Monday, June 29, 2015

Planning the trip

Well it's been months in the planning but now we're just about ready for the big family trip to the Pacific July to Dec 2015. Catheleen and I have been thinking about taking a mid-career break and doing some travelling with the kids for some time now - we agreed there was no better time than now. John (age 12) and Elizabeth (age 10) are old enough to get some experiences out of the trip and hopefully remember it. If we had waited any longer, we felt we would be impacting the kids' schooling too much as they moved into later grades.

So the planning is done. Plane tickets are booked. Careers are on hold. House sitters are lined up. We'll home school the kids along the way and put them in their grades five and eight starting in January 2016.

The kids have started their blogs - they're already fun to read!
  • John - jellykidjam.blogspot.ca
  • Elizabeth - lizzylovesdjango.blogspot.ca
Here's our overall itinerary for our trip. Should be quite the experience!

Vancouver 09-Jul
Japan 18-Jul
Thailand 25-Jul
Laos 09-Aug
Vietnam 27-Aug
Singapore 15-Sep
Indonesia 20-Sep
Australia 17-Oct
New Zealand 30-Oct
Fiji 05-Dec
USA 19-Dec
Ottawa 28-Dec

Day 3 ( Going to miss my cat )

Hello I'm Elizabeth and I will be talking about who I will be missing on my 6 month trip in Asia well to answer your question it is Django my big furry lovable, ok some people call him fat urg I hate using the word but we call him big bone he is just more to love ya know but his stomach does not drag on the grown, well not yet at least well I will really miss him on our trip he will not come though I am not surprised but the scary thing is someone else has to look after him not us yeah someone else for 6 hole months!!!!
Well at least I could see this 
You see just big bone well I will really miss you little guy yeah that's right I said little well Byeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!



My Cat

Hello, my name is John and today I will be telling you a thing or two about my cat and how I will miss him so much during our 6 month trip around the globe. It's good and all that we're going on this huge trip and I don't have any regrets, but I think the worst part about it is that my cat won't be coming with us. A few things you should know about Django (My Cat) is that he's pretty big, like huge, but he hates it when we talk about his obesity, so let's just say he's big bone and there's just more to love. He has a beautiful fur texture, and he is the best cat in the world for the folowing reasons. He meows alot, he's really needy, loves to play when he's not tired, kind of lazy, and he is really fluffy. But hey! That's litteratly the characteristics of a cat, so it's all good. Here is a picture of him. Anyways I will miss him alot during our trip and I really want him to come but... well... let's just say he dosen't like traveling!                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                    
      

If that picture wasen't enough, well then look at these next ones. For the record, i'm doing a photo shoot of Django!
There you go! Until next time... BYYYYYYYYE!





Sunday, June 28, 2015

Day 2( Photo shoot )

Hi again well it is me Elizabeth today I will show you some pictures of where we are going 



Map of Asia
Vancouver 
Japan 
Thailand 
Laos 
Singapore 
Vietnam 
Indonesia 
Australia / Sydney
New Zealand 
Fiji 
Tulsa/ Oklahoma 

Well there you go that is my photo shoot everybody said that it is a big opportunity but i am scared that they will not homeschool me well but think positive. I am mostly exited for Ausralia,Japan and New Zealand why new Zealand because that is where Lord of the rings was shot ok one more photo 
Well bye then๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿ‘‹



Saturday, June 27, 2015

Starting my blog - day one

Hello I'm Elizabeth and I am about to travel on a 6 months trip around Asia scary right but I won't do it alone I have my mom (Catheleen) my dad (Jim) my brother (John) and of course my cat (Django) but of course he is not coming :(:(:( I am going out of school for 4 months you ask me how well my mom and dad are going to homeschool me and my brother ,know i will tell you the places that we are going to  1 Vancouver 2 Japan 3 Thailand 4  Laos 5 Vietnam 6 Singapore  8  Indonesia 9 Australia 10 New Zealand 11 Fiji 12 Tulsa visiting relatives for Christmas 


 This thing this chubby big bone thing called Django isn't coming but I can except that cause he can barely stay alive in a car.        
<----------------This cannot come booooooohoooooo
                                                                                               
Of course I am not doing this blog stuff by myself here are there blogs 
Jellykidjam.blogspot.ca        John
Jimfamilytrip.blogspot.ca        Dad     
Hedonism2015.blogspot.ca.    Mom
  
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We'll see you soon btw I have a thing ¥

                                                                                                                                                
                                      
                                     

The Teaser Trailer

Hello, my name is John and I am going on a 6 month trip around the globe and this is my blog which is purposely used for my homeschooling (English) and to keep you guys Jealous of how awesome this vacation is gonna be. My first blog will just be showing you one picture of each place 'I', or should I say 'we'. My family which includes my sister (Elizabeth, my father (Jim), my mother (Cathleen) and myself (John). So here is the 'Teasers' of my trip.
Vancouver
Japan
Thailand
Laos
Viet Nam
Singapore
Bali
Australia
New Zealand (#Where The Lord of The Rings was shooted for the movie) Shire Image Hype
Fiji

And then our journey ends in Tulsa Oklahoma where we spend chrismas with the best cousins in the world. Now obviously I have just shown the big picture of these magnifacent places, so we are going to visit other city's in those areas. Each Country we will be spending at least 2 or 3 weeks staying there except for Japan, only one week in my favorite country :(. Oh well, I hope i've given you the Teaser Trailer you were hoping for of my 6 month trip.