Hey guys, it's Chika!
Look where I am, we are at the airport.
Oh my gosh you guys, a new travel video.
With things finally opening up,
we are getting ready to start exploring again.
Last month we visited Amami Ōshima
for a brand new travel experience.
Now that Pudding is old enough
to ask a lot of questions and to understand a lot of things,
travel is a great opportunity to learn
and be creative in ways we might not be at home.
So on this trip, I wanted to explore this concept
of educating through travel,
and incorporated activities to enrich our experience.
I'm not gonna lie, traveling with kids is not easy.
It can be stressful, it's definitely exhausting,
but it's so rewarding to watch your kids
soak up so much knowledge and experience.
And you know, it's not just them learning and growing,
but yourself too.
So let's get started, I'm gonna share with you guys
all about our trip.
I hope this trip gives you a new outlook on how to travel
and inspires you guys to get out there.
Of course we're with Pudding,
and Clover is sitting now.
Pudding's got her own purse and she's got Jetkids,
her own suitcase she can ride on.
This was so convenient to have,
I ended up just hooking it to the stroller and off we went.
The wheels are really smooth
and it helped us get through the airport quickly
and with little whining.
And obviously it's very hard to vlog and make videos
with little ones.
So we got some help this time.
Meg!
You guys have seen her in a previous video
Hello!
And, not only did Meg help us with the filming,
she helped us out with the kids as well.
And my money.
You have money?
Wow.
And my hankachi .
And I have spray .
Why?
So hectic.
We got here early and still we're running.
Oh, they're here. Come on!
I'm surprised we were able to get on.
Can I eat something, mommy?
Yeah. You can eat the sandwich once we fly, okay?
♪ A new place, a new home for a while, let me feel alive ♪
♪ Nothing to hold me back, take my time ♪
♪ Just enjoy the ride ♪
I know flights can be very intimidating
if you've got kids,
but if they're old enough to focus a bit,
it's actually a great time to do some learning activities
and preparation for your trip.
I actually made a few workbook activities themed
around a Amami Ōshima for Pudding to do on her iPad.
I had some illustrations related to the island
that we used as talking points.
I also had a Amami Ōshima written in both English
and Japanese that she could trace to practice writing
and a few other activities to get us in the vacation spirit.
She actually got really into it
which I was very happy about because I had stayed
up quite late the night before making it.
And after playing a few other games, we were there!
♪ Cause I found my way ♪
Mommy!
♪ Cause I found my way ♪
Let's go!
♪ Cause I found my way ♪
There's one baby sleeping and another baby sleeping.
Of course, the first thing we gotta do
When we get to a new place is learn about the local food.
Where are you going with mommy's shoes?
We had a local dish called Keihan,
where you top white rice
with various ingredients and pour chicken broth over.
Oo.
We have ochazuke, which is a rice dish
that you pour tea over
and eat, which is really good.
Sometimes you'll have a fish broth
but this is chicken broth.
Actually very, very good.
Okay. So we just had lunch
and now we are gonna take a little walk
to the beach to see the heart rock
which is a natural tidal pool.
Let's go!
We're in the forest.
Some people lived here a long long time ago.
You explaining to us the history of the forest?
After lunch, we took a walk
through a tropical forest to go see the heart rock.
Oh, we're getting close to the beach.
Look at this!
The beach!
This reminds me of the beach
we went to when we were
on the Great Ocean Road in Australia.
See these little tiny pools?
There's gonna be one that has a heart in it.
Let's go see if we can find it.
Well, here's a little one!
A little tidal pool.
See all the holes?
I found it!
Where?
The heart rock is a heart shaped tidal pool
and trying to find it in this field
of tidal pools is actually a lot of fun.
This is the one that Pudding found,
which actually was kind of heart shaped.
What about this one?
It's a heart!
It's a whole heart!
But this is the actual heart rock.
You get this stuff over there!
Oh good, are you going to eat it again?
When you were a baby,
we were in Guam and you put that in your mouth.
You really did.
See how that one was
like busting out of its shell.
When she opened her mouth, it was busting out.
I was like, what do you have in your mouth?
And she goes, "Ah," and it goes "Rrahh!"
Oh my god!
What was that?
Although she didn't eat any this time,
she wanted to start a collection.
It's coming out.
It's shy.
Oh, I found another one.
Okay, okay. They're getting a little crowded on your hand.
Why?
They're like, "Ah, I can't move!"
This is how our bed is.
It's like our bed at home.
It's pretty fast.
Yes.
It was great to go somewhere with a lot of nature
because all you have to do is step outside.
And there are so many discoveries to be made.
Bye Mr. hermit crab!
Right by the heart rock was a shop where
you could go get ice cream made out of goat's milk.
And it was perfect because it was snack time.
We enjoyed the ice cream in the car so much so
that we forgot to vlog about it
but it was really creamy, and Pudding at most of it.
All right.
We are almost at the resort where we're staying.
It's called The Scene
and we've driven about two hours from the airport.
So it's way down south.
Oh, it's right by the beach.
We are here.
Beach! There's a beach there!
I can see our car.
Look at the heart.
Yeah.
So this resort,
although a bit aways from the airport,
was such a great place for us to stay.
It was rainy season.
So the first two days we were there,
it was quite chilly and very wet.
But on a nice day, the place looks like this.
We've actually been talking to this resort
about a possible collaboration to produce
our very own unique travel plan that people can experience
while they're here.
And of course that means
we've gotta experience it for ourselves first.
In this vlog, I'm gonna share with you guys
a quick room tour,
but in the following two vlogs to come
about our trip to Amami Ōshima
you will see exactly why we had such a great time here.
Let's go!
We need makeup to make up right.
Are you okay?
I hope we get a sunny day!
Let's cross our fingers for a sunny day.