Taipei, Taiwan (Dec 2016)

JJ in TPE (22nd – 28th Dec 2016)

Type: Free & Easy – Littl’ Tots/Kiddy Itinerary

Day -1

Daddy J slides in to our bedroom with his usual rhetoric “LIGHTS-OUT-kids-hush-now-please-sleep-early-flight-tomorrow-no-story-time-tonight” yadda yadda; and we try hard to fall asleep, with him rattling on his usual from-memory or made-up story, and soon dozing off with Mommy Koa and Elsa…

SQ878 gets into TPE slightly past 6pm and we’re quickly tucked into a shuttle bus headed 1.5hours East towards Toucheng township. Its getting dark early since its Winter, and we doze off in the bumpy bus ride towards our destination.

D1 – Yilan/Touceng Farm

We have a quick barbeque dinner and head off to a family activity – making paper lantern which we complete with some help and eventually set flight after penning our wishes and resolutions for the new years 2017!

D2 – Republic of Chocolate Factory and Freshfields Resort/Hotspring

Daddy teams up with T1, and Mummy with T2 for the chocolate making session and we’re making a Christmas Chocolate log cake!

I like marzipan!

Daddy answers a quiz the facilitator asks and gets an extra snowman choc which we then proudly affix to our little masterpiece!

We like the the Freshfields Hotspring Resort which was really nice, with a hot spring bath in the room – akin to the Japanese onsen! We had fun stuffing ourselves with all the log cake, and were making such a racket Yeye, Mahmah and Gugu J heard us from next door! *burps*

D3 – Leofoo Resort Guanshi

Fun signs @ Leofoo Village Theme Park!

“Stepping forward although you have self-confidence” – in the little boy’s room
“No somking, Foods and Drinks on the rid” – at the Flying Horse ride
“The non-arrival dismounts area to strictly forbid to stand fall to dismount” – I have no idea…

After a really fun day at the theme-park, we head back to the Leofoo Village Resort – the renowned safari-styled kids resort with free-roaming safari animals which include giraffes, rhinos, zebras and lemurs! Definitely a hit with the kids!

D4 – Taipei 101/Shilin/Ximenting

Shopping, shopping, and more shopping and eating…

Seoul, Korea (Feb 2016)

JJ in ICN (4th -9th Feb 2016)

Type: Free & Easy

*RRRRINNNGGGggg* the alarm goes off – Daddy J startles out of bed and does his thing again at having a go at knocking us kids out of slumber! But what d’ya know, we are already up and are ready in a jiffy! The J Twins are ready to rock and rumble! Soon we are at the airport…

We can still fit nicely into our twin stroller (Didi still calls this the ‘stro-ro’!).

Didi with whom else but MMK (Mommy Koa)…

We say bye-bye stroro-ro ro ro at the check-in*…. we’re off to see Pororo!

*(we recall KE accepts stroros only at the check-in counter and not at the aerobridge unlike SQ at least at that point in time. On arrival however, both offer pickup of stroros at the bridge!)

Waiting to board the big blue bird that will take us to Incheon.

We get some nice Pororo-themed kiddy packs (water color stencils)…

We plan to be in Korea during Chinese New Year which happens on 8th Feb 2016. Unbeknown to us, it coincides exactly with the Korean New Year which meant that most shops we closed at least on the first 2 days (8th – 9th Feb)!

Good thing Mackers is always open – rain or shine; winter, spring, summer or fall, and holiday or non-holiday! We muck around with our Chicken nuggets and make it look like rex!