Today I got some pocket \240hugs from Amazon and I made some notes on the paper this paper is from Amberley

In our hotel room it is so big we even have a living room and bunk beds

There is a 8hour time difference between San Francisco and London.When we get there we would have flown for ten hours

Did you know that this place is home to black and brown bears 🐻 it was quiite scary walking back from the restaurant we even have to put our food in a locker so the bears don’t smell it

Here there are \240a lot of big pine cones and different types of trees 🌲

This is also a view of our our window 3days ago

It was quite scary there.

Is this true?

This a present Jack got from Ethan Can you guess \240which game this is from?

We also biked the Golden Gate Bridge 🌉 🌁🌉🌁🌉🌁

I learnt that it was very difficult to get into a hammock- net is a lot more difficult than just a fabric one.

We had a basket weaving lesson and a man taught us how to make baskets.

I went looking for flowers that had fallen from the plants (we didn’t want to ruin any wildlife in Fiji).

Mummy made us do some school work this morning. I learnt about how how the Romans invaded Britain. I liked learning about Bodica as she was a woman who was good at fighting.

I miss you all and hope you like reading about my travels.

In Fiji there are very nice sunsets. The sun sets over the sea and makes it look golden.

This is a ‘chair in the air’. Fiji is very relaxed and beautiful. It has beautiful scenery so people like sitting down and chilling. .

There was a very kind man who let me ride on his horse. We went along the waters edge and sometimes even in the water.

We also found a piece of coral that had not \240lost all of its colour washed up on the shore in the wreck line. A wreck line is where the bits of coral, seaweed and shells get washed up to at high tide. \240

We went to the rock pools and found thousands and thousands of baby octopuses (they had very spiky tails - like something from a nightmare).

This is the beautiful rope swing on the beach. It was quiet hard to stay on it because it was designed for adults.

Our family game that we play most nights is UNO. We all love it and it is a very good game for learning numbers too.

The frogs come out at night and they love jumping round the lights to catch flies. We can often see them extend their to tongues to catch the flies.

Hermit crabs amd sea snails love this beautiful environment. They also love climbing in the rock pools and floating in the rivers.

They have very attractive and beautiful shells. I wonder if they use them to attract mates. Where do all these shells come from?

Here I was helping Jack learn his number bonds to 10 with shells that I had found.

We went kayaking.

We stopped at a small swimming raft and I went snorkelling. We saw blue star fish and some blue neon fish.

This is us doing a school lesson. Mummy makes us do it every day and does not let us even have a weekend.

We met up with our grandparents at their hotel. It was nice to see them.

This is was what my hair used to look like but now I have had it braided

This is when I had it braided

This my hair now

We also had a river trip (my hair was not wet \240braided )

This was us sliding down the waterfall. I jumped off a big rock. It was very scary.

We also had a island 🏝️ trip to Yanuka we went snorkeling and we had a barbecue played on the beach .there were lots of coral reefs and lots of fish

I now have a new favourite drink it is pineapple fanta

Also on the boat a when we were snorkelling 🤿 a man was catching fish by his hand

We collected some hermit crabs from the sea and put them in my mum hat 🎩

This is the boat

On the way back I stayed at the front when the boat was going very fast.

We saw some beautiful dolphins jumping and swimming around in the beautiful sunlight.

The sun was setting as we came home

S’mores buy the fire

This is our first night in our campervan

We also went to some springs and I dived in

We went to a park and it had two giant trampolines

We also went and stopped in a waterfall viewing area at Roaring Meg - this was a hydro electric power station and not a waterfall

This is daddy being silly 🙃🤪😜😝

Today I went cycling 🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🏼and then we went in the car and we arrived at a beautiful campsite that had a lake

These are are shoes after the walk they are very close to the heater

We also went one a cruise 🚢🛳️⛴️🏞️🇳🇿

And there was commentary so we learnt about loads of things we saw the rarest dolphins 🐬 in the world but I did not take a picture of them 😢.

The cruise ship took us around the water supply waterfall (I forgot it’s name) \240here is a video of me going under a waterfall. This waterfall provides water and hydro electric power.

There was a thing called a luge and you sat on a little thing that looked like a sledge 🛷 but it had sides

We also went to a bird 🦅 zoo and we saw a KIWI!!!! They were so big and they are nocturnal 🤯😮😯😵‍💫

We saw a Turatara (a tuatara is not a lizard it is a unique species)

This is a picture of me on the luge

This is Hercules a tuatara

We went on a bike ride and we hired another bike it was really light

Today we stayed in a vineyard and there children (they are not children any more ) had TRAMPOLINES 🏆🎖️🏅🥇🗾🇳🇿

We also went on a bored walk

It went through the jungle

There was lots of pebbles

We also slid down a couple of sand dunes

Today we were supposed to go to Fox and Franz Joseph but the weather was too bad soo mummy made me do schoolwork

I also lernt what a glacier is:

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries.

And to get to the top we had to go in a golf cart

We went to Ross Goldfields (but we did not pan for gold , instead we used it as a service station)

We stopped at a cafe

We camped next to a play park

Look at this very closely

We were feeding the animals!

This is me drinking hot chocolate and reading my Kindle in a café overlooking the beach

We also went on a cruise

We did some sea kayaking and stopped for some lunch in a bay near a rock called split apple 🍎 rock

This is split apple rock

We got really wet because the waves were really big on the way back.

This is a two people zip line at a place called “Quinneys Bush Camp”

We went wine tasting

Does this look like my Mummy 🤨🤨

We stayed at a nut farm and they let us do some sorting.

This is the nut crushing machine.

Ahhhh lovely sunset

More sea kayaking

Next stop bike riding

This is a giant pine cone

Finally jumping and swimming

And more jumping (not off the jetty this time though)

Ohhhh ferry time

We went on a ferry to north island

Rocks 🪨 (but they might be islands)

More sea and islands

This is where we stayed

Yummy dinner

Some Pumice

Mummy crashed into a bush and cried

Long scary tunnle

Scary bridge

Nice bridge

WHITE WATER RAFTING!!!!!!!!=happy Sally

Cycling=grumpy Sally

A nice photo

Water park with slides and mineral pools

This is craters of the moon

Bubbling mud

The view out our windowu

We bought a bike

We went on a cycle ride

In New Zealand they call babychinos fluffys

We visited a strawberry farm

This is mega embarrassing 🙈 picture that my mum made me share 😢after we put our wetsuits on

We went surfing (it is not as easy as it looks and we had a enstructer named Emily)

Tonight’s our last night so we have to make the best of it

Is this the sea or is it just a lake

Is this where we park our luggage

Facts I can remember from the bridge climb:

The bridge was opened \240in 1932 but the arch had been closed in 1930.

19 people died building the bridge but only 2 of them died falling off the bridge.

Over 6 million rivetes were used. They had to throw red hot rivets up in the air and they used leather bags to catch them so they could be used on the upper levels.

The bridge is 134m high and I climbed to the top. It took us nearly 3 hours to climb. It wasn’t all ladders 🪜 it was mainly steps and walkways.

There are no bendy pieces of steel in the bridge at all. It is all straight pieces riveted together.

The world famous New Year’s Eve fireworks take the entire year to prepare for and the bridge is shut on New Years Eve and Day.

This is how much space our luggage takes up!

Our view of the opera house in the morning

Our view of the opera house in the evening

Lots of fireworks

More pictures of the opera house

Oh what happened here on our last day !

PANCAKES

This is a Christmas market in the summer

There was a long long long queue

Pineapple jam

We had our own private pool

iPad time in Ubud

We did a Ubud e-bike tour

These are rice fields

I went on a swing and it was so high up that I had to wear a harness

POOL TIME

This is the lotus flower temple

We have now moved to club Med

There was a special kids corner that you order your own drinks

I went on a flying trapeze and went upside down and dangled by my legs

There was also a trampoline

It is very wet

Merry Christmas everyone

I am magic

We had a parade

Fruit dipped in a chocolate fountain

They recreated the greatest showman

Did you know you can carve ice

Are these real or not

FOAM PARTY

We did a show

Non alcoholic drinks

This is true

We have arrived In Hanoi

We are spending 2nights on a cruise ship

This is my lunch

Jacks being annoying as always

We are going Kayaking

After my kayaking

This is the view

I made a spring roll

Ooooh paintings 🖼️

We are going Kayaking and then swimming

We stopped at cat ba island and I had a foot massage where little fish bite your feet

It tickles

Kayaking

I just jumped of the top of the boat

It was between 5 and 10 meters

We went squid fishing but it was not squid season

Bye bye cruise ship

This is a red bridge (can you spot me?)

We are at a sky bar

This is a traditional Vietnamese house. Can you believe there are actual fish in this pond?

This is me checking my mummy servant is working hard enough

We visited a prison with some tour guides

Mummy being crazy

This is me with them

We also went on a Rickshaw

We watched a puppet show on the water

We did a lift challenge where I went up 4stores on the stairs and mummy went up in the lift

I had a ice cream

Can you spot what this shop is made from?

What happened here - this is by far the craziest motorbike we saw!

The biking crew

Ooohhh cocktails

This is our romantic swing

A Hot Dog

The crutch crew

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Silent night holy night all is bright all is light sleeping peacefully

We went rowing and went thorough 9 caves

Ahhh lovely scenery

Oooohhhh spooky cave

We went to a temple

There was more then 100 steps

These are pink water lily’s

This is the nice bridge

Ooooohhhhh

We have a pool I jumped in 3 times but it was still so cold 🥶 Jack jumped in once after me

We cycled to some more boats again. At our lunch stop we could do some relaxing.

This is the hammock

He is rowing with his 👣

How many caves are the in Vietnam?

This is my favourite fruit an you guess what it is?

WWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Hi daddy

You can sleep \240on this train. The train was a noisy uncomfortable place to sleep.

But it was quite fun. I slept on the top bunk with daddy. It was a bit of a squeeze getting all our luggage in but daddy managed it.

Night night

Food anyone ?

Green

The sea is to rough to swim in

This place is so big that you have to ride a golf cart to get there

Is this mummy’s journal?

We cooked some food on a hot stone

I had a donut 🍩for breakfast. It made me feel happy because the other hotel only had Vietnamese breakfast options. I have eaten too many noodles and rice.

We are playing Kings and Queens

We are going up in a cable car to Ba Na Hil. It used to be the longest cable car in the world. l

It started raining 🌧️ Unfortunately it made the view terrible. 😶‍🌫️

We are in a cloud

They had a indoor theme pb ark

Aaaahhhhhh brontosaurus

PINEAPPLE PIZZA

I am getting my nails painted and before that I had a massage

The pool was so cold but they had a special beam that was fun to walk on

We are having a lovely stroll

I just bought a lantern for my bedroom

This is Hoi An it is described as beautiful but I think it is not accessible to wheelchair users because of all the steps.

This is my lantern

Mummy insists on getting her clothes fixed even when a lot of my clothes have holes in

This house is literally made out of lanterns

This is a fancy bridge

This is a up close version on it

What does this dragon have in its mouth

We went on a bamboo boat

This is a on the water karaoke club I was singing Gangnam Style.

This is a fisherman using a traditional net. It was hard to believe the net was that big when he threw it.

But it was huge!

This is a water coconut but I don’t know why it’s called a coconut. It doesn’t taste or look like a coconut 🥥. It’s made into drinks but you can’t stick a straw into it like palm tree coconuts 🌴.

It was actually quite light.

It was quite hot so I needed an ice cream. I had to guess what flavour it was because all the packaging was in Vietnamese (daddy wouldn’t let me use google translate 😤)- it turned out to be coffee which was yummy 😋

This is how people in Veitnam carry stuff to sell

Oh no not more sunsets and scenery

I got really annoyed with mummy because she took to many embarrassing photos (no I’m not going to but them on here)

I went on here and it was crazy

Why so much scenery

This is the view out of our window

We do not have that much space as you can see

Apparently Jack is inspecting the windows

Yes after 15 hours it is finally time to get of the train 🚊

This is the the tallest skyscraper In Saigon

It is really high up

We found this but it is wierd because how would a bicycle fit in the lifts or go up the stairs

Totally crazy fountains how do they control them all

This is the rooftop pool

We went on a tour and stopped of here

We also stopped at the place where a war took place and learned about how they lived during the war

This is a tunnel

It is very deep

This is a bamboo trap where you stand on a place and then it tips and throws you into some spikes

This is a \240tank

ICE CREAM 🍦

Before

Tonight we are watching a bamboo theatre

We are just about to go without Jack 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 sadly we are not aloud to tack photos or videos

After

This is what we are watching tonight

We had to be careful everywhere except in buildings because motorbikes could just drive on the pavement.

They sell these weird pig ball things

Night night

This is the view from our window

Too much motorbikes

Aaahhh the traffic

We are going on a cruise along the Mekong delta.

The name Mekong Delta consists of two words. Mekong which is the name of the river and Delta which is the meaning of the river splitting at it’s ending and mixing with the sea.

There is a lot of boats they could have anything in

Me and Jack are doing some Lego

We tryed some Comelon Jackfruit Mango and Jasmine tea

We are just chilling out on the top deck

The people had to fold down parts of the ship to get under

Is this bridge is super low or are we just super high

A lady gave us ages that we can colour and some special Chinese lego

Why are the sunsets so good here

I’m little red riding hood

We are going on a excursion to the floating market

This is jack

Another bridge 😫😫😫

This is a boat

This is where they make rice noodles

These small boats either sell some local food or bring food from the shore and give it to the big boats

This is dried fish

This is the penultimate step to making rice noodles the last step is packing it all up

There is way to many brides

Can you guess which fruit is which

Tip there is comelon Jack fruit mango pineapple and a coconut

It is raining

This is the market

We are going on a boat 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

They did a performance for us and the lady’s singing was wonderful

The are going to make popcorn but instead of corn they are using rice

It tasted nice

I’m having bee tea no it is actually honey not tea

This is the Vietnamese hat they put in the wardrobe for us. \240The hat was made out of water coconut leaf

They have a pool and it is quite deep

We are having a chicken hot pot for dinner 🥘. One of the options was for frog 🐸 hotpot but we decided just to stick with chicken 🐔. Miss Green would not like this dish.

They had a small bike that had two seats

The lady said we could feed the fish

This is a banana tree. On the picture you can see a banana flower that is worth about $1 and is used in cooking and soups.

Yay golf cart

We are going to a island called Phu Quoc by fast ferry.

We have arrived at Phu Quoc in a place called cassia cottages

This is the children’s pool at night

This is the view from our balcony but I’m a bit bored of mummy tacking photos all of the time

I have got tomato soup for breakfast 😁😁😁😁

We got water guns😏😏😏😏

And of course I win

We were jumping of the side of the wall and into the sand

This is the walk to the beach

This geko is giant they are really useful because they eat all the mosquitoes

This is the sea food barbecue they had 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮

We are building a sand castle 🏜️

A lovely sunset 🌅

Now we are Going to Thailand 🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭

In Thailand they park cars across each other but you can push them around to move them. This is actually allowed in Thailand.

We went to an English style restaurant where I had bangers and mash. I had really been missing this kind of food. I’m not sure I will miss noodles as much.

The restaurant had a games area so we played some mega Uno.

We were picked up from the airport by our friends Maroot and Tuk (pronounced Ta).

We made some dominoes from our UNO Stacko. (We like Uno very much).

I had a whole plate of chicken satay which was yummy.

My favourite type of milkshake- Oreo

Mummy is the person who uploads all the photos so I am just going to so say this once more why so many sunsets?

There was also a snake and you could change by a website.

We watched a water fountain show.

They carried a really really long dragon as part of a Chinese New Year celebration. We wondered if there was a lantern for every day of the year the dragon was so long.

We did a river tour where we had dinner.

Cheers

There was some Thai dancing. The dancers did some really cool things with their hands.

Jack was a bit scared by this mask.

Our hotel had computers that we could play only Roblox (don’t tell mummy she thinks I’m doing school work).

There were a lot of things for children. I loved the slides as they were very fast and Jack was a bit scared of them.

This drink was called a smile punch.

In the evening we saw a fire show 🔥

The fire show was very cool. It was on the beach.

I had Oreo ice cream pancake rolls 😋

In the evening we went to a street market and we bought our dinner. There was a live band but I went to kids club. I made a new friend called Florence who was from Sussex.

We went to the best beach where the waves were supper big. Sometimes they were bit that they swallowed me up which made mummy quite scared but I loved it.

Do you like this swing?

This is Tuk - she’s one of my favourite adults ❤️

We did some more annoying canoeing and mummy is super good at it she is also a bit annoying because she would always win the race

This beach is too calm because diving though the waves felt like being on a water slide.

They had some hot chocolate

I was sad to leave Samui because I really liked it and it was a bit like Fiji.

We went to the Grand Palace but it was closed so we went to Wat Pho which is a temple. Buddhism is the most common religion in Thailand. There were a lot of statues of Buddha.

That evening we went to a sea food restaurant.

I are my body weight in clams. They are the only kind of seafood I like.

Maroot and Tuk had a little early birthday celebration for me. I was really happy.

Home time. See you on Monday.