Easton - The Crayola Factory

Every kid who visit Pennsylvania must not miss the Crayola Factory. It is one big fun place that has lots of hands-on activities for all.


Easton city center

The Crayola Factory....kids just want to have all the fun!






An end to everything

Everything has an end, even a great holiday will eventually come to an end. Two and a half weeks of holiday for my nephews have finally come to an end. I am just glad that they had fun and they got to see the snow and play with it. And of course the adults have their own fun too - outlet shopping!


Yes, that's my sister, their mother packing up all her loot!
Three large suitcases and multiple carton boxes!

It was great having them although there were days where my stress level was at 'explosion' point. With four very active kids, what could one expect. Now, they have all gone home, will be arriving at Singapore in three hours time. Here I am, at home with my two wonderful kids, in a very quiet, sunny but cold afternoon.

Philly...finally

We have been in Pennsylvania for so long but we have yet to visit Philadelphia. We finally got a chance to visit this great city together with our relations. Philly is a beautiful city with many histories. In my opinion, Philly is many times better than NYC.


The modern skycrapers...


the old historical buildings...


...a great mix of the old and new, tastefully done. So, do we really always need to demolish the old to make way for the new?


Inside the Liberty Bell Center


The Liberty Bell


The Independence Hall


The statue of the Signer


Statue of George Washington


Driving on the Benjamin Franklin bridge

Poconos in winter

We drove to the Poconos Mountains. The Poconos was bursting with bright colours in autumn. In winter, it is covered in a sea of pure white snow. One word to describe 'AWESOME'


The ski mountain


Sliding down the snow-covered mountain


Bringing the tube up the slope...


All ready to slide....(sorry no pixs on the way down but it was fun!)


Mummy said when she was a little girl, she ate ice ball as big as this snow ball.


Ann building her snow fortress


That was me! Climbing the snow mountain was not easy but it sure helped to shed off some calories. Finally...made it


Snow turning to ice. Do you know that no two snowflakes are the same?


Part of the lake was already frozen


The swans on the frozen lake

On such a cold day, what is the best dish to have? Hot indian curry! God is good isn't He? He knows all our needs. Believe it or not, we found an indian restaurant in the Poconos.


It has a train carriage eating area


Inside the train carriage and the scenary outside


Mutton curry with papadums. Oooo... heavenly

All the fun things....

Since my sister's family arrived, I hardly have time to blog. They left for home yesterday and now the house is back to its normal self - peaceful and quiet and time for some blogging...

Downtown Ontario, Canada


"Fi-fai-fum-fum....who are these kids sitting on my chair"


Outside Frankenstein's castle...even he needs a burger


Ripley's believe it or not museum. Great place for all!

The wonderful thing about going on a road trip is that you will spot some beautiful and rare sight...it's now close to winter and birds are migrating to warmer places...

This rare sight of birds migrating was captured by hubby. Notice the birds flying together and forming the letter 'Y' in the far end


Ann turns 4!

Yes, while sister and gang were here, Ann turned 4!!! My little princess is now a little lady

I baked these little cookies and packed them into these colourful boxes for her to bring to school to give out to all her classmates

In the evening, we had a great Chinese dinner.

Princess Ann and her castle cake


The Disney Princess Castle cake. The sleeping beauty is Ann's favourite princess.