Agar.io

Hello there, John here bringing you a blog that is kind of like the Splatoon blog that I posted a while back but much bigger since the whole family is playing it and I recommend that you get your butts on it right now! Of course... After I explain what it is :D. Agar.io is a game where you start off as a tiny cell, and there are even smaller cells around the grid, you then can eat those tiny cells to get bigger and bigger, the cool part about this game is that your goal is to become the biggest cell among the other cells, what's even cool is that other people have the same objective and you can eat other people you are bigger than them. Pretty cool right, there are a bunch of other cool thing there are, like the fact that you can split your cell into two halfs and launch the first one from a distance, we you'se this to eat smaller prey. There are many, but what's cool is that my whole family is playing it and we laugh and have fun when we want to cool down. I suggest you get it yourself as it is a free website on the Internet (Just type Agar.io in the search bar) and is free on iOS as in an application. Hope to see you guys on a server and until next time, this has been John and is officially signing out!

Mom's B-day

Hello guys, John here bringing you the special birthday girl for the last blog in Van Viene, and if you remember the blog about me catching up... Yeah not even close! Anyways for the birthday girl's gift, it was a family tour with ziplining and kayaking. We arrived at the zipline/lagoon place in a Tuck-Tuck along with Koreans and French Frys (Frenchs). We got strapped in the harnesses for the zip line course and me and Elizabeth had a blast along with dad, Mom on the other hand was a little scared even though this was her doing with her birthday wish. It was all peaceful with the death cries of the birthday girl along the way, until we got to the last zipline which was called the spider drop. You are harnessed in this pulley and are literally dropped to the ground 40 ft down onto a really soft mattress.  This was the scariest one as it does not look safe and could potentially cause a heart attack. After the ziplining, we went to the nearby blue lagoon which is like a river pool with a cool current, we had fun as we jumped off really high branches from tree and floated around the entire lagoon. It was a great way to cool down after some hot times. Last but not least on mom's very neat and precise to do list, we went kayaking in the water Rapids of Vang Vieng.  I have to say that was some great fun as me and dad had to race against Elizabeth and mom, of course we had a guide and he showed us the way through the Rapids. We kayaked all the way back to the hotel exactly and between you and me... I think mom was satisfied. But until next time, this has been John and is officially signing out. Some pictures can be show here but I am making a blog about that specific fact, also I am very late in my blogs as I am leaving Hanoi tomorrow late at night and I am starting Viene tiene next blog. Stay with me guys :)!

Vang Vieng is gone already?

Hi there, John here bringing you a bit of a shocker and interesting stories :) of Vang Vieng. First off is the fact that it went by so quickly those 4 nights. As you can probably tell by me saying this is that I am in Vientiane and it is amazing, but while I am writing this blog I realize that Vang Vieng has passed by so fast. But don't worry, we still got amazing and cool story's for you in stock for this blog which will be coming shortly. Okay so here's one, so we arrive at our hotel that is amazingly fancy compared to previous ones we been to with 5 hotel dogs and a crazy nice looking pool right? It was pretty awesome and I loved it a lot, we got to enjoy the pool on the first day and we were out. The next day, the pool was completely out of commission and this was the only reason why mom booked this very hotel in the first place. Things got only a bit worse as me and Elizabeth's room was complete garbage. The first night Elizabeth and I got completely lost on the way back from getting banana pancakes.  We could not remember the name of the hotel or anything and it was dark, past 9pm.  We had left mom and dad at the German restaurant and we just kept walking.  We finally went into another hotel and asked for help. They were incredibly nice to us and knew where we had to be so they suggested they would take us back safely. Me and Elizabeth were in a complete relief phase until the escort told us to get on the back of his motor cycle... It was pretty crazy as Elizabeth sat in the front and me in the back, I literally felt like I was gonna fall off any second, on top it that, the guy went crazy fast and went over crazy speed bumps. It was a crazy experience and we thanked the guy so much, and so we had a great story for we our parents and for you guys! Last thingies on the list were the 5 hotel dogs, they super sweet, adorable, awesome, and crazy dogs. 4 of them were the average expected dogs right, Pretty normal behaviour... Except for the way they sit down, they would sit down with their legs sticking out on the sides and it was the funniest thing, the reason for this is because it's really hot in Laos, and they need to cool down by putting their junk on the cold hard floor of the hotel. If you were wondering why I left one dog to talk about as their is one more, it's because this one is a crazy little rascal! He would run around the entire hotel with the biggest amount of energy and his little tiny legs, in this case it would be appropriate to call him a crazy little furball because his haircut was so funny! His entire body had a small amount of fur but his head was a Pom Pom. Like it was just histarical, but he was nice and sweet. Until next time, this has been john and is officially signing out. Next blog will be on vang Viene as I still need to cover some stuff, pictures are also coming soon!

Kujo, Night Market, And Cool Cards

Hello guys, John here bringing you your last blog in Luang Prabang. If you didin't know, we are already in Vang Viene and I have pretty crazy blogs planned for you guys and not as much in Luang Prabang because it was mostly a relaxing time. Anyways so let's get right to it! Our next door neibours from our hotel have a tiny little rabid dog pet thing that pretty muchs guards the place from me only! I said that he was kindove messed up and looked like he had rabbis because his mouth was red, and so mom decided to give him the name kujo. I would always check if kujo was in his natural habitat or kujo's lair to be more precise, he is pretty scary and he hates me but loves everyone else... Kujo 2015! My main source of food in Luang Prabang is gonna have to be the night market with it's deliciously inspired French, Lao and Thai food. Everyone else was not as keen as going to the night market every night as I was which was kindove lame. My favorite thing of food there which I got most of the time we're these homemade pork dumplings which we're sooooooo gooooooood! I didn't forget the extra spicy that I had on them so that no one would eat them except for me :)! The night market was a unique experience which sometimes didin't go all your way. For instance, my mom got a toffee browning from a vendor and was so excited to eat it, but it was actually fake toffee and was peanuts on a brownie. My mom though this was one of the most devastating times in her life as she was complaining and we never heard the end of it. The last thing that I would like to tell you guys is that me, Elizabeth and mom each got two special cards each at the night market that open up into a cool little paper foley thingy........ Anyways, you just might be lucky enough to get one if the mail system in Laos doesn't fail, but there really awesome and you just might be lucky enough to get one of them from us. We have two each and a cool little way of getting them is if you comment on this blog and maybe comment your address as well so it will be more easy for me. I will show you some pictures of them but as always, until next time, this has been John and is officially signing out. Pictures for other blogs are coming soon I promise! 

Elizabeth's⬇️

John's awesomely better one's⬇️

Mom's⬇️

Rise and shine

Hello guys, John here bringing you the best day in Luang Prabang... Personally! One this very fine day, my lovely mother has organized a tour for the family where we visit the highlights of Luang Prabang in a van filled with Germans, Koreans and sweet sweet Canadiens... eh? We first get deserted alone (Just us Canadiens) at a town called whisky village. We got a tour of whisky town by a nice future monk that of course, involved Lao whisky. Obviously my parents had a blast with the alcohol, but it was kindove lame to me. Our next stop was a Elephant riding camp that we did not ride :(, but we fed them bamboo and loved them with warm hugs :). Dad obviously did not touch them one bit because... Well you know him... He's dad what can you expect. It was weird though that he had no interaction what so ever with them since he's Elmer the safety elephant. Our next stop was the Pakoh Cave of Luang Prabang. I had a great time on the long tail boat ride to the actual caves, from there it was 230 steps to  the top and let me say this... they were steep as heck! We finally reach the top and my slow poke parents/ sister were taking the biggest breather I have ever seen them breathed. We go into the cave with a flashlight provided at the entrance and there were Buddha statues everywhere, a bunch of Buddhist relics that were quite the sight to see. Once me and Elizabeth were done looking, we decided to play in the dark, as we turn of our flashlights blend in with the dark, waiting for our parents to come find us... we definetly gave them quite the spook. On our way back to the van I started to think about how I could have placed the best geocache known to man and how no one though to put one there in the first place. We arrive at the van and take a long drive to reach our final destination! The Kuang Si waterfalls which is a sight to see indeed! It's basically the public pool of Laos, with dangerously awesome waterfalls and piranha like fish in the water, could not get better than that. At the time I loved to climb up into the waterfalls and chill up there while watching the poor people in the water getting nibbled one by one my these decent sized fish which was not pleasant at all when my time came. All in all the tour had been great and thank you mom for booking this wonderful activity for us. Until next time, this has been John and is officially signing out. I'd still keep an eye out for them pictures... You'll never know what's coming!

I finally caught up!

Hello guys, John here bringing you the blog that finally caught up with the 'Live' adventure. Yes! My blogs have finally caught up with what we are doing in the now which is in Laos Luang Prabang. This is not only where I am now but will be talking about!!! So we arrived in Luang Prabang last week and the first thing I noticed at the airport was the amount of tourists here in Laos. It was the most tourists I have seen in like... ever! So I constantly reminded myself that we were not the only ones, we are not standing out from the others, and we are one with Luang Prabang. We arrive at the hotel that mom had booked for us, but they said we needed to stay one night at the backpacker hotel for our room to be made. We agree and as told, we spend one night there, I did not realize this until later but Elizabeth noticed the big amounts of spider web in the bathroom and so I just though of all the worst possibilitys that could happen with spiders at night, what I was the most afraid of was the possibility of a spider going in my ear and reaching my brain. I was scared of this because Deidra the cuz told me a story about her roommate next door sleeping and waking up with hearing issues, he went to the doctor and said their was a huge spider in his head and so on... It did not turn out well let me tell you that! The next day was more of a walk around/ get to know the place kindove day, me and dad went for a super cool geocache that was hidden in a mini stupa on the grounds of a Buddhist temple (One of my favorite cache's). For dinner we went to the Lao night market for baguettes and dumpling and coconut mini pancakes, everything good was there! I was confused about why their we're baguettes in Laos but then mom gave me one of them boring 'Edjucating Lectures' about Luang Prabang's history and that was crazy fun! Gotta end it their so until next time, this has been John and is officially signing out, pictures are not needed if you are blind :).

Sailing after hours

Hello guys, John here bringing you what we did exactly after the sailing trip as we did not fly out of Koh Samui... yet. So we decided to stay in Koh Samui a bit longer to relax after our hard working sailing adventure. My way of relaxing was apparently not the same as everyone else's because I was playing video games at a place called the J.A.M. Basically you can pay 1 dollar for an hour on a beast gaming pc, I then downloaded my favourite game and off I went into the gaming world of CS GO. But I didin't just play video games the whole time, remember the geocache that I hid? Well I checked on it in the geocaching website and they gave me a harsh email saying that My geocache did not qualify as geocaching quality. I won't mention the whole thing because it's pretty harsh but my geocache did not get published :(. I then buried myself with video games and alcohol as my depression intensified (Alcohol is child language for Apple juice). I eventually played to much and got all of my electronics taken away because my family did not now where I was (Jamming at the J.A.M :). After the sad turn of events, Our room got upgraded to a super sweet sweet, get it? It was really nice and all but I kept sleeping with Elizabeth which was not all that plesent, I will not call her out too much as I am by allowed. Until next time, this has been john and is officially signing out. No pictures yet guys!

The best mother ever

Hello guys, John here bringing you different blog.  This happened a long time ago and luckily found its way back to me today. If you guys weren't aware which was probably the case as  I haven't told anyoneas it made me very sad... I lost my iPad in Japan! Let me back up ... we arrive on the airport bus taking us to the Norita airport in Tokyo. I randomly forget my iPad in the little pouch in front of the seat.  Pretty dumb and a rookie mistake.  I actually only realized that I left the iPad on the bus only after we boarded our plane for Bangkok. I eventually lost hope and began to sob all over the place.  Everyone except for Elizabeth had lost hope, they said it's almost impossible to get it back, the mail system is really poor in Laos.  The only way it will arrive in time in Laos was express post luckily we were going to stay in Luang Prabang for 10 days. I will strongly admit that that was the worst 6 hours of my life because we had no way to communicate with the bus company or anything. I eventually started to wonder every little bad thing that could happen, will someone steel it, will it get dropped on the floor and become broken or will someone take all of my user data to track me down and assassinate me? I DON'T EVEN KNOW BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE  INTERNET ACCESS on the plane! It was torture let's just say that. We arrived in Bangkok and my mom got to work on tracking down the iPad right away.  It took days and many Skype calls to Japan but she was successful and tracked everything down, shipping status, tracking Id, every little thing and I am so happy because guess what? It arrived in Luang Prabang today! The tracking Id said that it was in Vientiane since July 30 and we were getting worried that it would never make it to Luang Prabang.  But then she phone led the post office in Vientiane with the help of he hotels staff speaking Laotian and they said it was at the post office in Luang Prabang ...it was in Luang Prabang the entire time despite what the online tracker said.  We had to walk to the post office twice as the first time it was closed. Let me remind you that pretty much everyone lost hope... EVERYONE! I know that dad is the butt of my jokes, but as soon as I told him on the plane, he was like 'Yeah sorry john and everything but it's never gonna come back' AND I'M LIKE 'WHAT THE HECK IS THAT! ARE YOU KIDDING ME, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE SLIGHTEST AMOUNT OF HOPE?' He was like 'No'. Great parenting skills to set me for my life dad thanks I really appreciate it. So it arrived and I'm like in 'IN YOUR FACE DAD! THAT WILL SHOW YOU MY INNER CHI BABY!'. Miracles are real because let me slowly point out that Laos's mail system is not the greatest. Let me tell you why that is the title of my blog, once I finally got the packaging in my hands, mom made me repeat and repeat and repeat the same 4 words 'The greatest mom ever', which I do admit she is for going through all this trouble by talking to Japanese strangers over the phone and more. Thank you mom so much, you are truly 'The greatest mom ever'. Until next time guys, this has been John and is officially signing out and is not up for pictures SO STOP BADGERING ME, I WILL DO IT WHEN I'M READY JEEZ!

More sailing life

Hello, John here bringing you more in the life of sailing. Another 'death activity' that I did which is the last, was basically a death wish for me. Once again, on the sailboat, there were these two paddle boards, so the skipper of the boat asked me if I wanted to have some fun, he attaches one of the paddle parts to the back of the dingy and we go for a Thai tubing ride. Fun right! Speaking of the dingy, we used it to get on land at every dinner time too eat at the top quality restaurant of Thailand and for top notch breakfast in the morning. We did a lot of snorkelling on in the sea, we were able to see all the wonderful coral and creatures of the deep, it was all beautiful except for the time I cut my foot on some coral and let it bake in salt water, now that was not fun. Did I miss anything... OH YES THE CABINS. So me and dad got to bunk together in the smallest cabin, kind ice like the train but smaller, we had our own bathroom that DIDIN'T EVEN HAVE TOILET PAPER, IN WHICH WE HAD TO SPRAY OUR BUTT HOLES WITH THE HAND SHOWER (the captain said it was the best feeling of his life... Talk about TMI am I right?). One last thing, you know my father right? He was pretty much the centre of attention on this trip... He knew it from the moment we stepped on the boat and he showed it by saying the saddest yet embarrassing joke at the end of the safety tutorial 'One question, what's the wifi password?'... I don't even have to criticize that one buddy. Anyways this has been john and is officially signing out. I will do the pictures when I want thank you!

The sailing life

Hello there, John here and bringing you the blog that shares the life on a sailboat. So if you weren't aware of how we winded up on a sailboat boat for 4 days and 3 nights with a German captain and a Thai skipper, exploring the gulf of Thailand with tons of 'death activitys'... Well now you know! Anyways so on this sorta wonderful trip (It was really dad's turn to shine and have fun), there we're these things called a death activity, I'll give you them all but they are sorta like 'Oh my gosh I could've died' moments but as an activity! So on this sailing trip there we're two paddles boards that we could use, now I thought it was great and I got to learn how to paddle board and had a ton of fun like rumble derbeing dad until he falls off his board. The reason why this is a 'Death activity' is because the captain said that there we're jellyfish in the water because it was open sea, that really worried me and got me in a paranoid position so every time I went into the water, I never took my eyes of the water. The next 'death activity' was when the captain let dad drive the sail boat, I was completely happy that dad got to do one of his favourite things on the real deal but then I realized he wasen't any better of a driver on land than in the water. So we all (Including the captain and skipper) got seasick, motion sickness, drown in waves and in fact threw everything off the shelves, I in fact almost fell off the boat. I wondered what was the cause of all this havoc, I in fact look at our 'new captain' AND I SEE THAT HE IS BEING FED BY MOM SOME PAPAIYA LIKE A BABY WHILE MOM IS MAKING THE 'here comes the airplane ZOOM!'. Talk about parental guidance am I right? Anyways I actually wrote this thing called a john ambush on dad's blog which talks about how dad almost killed me or even acted a bit like a grizzly bear, this might not happen as often as you think cause I have to sneak on his iPad a right my segment I the shortest amount of time which is tricky. But just keep an eye out for them, you can catch up on some great gossip from dad's everyday life so don't miss out. Anyways I think I'll end it here and call it a day... I'M SORRY I DIDIN'T GET MY PICTURES UP! YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAD. Until next time this ha been john and is officially signing out.

Koh Samui Fun!

Hello, John here and giving you today's blog which is exclusively broadcasted in Koh Samui where we talk about how I got there and what sorta tropical fun did we do. The first thing that I would like to mention is the overnight train that we took from Bangkok to Koh Samui, I was all excited to get on this train since mom told me it was 'First class', obviously I am a kid and expected a luxury room with 4 king size bed and has a beautiful moving scenic view with a jacuzzi hot tub. But then I heard mom and dad did this before and said it was a 'Fun learning experience'... This part exactly was when my dreams drifted away into the dark abiss of boredom, as soon as I got on the train, it was not as bad as I though because I was expecting to sleep with Elizabeth in a dirty little cubby hole. Turned out great cause I got to sleep in a bunk bed and I bunked with my father, Pop's... Cause once you pop you can't stop. It was a rough time but I found it pretty fun living in close quarters, because if I ever wanna move to japan, I better get use to thist. So we arrive in Koh Samui by taking another transportation which was that ferry, it was nice and all since we were able to watch Alvin and the chipmunks shipwrecked in Thai, I have to say there lips were going nowhere as the words of what I think sounded like did not follow at all... Thailand everybody! We finally arrive in Koh Samui and we stay at this air bnb owned by this cool rockstar guy called Egor with a goth wife (Rocking the mow hawk btw). It was all nice and everything except for the fact that me and Elizabeth had to sleep in dirt every night? We don't know why dirt keeps showing up in our bed every night specifically after we dust it all off. In Koh Samui we did a lot of resort action while in the nice pool and ate a lot of interesting food. We kept eating at the same 2 places, one place was a family vender on the beach selling all sort of good like papaya salad to chicken satay to fried prawn??? We also went to the friendly frog because it was so friendly, that it tasted so good. So that was basically Koh Samui, but no doubt about it I had a bunch of fun and am now because I just finished the 3 night sailing trip and back in Koh Samui for another 4 days of relaxing (Don't worry my sailing blog is coming soon, also if you read my dad's blog about sailing, I did an ambush which is where I wrote as much as I can about whatever funny moments of fails dad did while in the time presence of the blog. Anyways I think I camouflaged it well because he posted it without noticing it!!!! Mission accomplished, stay tuned in his blog for more of those realistic moments, this is a way too long bracket but who can stop me! MWAHAHAH!). Oh yah before I end this blog, I do remember the most exciting activity that me and dad did, if you remember earlier from another blog about what geocaching is. Me and dad made one and hid it, I found this super fun because I got to call Elizabeth and mom our 'Guinea Pigs' since they were testing the geocache and I loved when I was submitting everything in to the website so that one day it gets published. I doubt it will but fingers crossed! I called the cache 'JellyKid's Jam and hid it on the beach of Koh Samui. That is all I can think of at the moment and I am pretty tired from 4 days of sailing. But maybe when I do my blogs about Koh Samui right now I will mention more. But until next time guys, this has been John and is officially signing out, why am I not putting pictures up may you ask? Cause I'm lazy and haven't got no time time!