Santa Fe Hotel, Disneyland Paris.

The hotel and rooms were Mexico Style and we had 3 days ticket to both park : Disney park and walt disney studio.

On the first day of our arrival, we were very tired so once we checked in we went to sleep to recharge energy for the next day.

On the second day, it was drizzling and we still went ahead with our plan to explore Disney Park.

The Park was huge and we couldn't finish within a day though. We had fun there even though it's cold because of the rain 

On the last day of our visit, we went to Walt Disney Studio and spent half day there, the park was little smaller than Disney Park and the weather was nice too eventhough it's drizzling for about an hour.

Richie had great time there and he enjoyed most meeting Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Pluto and he's so brave taking picture alone with those characters.

santa fe hotel

welcome to santa fe hotel

Winter Wonderland in Paris (2 - 12 December 2011)

We went to Paris early christmas this year. It was wonderful and fun holiday.
It was all starting on 1st December when we flied midnite to Paris.
Richie was asleep on the way to the airport and woke up just before boarding.
He had 6 hours sleep out 14 hours journey and he's not cranky at all, he munched when he had nothing to do in the plane hehe...
And when we landed, he slept again for 1.5 hours until we were waiting for our baggage

We stayed at mommy's aunt place in suburb Paris and we took more than 2 hours journey with train and carried our heavy baggage, fortunately there were many nice people in Paris helped us without our asking. They really cared about mom and kid particularly.

To be continued

Take a break from 2 - 12 december

Richie will take holiday with mommy and daddy to Paris. This is the first time he will take long haul flight.
Mommy's excited and nervous too hopefully everything is going smooth and well.
And we can have fun together there !

Off the blog from now till 12 December and will update again once we are back

Back to real life

After taking long break for about 2 weeks, mommy and daddy landed safely at Changi on Saturday night
Richie has slept already when both of us arrived at home.
He's getting bigger and smarter while mommy and daddy gone

We enjoyed our trip, privacy and intimacy together as if we were in courtship. We fall in love to each other again and the feeling was great. Few days before our departure to Singapore we already missed Richie and looking forward meeting him as when we were looking forward seeing him as newborn baby

I guessed we made the right decision to take the break from our daily activities and enjoyed "our" time together as a couple and we came back again to reality, we had more spirit and energy to continue our journey as family
Well, not sure whether we could do it again in the future, 'cos Richie won't want to be left behind again

Perhaps when he's grown up then we will travel again and enjoy our time as couple

PS : mom and daddy's honeymoon pictures Euro Trip has been uploaded at davinindah.multiply.com