Mexico, Cabos San Lucas
27
December

Our trip to Mexico was very fun. We saw baby turtles getting released to the ocean and we learned that out of 100 only 3-5 will survive. We also saw and snorkelled with Whale Sharks in the wild. Each Whale Shark has a different pattern similar to human finger prints. They eat plankton and they are the biggest fish on earth. My grandparents were there too and we just joined them for few days. In the matter of fact we were in the same hotel 7 years ago when I was 2 year old. Despite pool, beach, sun and activities together with my grandpa we did little fashion show. Hope you like it.

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Galapagos
20
October

Our trip to the Galapagos was amazing, not just because of wild life but because I did not see a single piece of litter on the road and the airport was the first ecological airport .There was also a sign that said that straws, plastic plates, plastic bags, and plastic bottles were banned by law.We visited 9 islands and saw sharks (swimming with sharks was a bit scary), turtles (they were huge), loads and loads of fish (even some rainbow trouts that were very colourful), blue footed boobies (those are birds that have blue feet because the only food they eat is a blue tinted sardine), frigate birds (they have a puffy bright red neck), swimming iguanas (they can live up to 40 years ,they go 12 meters deep every time they look for food ,and they eat algae), we also saw sea lions ( one of the the ways to distinguish a sea lion and a seal is seals use their back flippers and stomach to walk, where as a sea lions use their front and back flippers to walk. I had an amazing trip I hope we come back there soon.
Be ready for 300 picture of Iguanas, 100 of Sea lions and about 5 of me and 2 of mom  Enjoy 10 pages of pictures 😉

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Yellowstone Adventure
06
September
We just got back from Yellowstone National Park. It was an amazing experience. I went with my grandparents and my mom and we all loved it. We saw lots of Bisons and erupting geysers. There was a geyser called Steam Boat which hasn’t erupted for last 15 years but just since spring in had 64 big eruptions where stones were thrown out all the way to parking lot. Each eruption lasted an hour. We also witness a thunderstorm, which was a bit scary since we don’t get thunder in Vancouver.  I cant wait to go back!
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Arctic
25
August

It was our second time in Churchill, this time in the summer “hunting” for Belugas, and we saw tons of them. They were very playful and they even tried to tip our kayak. We met Angela and George who made our stay memorable. After Churchill we flew to Rankin Inlet in Nunavut. It is different Canada up there, as mom said felt like top of the world. We staid with Samantha and her family and they treated us to Jerky Caribou. First day we spent watching local woman Cleaning seal skin, checking local Potter studio, seeing left overs from Nickel Mine and wonder around the town. We went for a day trip to Tundra and mom was going crazy seeing all the animals sculls and bones, she even brought a caribou jaw. We even saw natural Oil seeping from the ground. We love arctic, mom is trying to convince me to go up in the winter to -60. No!

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Seismic Road Trip
15
July

Washington, Oregon and California, over 3000 km in 7 days. The theme of the trips was Mother’s Earth Seismic activity. We left Vancouver right after the earthquake in California, once we arrived the shake moved to Washington. Phew! Brief visit at Cannon Beach and hanging out with my class mates. Down to Californias Coast on 101 legendary road- tsunami escape route. Cool Blimp Museum; Redwoods National Park with the 7 meters in diameter tree, and where I was eaten alive by moskitos. Then east, to Lassen National Park with 4 meters of snow and few volcanoes. Then north to Crater National Park with the Clearest water visibility on earth: 44 meters; and finally to Mount St. Helens, which erupted in 1980, 2004 and 2008 and is still active. I was holding stones that were only 2 years older than me. Enjoy!!!

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Baja California Sur, Mexico
22
April

Mexico Baja California Sur was mainly relaxing. We did meet some whale sharks and playful sea-lions which was my highlights. Visiting Cabos Arch was a must. I had chance to blow some glass in a glass blowing factory and ride some horses. I finally shoot my first youtube channel video which will be out soon. I joined foam pool party and had a ride in some sort of space looking ball. Besides that we had lots of sun time lying down and eating, we all came back bit bigger. We met cool couple with two dogs traveling around the world in the coolest truck ever…that triggered lots of talk 😉

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Colors of Peru
08
April
Peru, were you find every shade of colors. It was tough trip but with out 3 am daily mornings, late nights, cold nights, cold showers, hale, vicious mosquitos, fire-ant attack  and torrential amazon rain we wouldn’t see all the magical places and meet wonderful people. One day in Lima to meet up with Margo and Christian from Vancouver as In Vancouver they could never find time to meet 😉 We started in Cusco, with Machu Picchu, where clouds were competing with us over the view but eventually they opened up. Rainbow Maintain at 5.200 m (the same as Mt Everest Base) was next and big failure on the elevation sickness but we made it, well horses helped. Moray and Mares was finally something more relaxing. Overnight bus to Puno in the sleepover bus with blankets, pillow, food served and TV, 30$ for 8 hour drive (seriously Canada you should learn from that). Staying on the floating island of Uros was priceless, walking, sitting, sleeping on straws was a blast with hot bottles in our feet to keep the temperature bare-able at night. Long day to Nazca Lines and all the UFO stories, Paracas National Reserve were my mom was in heaven picking up seal, birds bones and Ballestas Island with over million birds and we saw Penguins too. Finally- Amazon where mosquitos welcomed us right away. Three days in Amazon with two guides and Steve, cool guy working for Amazon LoL. Wildlife blew our minds, crazy big spiders, monkeys, toucans, thousands of birds and the highlight Sloths and hairless dogs. One night we staid in the amazonian village and one camping. We got introduced to lots of medicinal plants in the jungle, we even used natural iodine for mosquito bites ( this is why I have yellow marks on my hands).. ..and mom found monkey scull :)
Food in Peru is more than delicious ! Fresh Juices are the best so far I ever had. Enjoy the journey !
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Polar Bear, Polar Bear
06
November
Churchill’s main attraction are Polar Bears. As much as we wanted to see them we also didn’t want at all, well in the town at least. Apparently they can charge super fast from 0-40 mph so no chance for me and mom. Churchill is mega organized, all the houses and cars have to be open 24 hours for potential escape. There is bear prison for the naughty one which comes to town and wander around. Close to migration season when Hudson bay get frozen, they are all released to go wander on the ice to catch some seals. There is bear patrol, alarms and people aren’t supposed walk around between 10pm and 6am. We were lucky to see over 18 of them, beautiful healthy looking creatures who looked as if they were ready to jump on and cuddle.

Churchill was special, our diet was based on pirogies in the best restaurant is Town called Tundra. We met super cool Polish lady Aneta and we spent great 3 days wandering around. I have feeling that we will meet again on another trip. :) But for now meet our fluffy creatures.

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3 Goddess in Greece
24
September
Mom, Serena and myself went on vacation for over two weeks in scorcho weather, good food, fresh squeezed orange juice, thousands of cats, lovely locals touching my head, friends and family, fantastic wedding, late flights, ferries, rented cars in the speed of light,  four islands, too much walking, sailing sun burns, colour coded  beaches, cute churches, white houses, traditions, museums, ruins, impressive buses, efficient taxis…and more walking.
We started off with a 30 hour journey from Vancouver to  Milos. Cute, local, amazing coast lines with a moon like beach, crystal blue water while sailing around the island…we couldn’t ask for more.
Next was popular Santorini which we reached by a late night ferry to my (NOT) favourite port. Impressive 5 star buses and fun car driving in small streets. From black and red beaches, to cave houses, busy town of Fira, melting while walking up to the volcano, meeting lovely Jola in majestic Oia for  tourists with heavy wallets.
Of course midnight flight to Athens arriving to the hotel at 2am is perfect for a 7 year old. And the walking began: Acropolis Museum, Parthenon, Zeus Temple, Panathenaic Olympic Stadium (first in the world for international Olympics 1896), Socrates Prison, Plaka and more ruins.
Time for another ferry from my favourite (NOT) port to Aegina for THE Wedding of Serena‘s cousin Samantha and Jacob. What an experience of tradition, fun, lost in translation ceremony, ATV escort and finally beautiful married couple and late night Zorba dance with amazing guests.I even tried Ouzo. More ruins day after with spectacular Moni Island.
Back to Athens for more walking. This time with Jon and Chuk Chuk exploring Archaeological Museum, The Frogs – Ancient Greek Comedy at theatre of Herodes (hmmmm amazing theatre not sure about the show).
There was lots of laughter when I put on my jumper and shorts on a separate day and wore them backwards without knowing.  Perfecting my Greek accent, learning words in Greek and Cantonese and teaching Polish to Serena.  We made lots of funny faces in pictures and laughed super hard when we went back to the hotels to review them.
Time to say goodbye to amazing Greece with Gorgeous islands, Rich history, Warm people and all the cute cats. Sun Overdose.

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Summer camping trip
17
September

This summer instead of road trip we decided to go camping and be stationary in one or two places. Last minute we found a campsite at Wenatchee lake in Washington, US. We loaded our kayaks, bikes and gear. We started off with the Abbotsford Aviation show watching it from the roof of the car. Biking, kayaking, SUP, and short visits to Leavenworth. The highlight of the trip was the Boeing Future of Flight Aviation Center with Boeing Tour as well as the Naval Air Station on Whitbey Island. Chipmunks were great companions, sky was apocalyptic and at least it didn’t smell of fire. It was a very different trip from others: Mom was in relaxing mode, she even managed to read an entire book and sit down for long hours. Both mom and dad wanted to rest from taking pictures too (as you can see the amount of pictures posted and the quality ;). Despite the fire and smokey air we had good time. 

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