Happy Birthday Spud! Hiking Monk’s Trail to Wat Pha Lat & Doi Suthep & the Winter Festival

Lucky boy turned 10 years old and gets to celebrate in Thailand! Spud & NixiRay had a challenge going on for the last few days to see who could find enough coins to get to 1 Baht first (yes, they have smaller coins than that!) Loser had to do a...
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Chiang Rai Temple Tour

This morning during breakfast NixiRay was looking at her arms and said “I’m tanner than I was yesterday. Yesterday I was a ghost, today I’m a…” She paused, thinking. Littlest chimes in “Zebra!” We all...
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sticky waterfall

We Found Church! Sticky Waterfall & Chiang Dao Cave

This morning Superman decided to try a Thai breakfast (the hotel has 4 choices). Below is Littlest’s reaction to the smell of the fish chili paste. Not gonna lie, I nearly lost my breakfast when I smelled it. Superman talked to the hotel...
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elephant sanctuary

Living Green Elephant Sanctuary

Such an amazing day!! (Even though we had a bit of a rough start… Keep reading, haha) Be prepared for picture overload! We booked this excursion on GetYourGuide.com (highly recommend!) A van came and picked us up and drove us an hour-ish up...
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Wat Lok Moli

Old City Chiang Mai Walking Tour

Hotel breakfast included salad with a dressing that tasted like bacon. Not gonna lie, I don’t think salad is a breakfast food. We also had eggs, ham, sausage that tasted like bland hot dogs, and bread with butter and jam (which doesn’t...
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We Left Tuesday Somewhere Over the Pacific Ocean

Monday night, with 6 backpacks, 6 carry-ons, and 1 suitcase, we headed to the airport in Salt Lake City. (Pro packing tip: pack whole outfits in gallon ziplock bags and sit on them to squeeze out all the air! Bonuses– you don’t have to...
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ZhuZhu Aquarium thanks to Tryazon

ZhuZhuPet Aquarium

Thanks to Tryazon and ZhuZhu Pets we were able to try out a #nomesspets ZhuZhu Aquarium! And the kids love it! We received the base aquarium set, a submarine, and 3 robotic fish/animals. The kids loved that the animals made unique sounds and...
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Inflatable Hot Tub for New Year’s!

We are having so much fun with the #tryazon #bestway inflatable hot tub that we received this week. We decided to set it up in our storage room for now (winter), but set up was super easy and the heat and jets work great! Now I just need to do...
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Light Up Snowman – Winter Fun

Meet Fritz, our amazing light-up snowman! We thought with 12 inches of new snow we needed to build a snowman. Daddy had an awesome idea and it turned out even better than we thought! We wrapped each ball of the snowman in multi-colored outdoor...
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