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Hawaii – Kauai
12
May

Kauai – was great. My Mom made sure we were busy every second, from off road drives, to the wild beaches, to catamaran sailing and drives through canyons and rivers and an educational Pearl Harbor visit. We celebrated my grandparent’s birthday too :) and met mom’s friend, Nancy. My biggest success was learning how to swim. Well.. I’m still using arm floaters, but I do it all by myself, in any depth you think of. I met a new friend on the catamaran, his name is Ben and he is around 30… Check for yourself, I even managed to get a picture with him. I quite like him. There are lots of pictures to go through so I am not going to write more.
See for yourself! Take your time, mommy prepared 140 pictures – I look like Yoda on one of them.

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My first “steps” on skis
18
April

It has been a while since my last post. My parents kept me busy all that time but I finally managed to find some down time. Mom made a little skiing video from her phone, quality recording ;). Check it out my first “steps” on skis.

Gingers first steps on skis 2013 from beata kacy on Vimeo.

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Play Date with my buddies
23
March

Last weekend was friend’s weekend. Both Saturday and Sunday we had play dates. Elliot and Liam were visiting us from LA and Leon joined us for the party. On Sunday Jara (my day care buddy) came to play. See for yourself, we all had a blast :)

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My cheeky vocabulary for mix Polish and English audience
07
March

In this post my mom decided to update you with my cheeky vocabulary and sayings. It is mixed in Polish and English. BTW I am two & a half already.

Ginger is explaining something to her mom, for some reason mom wasn’t playing attention.
Ginger, “Hallo, are you listening Lady?”

Ginger uwaznie slucha dziadka slow. Po przyjsciu do domu mowi:
Ginger: “Mamusiu czy moge dostac Mol?”
Mama: “A co to jest Mol?”
Ginger: “No wiesz, Kurde Mol”

Ginger and Daddy picked up a fish and aquarium. Ginger named her fish Christopher. After 20 minutes staring at her new “friend”, she said…
Ginger: “Daddy, when can we eat Christopher?”

For mature audiences:
Ginger and Daddy walking in town,
Ginger: I am a girl
Daddy: oh ye? what about Mommy?
Ginger: Mommy is a girl too.
Daddy: What about Daddy?
Ginger: You are boy Daddy.
Daddy: Why?
Ginger: You have long tail…

Ginger has been cheeky all evening
Mommy: Where do you take the cheekiness from?
Ginger: From Youtube

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Southeast Asia Adventure – China (part6) and last one
15
January

..And here we are China! We flew to this small Island called Hainan and my mom booked a hotel far from tourists hoping to see real China. And she got it no doubt. First thing we encountered was that nobody understood the word “taxi”, until my dad drew a picture and got recognized, we were happy we got it solved. Since we booked the hotel online in Vancouver we had a confirmation with the address printed in English not in Chinese and that was a problem we didn’t think about. The second thing we learned was that everybody tried to help, the taxi driver even tried calling some friends who could maybe read English and find our hotel. As we were spoiled during the trip, where everybody was taking dollars, this time we needed the bank. Well the first bank was closed due to Christmas decorating but thankfully the second one was there for us. Eventually we found the hotel (far far from everything in the middle of nowhere) and after the first night where we couldn’t communicate with the hotel staff, again dad was showing the taxi drawing and I heard my mom saying for the first time “I want to go where tourists go”.
So my mom started calling random numbers which were on Chinese tourist pamphlets in the hotel hoping that somebody would speak English, but no luck there. At around 10:30 at night we received a phone call…seems like somebody must have helped us and made an English speaking person contact us. That night we arranged for a taxi to pick us up in the morning at 10am to go to the office and see how to get to the more visited part of the island the day after. :) We were ready at 10; taxi arrived at 11….We managed to book new hotels and transportation to a new place. 4 hours later we were in our new Hotel where we still didn’t have much chance to ask questions in English but at that point we were pro using our hands and sounds (mom making chicken sounds to order chicken for dinner)
We spent 7 days on Hainan Island, we saw the rainforest, long stretches of beaches, fishing villages, fascinating night markets and mommy went to the monkey island. I stayed with dad in the pool. For Christmas dinner we found an Italian restaurant, pizza and pasta had never tasted as good as they did that day.
We met wonderful, warm and generous people who were giving me gifts and lots of smiles. Jala, our guide for 2 days, who happened not to be a tour guide but working in the office, helped us a lot. Mom is still in touch with her via email. We left China after 7 days back to Singapore and then back home.
During my travels I met wonderful people, lots of smiles and generosity. I was like a little celebrity for them and they were celebrities for us …I guess it balanced out. Oups that was a long post…Hope you enjoyed it all.

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Southeast Asia – Hong Kong (part 4)
10
January

Hong Kong it is! We left the boat and all the great people we met there. Some of the staff we became friends with will visit us while the cruise is in Vancouver. We are staying one day in HK and then heading out for adventure in China, on Hainan Island. Anyhow, going back to Hong Kong, most of the day we spent on the streets checking fish markets, birds and flowers, once. At night we went (well I fell a sleep half way there) to night market which turn out to be a food and shopping fiesta for locals and tourists. The City landscape was impressive even in the fog. Enjoy.

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Southeast Asia -Vietnam (part 4)
09
January

Vietnam was beautiful. The people are mega-friendly there, our taxi driver even allowed me to drive his car. Lots of people wear pyramid hats to protect them from the sun. I regret i didn’t take a picture in a hat like that, they look so cool. Our first stop was HoChiMinCity (Saigon). The city is booming, you can see lots of effort and money goes to that place. But there is still some little treasures you can find like a man fixing nests of electrical cables in a traditional way. :). We managed to find the “Bac Ho” monument and take a picture with HoChiMin.

Our second stop was gorgeous UNESCO heritage city HoiAn. My dad had a blast at the local market, mom with the camera and me running bare feet in the temple. We could of stayed there longer but it was time to catch a ride back to the boat. Well, enjoy the pictures as mom took tons of them.

Last but not least was the mysterious Hal-long Bay and Marble Mountain village. The weather wasn’t cooperating but still it was absolutely stunning. I was told that James was here…James Bond

You can see me holding a blue bag in the car, our taxi driver caught crickets for me so i don’t get bored in the car, my mom let them live at the Marble Mountain village :)

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Southeast Asia -Thailand (part 3)
08
January

Thailand was warm. First stop was Ko Samui Island. Small island, very laid back, a nice beach and coast with friendly people. Water in the ocean was super warm but I wasn’t a big fan of the waves. Bangkok welcomed us with 40 degree heat, a 3 hour drive in the seatbeltless car then a magnificent emperor palace, crazy boat drive in the canals where we saw a few iguanas and how people live. Pleasant bike ride among heritage historical center outside of Bangkok. I felt like a celebrity, everybody wanted to have a picture with me, or of me.

Second day we spent in the Elephant conservation run by locals. I managed to get a ride on the elephant with my mom and jeez that was high and bumpy. At some point the elephant went deep into the water and we had to keep our feet up from the muddy looking pond. BTW the elephant hair was spiky. We saw silk worms, cows chilling in the water and had an awesome drive in an old landrover.

Check pictures to see for yourself, next post about Vietnam.

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Southeast Asia -Living on the boat (part 2)
07
January

After Singapore we took off for an 11 day adventure on the boat. It became our little home where I was always looking forward to come back to after a busy day of exploring places. The easy part was that each day we woke up at the new place ready for a new adventure. We got to know wonderful people there. The staff was so friendly and they love kids. My favorite was Oki, he is holding me with his orange suit. Food was superb: pasta:masta, ricy:spicy…ye I was into making rhymes there. Our favorite place was deck 3 where we spent lots of time watching the ocean, little boats passing by and of course playing. Each port had its beauty, mostly industrial, so my dad was in heaven photographing all the port’s action. See for yourself. Next post about Thailand.

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Southeast Asia – Singapore (part 1)
05
January

I have so much to say that I decided to divide the post into a few different ones.

This one will be about Singapore, then Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong and China. As well as life on the Boat in the end. Singapore was great, modern, hip and super, mega clean. We visited the fantastic zoo, where animals were running around pretty much free. Dad spotted few interesting lizards, snakes and spiders which made the zoo as their home but they were not part of the zoo deal. We stayed in a nice hotel where the swimming pool was all the way to the sky next to a giant metal wire tress. Chinatown was fun and little India was busy even late at night.
Singapore was easy to begin with, but as we progressed into the trip it got harder and harder … more about it later

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