the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
From the category archives:
Citrus and I head to the airport early tomorrow morning for a very short father-daughter trek. We are flying one hour north of Singapore to Kuala Lumpur.
Elysia just wrapped up four days of work in Malaysia so we will meet up with her in the capital for an extended weekend vacation. No real plans other [...]
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On our way back to Singapore from Thanksgiving in the Bay Area, we were in our former hometown of Seattle for 32 hours.
Question: What is wrong with the picture below?
Hint: It is December.
Click HERE for a few more pictures.
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My mom treated us to a night in California’s wine country, a place I hated as a kid but am okay with as an adult. Other than swimming pools there is just not much there for children other than to be carted from one wine tasting to another by tipsy parents.
We did not visit any [...]
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I learned my lesson about Asia-to-North America jet lag when my daughter and I visited the Bay Area in June. Go see late night movies, borrow a lot of story books, and get a hotel room. Trying to be quiet all night in a guest room with a four year old is no fun. For [...]
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The original plan was to catch the Patriot Express from Seattle to Japan and another military flight from there to Singapore. We did not anticipate how much gear Marines carry with them or how many families were traveling on EML (Environmental Morale Leave). There were at least twenty people ahead of us when it was [...]
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