Celebrating Birthday Overseas 2017

Richard happy to see his cake

My sincerest thanks to all of the wonderful birthday wishes that came in from literally all over the world. 

This year’s birthday celebration, hubby and I did a very simple birthday celebration at home. For his Birthday we had steak and for mine I cooked my favorite Filipino style spaghetti, fried chicken and barbecue (Hubby calls it Jollibee birthday celebration  LOL) .

Just a quick Insight of an expat life celebrating birthdays...

Planning Two Weddings in Two different Countries (Part 2 : PH Wedding)

I couldn’t be more excited! Finally that day had come for me to leave Ghana to go back to the Philippines to do a final meeting and discussion with our wedding suppliers (Countdown:1 month) and to plan our pre-wedding shoot (18 days to go, See some photos HERE).

Pre-Wedding Shoot in the Philippines & US

Posting our most favorite photos (out of the hundreds lol) of our Pre-wedding shoot in Philippines and US. Since we are living overseas and doesn't want to skip having prenup shoot in my beautiful home country we decided to do it few days before the wedding day (12 days before). we traveled all the way from Manila to Bataan for the shoot, it was a tiring but fun shoot.

New Year's Eve at the Sahara Dessert

This is not our first time riding a camel or visiting the dessert, we already had our own individual experiences of the Dubai dessert and its camel, but we never visited the dessert and rode camel together so on our two weeks trip in Morocco we decided to visit the dessert and spend the night in a Berber tent.

Christmas Lunch and Gondola Ride in Maokong

Maokong is located in Wenshan district of Taipei is popular for growing tea and its Gondola ride. So high tea is a must experience when visiting Maokong  which me and my family did not try. Instead, we had lunch.

Our Same Day Edit Video 12.18.2016

Richard and Ailene 12.18.2016  {Same Day Edit by NIM} from 蘇雯文 on Vimeo.

Bali,Indonesia 2016

 

Uluwatu Temple

It was somewhere in Feb or March of 2016 last year where I already plotted out my whole year schedule for the year, a complete timetable of  when I will be on and off from work, honeymoon plans, and how when where I will organize and meet our wedding suppliers in the Philippines not until I saw a Cebu Pacific Seat Sale!

Morocco Itinerary 9D8N

We decided to spend two weeks ending our 2016 in Morocco! Kingdom of Morocco located in northern part of Africa is such a beautiful country. I was surprise to see how beautiful and rich this country is when it come it nature. From sandy deserts where you can ride a camel and camp out under the stars, impressive snowy mountains, beautiful white sand beaches, busy cities, Smelly tanneries, mosque and palaces made from beautiful hand woven textiles, Roman medieval places! Gosh there are plenty of unique experiences to be had in this country! too much stuff to explore! I

Taiwan Itinerary for Family 5D4N

Richard, Me, Aina, Dad, Jeffrey 

Spent Christmas with my family in Taiwan and it's sad that my mom wasn't feeling well a day before so she decided to just stay at home and rest.

No doubt that Taiwan is a foodie's paradise! You should definitely Include Taiwan in your must visit place if you are a foodie, we spent 5D4N in Taiwan touring and eating only. 

Sharing our below itinerary, we were able to visit all the places mentioned because we rented our own car for convenience but surely these are all accessible by public transportation. 

I would also suggest adding some activity like hiking the Elephant mountain in Nangang District or Taroko George, we did not do it because of my dad and brother. But if it was just me and Richard we will surely visit a lot of hiking spot in Taiwan. 

Bali Itinerary 5D4N

From Google, Very Helpful!

(DAY 1) ( Airbnb- Sarin Ubud Villa, across  the new monkey forest parking, Right behind hubud and habitat coffee)

-           Pickup at Airport 8AM

-           Check-in & Rest

-           Brunch Ibu Oka

-           Tour Ubud Tegalalang Rice Field

-           Ubud Monkey Forest

-           Visit Tanah Lot for Sunset

-           Dinner at Café Wayan