Ideas and resources for planning a family reunion vacation. These are the actual family reunion vacations I’ve planned and taken.
It was the highlight of our trip to California for my husband to play on one of his all-time favorite golf courses, Riviera Country Club! This is a PGA golf tournament in conjunction with Tiger Woods’ foundation. He was invited to be part of the San Jose State foursome to support one of their players,…
My husband booked us at the Jen Hotel in Singapore when I helped my daughter move into her dorm room at National University of Singapore (NUS). It’s part of the Shangri La hotel company and located very centrally in Orchard Gateway. We discovered that we were right next door to the subway and across the…
Included in our Singapore Food Tour was a cultural and history lesson so we were quite excited to go inside the massive Buddhist temple in Chinatown, The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, which has several floors and is both a temple and a museum! I would have been intimidated to go inside without our tour guide….
I consider it money well spent to take a Singapore Hawker food tour with Secret Food Tour to see the secret streets and treats. My daughter and I were eager to eat at the famous Hawker stalls but there are so many, even at one location! Our tour guide Monica was terrific. Not only did…
It’s been a longstanding tradition to take Afternoon Tea as a special family bonding time, sans men. I used to do this with my mother, both before I had children, and afterwards with toddlers. Somehow dressing up the girls in fancy dresses to sip lemonade from tea cups put them on their best behavior, thought…
My husband’s college roommate, Michael Castillo, is visiting us here in Boston. He’s the head pro for The Plantation Course on Kapalua, a resort in Maui. The fires have been devastating and it’s not always clear what is the best way to help those affected. I talked to Michael for ideas. The first, and most…
I’ll be in Singapore for the next two weeks so I won’t be posting here on my blog for a bit. I’ll be posting again starting August 14th. If you want to see what I’m up to, follow me on Instagram where I’ll be posting pics of the Supertree Grove featured in Food for the…