L.A. and Las Vegas

Here we travelled again in July! This time we flew to Newport Beach, L.A. and then rented a car to travel around the places nearby.

We went to San Diego, Santa Monica, Disney downtown and Las Vegas and had some great

shopping atshopping at outlet mall too!

Picture at MGM Grand and M&M Store in Las Vegas:

I am really lucky to get a seat on the flight!

Picture at Premium Outlet while mommy got her shopping done!

Our trip to Osaka, Japan - Part 2

I have been very busy and it's been a long time to write any blog posts.

I will post pictures for the places that we had been to and hope that when I have time, I will come back and write down the places that we went to since we went there in May, 2010.

This a picture that we took at the outdoor hot spring of the hotel that we stayed! Really love it! It's about two hours bus ride from Osaka and definitely worth the travel time!

We went to a zoo nearby the town that we stayed near the hotel and one part of was like Amusement park. Too bad that we need to catch the 3:00 pm bus to another places, if not, we will for sure stay there for a longer time. The picture on the left, we took it outside the Osaka train station which was 5 minutes away from the hotel that we stayed. The hotel was really good since it has a mini hot spring on the top floor and we enjoyed it very very much!

We also went to Kyoto where there's many ancient Japanese temples there. We went there by train and it's less than an hour train ride from Osaka if I remembered it correctly.

We also went to a place that's like a studio where there's streets like ancient Japan, mini live shows to watch (and you don't really need to know Japanese to watch those and you will understand what they are doing from their body language). And there's a large exhibition of ultraman in that studio and that's one of the reasons why we went there as my hubby is a big fan since he was a kid.

We also went to Nara which is also less than an hour train ride from Osaka. There's many temples there as well.

We really had a great time in Japan and I look forward to going there again!

New York and Boston

For Labour Day long weekend, we flew to New York. We stayed at a very decent hotel which was just walking distance to the Central Park. It was definitely the most expensive hotel I have ever stayed but since we only stayed for a night, I just go for it. It's the first time that my baby girl went to Central Park and we enjoyed our visit there. We also tried the famous high tea at the hotel and it was a great experience too.

Then we rented a car and drove to Boston. We went to museums, Quincy Market and Aquarium. Places that a normal tourist would go. Originally my hubby wanted to drive to Rhode Island too but since we needed to drive back to New York to take our flight, we would save that for our next trip.

Okkatots Baby Carrier

Okkatots has recently won the PTPA awards. There's an awesome giveaway at the Okkatots website for their baby carrier and travel diaper bag!

Go to their website at http://www.okkatots.com/ to check out their products and also enter their giveaway for a chance to win either the grand prize which is a baby carrier or the runner up prize which is a travel diaper bag!

I would really love to win the travel diaper bag as we do travel a lot! If I won, that would be awesome!

Our Japan trip - Osaka - Part 1

I left this post in draft form for quite sometime already and it's finally time to finish it up (well at least for the Part 1)!

I went to Tokyo before and I absolutely love this place!

This year, thanks to Air Canada's buy one get one free deal (because of Canada won gold medal in Winter Olympic, this was one of the promotions), we decided to go to Asia and Japan was one of the stop. This time, we went to Osaka and surrounding area. We had also decided that we were going to bring our baby with us as well.

We were lucky enough to get the seats with the bassinet and therefore, during the long flights, my baby were able to sleep a few times and not really too cranky overall during the flights.




We took the airport bus to our hotel as with a baby with us, we did not want to lift our luggage and stroller going up and down by taking the train. My hubby had booked the hotel right next to the airport bus stop and thus it's only 1 minute walking to the hotel after we got off.

We stayed in Osaka for a few days and we just simply browsed around the area near the hotel and then headed to other surrounding area. (To be continued)

My baby is having Diarrhea ...

My baby is having diarrhea for almost a week now. She has bowel movements at least 3 to 5 times a day. We bought her to her doctor this Tuesday and he simply said it's normal. He told me to bring her back if I found any blood in her stool or if she has stomach pain ...

I have done some research on the internet and I know that it is important to keep her hydrated and I have been feeding her as normal (breastfeeding plus rice cereal) and give her water from time to time as well ...

Hope that she will be better this weekend since it's been a week already.

My Baby loves Huggies

Here is a picture that my baby plays with her Huggies diapers which we stocked up at home! She just loves using Little Movers!