Staying Healthy While Traveling

Staying in shape , not breaking any bones and getting all the shots for your trip are all very important.

 First thing you should do is look up all the places you are traveling so that you can call your doctor to make sure that you have all the shots that you need. I am not a person who loves getting  shots so it was a very scary experience to get them. I had to get 3 shots but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

 To prevent feeding your tummy something that will make it upset we took anti malaria.So that if we ate the wrong food that we would not get sick.

Staying in shape. We love to walk around and go to markets and seeing sights. So we do a lot of walking. You have to be in shape to be able to take long trips so you will not get tired too easily.

 Not breaking bones. Breaking bones usually means that you have to end the trip. When we were on the cruise we talked to a man in the elevator who's wife had broken her leg and they had to fly home. So be careful! 

You can hurt yourself but not have to stop your trip. My Mom hurt her knee and she had  to go to the doctor. She was okay and we did not have to stop the trip. I hurt my knee but I did not go to the doctors and it was not as big of a deal as my moms. My dad was bending over to pick something up and he bent his rib and he took it easy and we had to miss all the stops in Egypt but he still hurt after that. At the end of the trip it stopped hurting but we did not stop the trip for it. But most importantly have fun but just make sure to be careful! 

We got to meet Chef Morimoto!

Morimoto is one of my favorite restaurants. We have been there a bunch of times. My mom found a sushi class with Iron Chef Morimoto. When we arrived at Morimoto we got a bunch of delicious appetizers like pork belly with congee, hamachi tacos, and tuna pizzas. Then we got to go inside to be seated and we saw Iron Chef Morimoto! He demonstrated how to make and eat sushi. He made tuna rolls and a salmon and avocado hand roll. Then we had to do what he did. My Dad was having some trouble so Chef Morimoto came and helped him.

 
It was amazing!After making sushi we got a 4 course meal made by him. We started by having a salad with seared tuna it was so good!



 For our 2nd course we had more sushi I liked the one with hamachi in it and my mom liked the red snapper. They served it with a miso tofu soup and that  was yummy. 



For the 3rd course we had steak and a hollowed out potato with mashed potatoes inside. 




For our last course we had dessert it was a coconut foam and in the middle was mango ice cream and on the very bottom there were yuzu pop rocks plus tapioca balls. I ate mine and my Dad's. 

  The adults had a bunch of sake. We stayed an hour after everybody left with 2 other couples at our table and one was a wine journalist. 




A couple of days before the dinner it was Chef Morimoto's birthday, so when we first got to the restaurant I started making a birthday card for Iron chef Morimoto. It had a Mickey on it with a sushi hat that said Morimoto . The sushi hat that I drew on mickey looks exactly like the people who make sushi at the sushi bar. Inside I wrote happy birthday Iron Chef Morimoto and I also wrote Happy Birthday in Japanese. He even put it up on the big screen for everyone to see.

 The dinner sadly had to come to an end. But we had a wonderful time!

Tap Pack

One night on the ship there was a show called the Tap Pack. 

The Tap Pack is 4 guys that are Australian who love Rat Pack songs and know how to tap dance. I saw the show with my friend Kathleen and it was really good.  They did a dance from Royal Wedding with the microphone holder in their show. Royal Wedding is one of my favorite Fred Astaire movies.

We ran into them at the buffet and I told them that I really liked Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. My favorite Fred and Ginger movie is Roberta it is about a band leader and he then inherits a fashion store called Roberta from his Aunt Minnie. I have watched Roberta more than 10 times.  Another one of my favorites is Swing Time. Swing Time is about a dancer and a dance teacher. The dancer winds up being late for his wedding so he catches a train and that is where he meets the dance teacher. The dance teachers name is Penny and the dancer steals a quarter from her purse. Then she calls the police over and he does not think that the dancer stole the quarter. So the Policeman lets it slide.

The Tap Pack guys were surprised how much I knew about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 

Pylones

Pylones is one of my favorite shops in Paris. It has a bunch of cool stuff. 

One of my favorites is Davincheese which is a cheese knife that is designed to look like a paint brush.







I also love their cat eyed glasses which actually have cats ears at the end and in the middle of the 2 glasses there is a cat nose.





Last year I really wanted to get a chef paper towel holder. where the paper towels look like the chef's body. 

This year, we bought a cake candle stand which looks like a candelabra. But it makes the cake classy and glamorous. 





There is a cat clock and the tail goes back and forth. 








They also have a ring that has an alarm clock on it and it is an actual clock! 



Another thing they have is a sponge holder and the holder is a dog and you can put the sponge in his mouth and the sponge is shaped like a bone. 




They have a Queen of England bobble head and instead of her head bobbling her hand goes left and right. 








Another cool thing they have is a cat back scratcher. So here is how it works there is a cat and it has its 2 paws so when you scratch your back with it it looks like the cat is scratching you 





They had a balloon powered race car and I really wanted to get it for my friend. How you get it to go is at the end of the race car there is a balloon. You blow up the balloon and when you let it go, the car races forward.






I could keep going, there are so many fun things. That is why I love Pylones and I cannot pass by a Pylones store without looking in the window and going in. 

Exotic Fruits

During our travels we've tried lots of different fruits. Wherever we go we always try to find exotic fruit to try:

Mangosteen: is like a bunch of different kinds of fruit like orange and pineapple and mango. It has a bunch of segments like an orange. 

Jackfruit: If you ever taste jackfruit and you have had tutti fruitti gum it will taste like the gum ,because jackfruit is what it is based on.

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Dragon fruit: looks like a dragons back and inside it has a bunch of seeds  and it is very watery. But it is great in smoothies. 

Longon: Is like a litchi  but a little bit sweeter and it comes in a different shell almost like a nut shell. 

Passionfruit: is an oval shape and when you cut it open it has a bunch of yellow seeds. Now the seeds are edible  and if you try to not eat the seeds you will have a really hard time eating the passionfruit

Dates: are dried fruit that dries out your mouth but is super duper sweet. Dates are very popular in the Middle East.

Star fruit: is like an orange and when you cut it, it looks like a star.

How to dress like a local

Being accepted in a country is a big deal. Wearing the right clothes, being respectful and saying the right things plus there are many more things to learn when you travel. For this blog, I am just going to talk about how to dress like a local. A big part about it is understanding why they wear something or why they have their hair cut in a certain way. 

One of the things that I learned when we visited the Amish area of Pennsylvania is that if an Amish woman is wearing a black hat on her head it means she is married.

In Oman, if you see a man in a certain long dress (dishdasha) it means he is from Oman (non-Omani's are forbidden from wearing the dishdasha).. I also learned that the dishdasha has a tassel on it to dip in perfume. If the person is in a place that does not smell that good they can just put the tassel up to their nose and they smell the perfume instead. 


In Paris they wear the same things that we do except a season ahead.


In places like the United Arab Emirates you have to be covered in certain places like your legs and your shoulders have to be covered. In many places women should also cover their hair.





Many Muslim women wear a mask when they are out in public because they do not want men looking at their face or body. The only thing I can't figure out is -  how do they eat? They might get stuff on their dress trying to put food in their mouth. 

I have learned a lot about clothing and how to do stuff like a local while traveling and I hope to learn more!

Who inspired me to travel

My Mom and Dad really like to travel. My Dad got to travel when he was a kid over the summer. My Dad's parents were teachers and they got every summer off. So what did they do? Travel! They have gone to many really cool places like Japan, Europe and Russia. He has also been to Australia and New Zealand.

My Mom took lots of trips to Disneyland with her family and traveled to Washington State most summers. She also liked to take road trips with her friend. Before she met my Dad, she had a job where she did a lot of traveling around the United States.

When my Mom and Dad were dating they thought about having a family and that they would travel around the world for a wonderful education. So that is exactly what they did!

In addition to my Mom and Dad, lots of people inspire me to travel. People that I meet on my travels and travel blogs because they tell you about all the cool places you can go and food that you can eat there.