hey guys we're going to Singapore this is the first video in our Singapore
travel series where we're gonna be talking you through everything that
we're doing to plan and execute our trip to Singapore including budgeting and all
of that other logistical stuff and then of course when we go on go to Singapore
we'll be taking you guys right along with us on our family travel vlog
They're not going to see our packing are they? yeah. Like my underwear?
hey guys welcome to one big happy five months ago we booked plane tickets to
Singapore it was kind of on a whim Tasha got an alert about a great deal
and just we took the plunge just within 20 minutes of finding out and it's
gonna be incredibly awesome we've been looking forward to it ever since then. All year.
oh yeah super excited and so we decided to do a video series before we even get
there when we walk you through kind of all of the steps that go into planning
and budgeting for a trip and you know just kind of cause we don't know anything
about Singapore right so and we don't do a lot of international travel and I
think a lot of people want to travel more but really kind of don't know how
so we're hoping that this this series of videos will be really useful and you
know as you guys go on to planning your own international trips right I think
especially with kids right because everybody thinks that you have to give up
traveling if you have kids especially young kids and so we're going to show
that no you don't you can definitely travel definitely still do the things
that you want to do and even if they don't remember it the you will and
that's something to really take into account why travel like why is that
important so for us I mean we want to see the world we want to experience new
cultures and really and also new places see things that you don't get to see
anywhere in the United States and there's gonna be lots of that even I
mean just anywhere and in Singapore I'm super excited for the Hawker centers
which is supposed to be really cheap super delicious food so looking forward
to that and also I think the biggest reason to travel is really to build
memories with your family countless studies really have shown that
you don't get much happiness from buying things compared to experiences that that
you have and so the best way to get just some really intense experiences is to go
somewhere take a trip because then you've got a week eight days ten days or
whatever of everybody being together everybody doing fun things not not your
regular everyday tasks cooking all your food, doing laundry, cleaning yoru house.
yeah and so not only do we get happiness like a long
lasting happiness now we as in people from traveling from vacationing but we
also get tons of happiness in the months leading up to the vacation because
you've got that anticipation happiness and I tell you I've been looking forward
to this like and just I can't believe that it's right around the corner
because the next November is only one month away now so I think we've been
planning and scouting out different things we want to do four months and it
has been awesome just looking forward to that so that's just another way of like
generating happiness in your life take a trip right and I think every
time that we've done that research we've gotten really excited because we know
that it's gonna be fun mm-hmm so let's take a look at some of the past travel
that we have done so I did not travel much as a child my parents would go on
vacations without me and my brother so the only travel that I've really done has been
as an adult I've gone to Orlando to Disneyworld a couple of times and I was
fortunate enough that my parents did take me to quite a few places I don't
think that we really did a any international travel I think I took a
step into Canada one time with them but I mean it's still watch it lots of fun I
have great memories from doing all the traveling with them and since we've been
together we've gone on with two vacations so we did a Texas two major
vacation yeah we did a Texas staycation where we went to San Antonio
went to the Alamo then we went to Schlitterbahn which is this water park
in Texas and it's just awesome it's so much fun and then we hung out on the
shore somewhere I don't even know where we were. Rockville. Joseph did all of the planning
yeah yeah which was really right and so that that town in general was really
affected by the hurricane so like I was thinking about the place that we stayed
it was right near in the beach so I hope hope it's still there because it was a fantastic little town It was really nice.
and then we went to my family reunion two years ago 2015 we went to Antigua and that was
my first and only international travel trip and that was for my family reunion
and I just I just loved it it was just so much fun and after having done that
and finally been outside of the United States I'm like what have I been doing
why haven't I been traveling more and going outside of the United States so
when I saw those sweet tickets to Singapore I'm like we gotta go and also
we normally take a trip around Thanksgiving anyway it's just we go to
Texas so that was some of that like the flights the cost of the flights was
already sort of built into our budget because we normally spend a certain
amount of money to travel for Thanksgiving right anyway and it's
shockingly expensive to travel during Thanksgiving anyway
yeah our flights were cheaper to Singapore than they normally are to
Texas so that was a pret. .. is a good deal why Singapore obviously like we said we
scored a really really good deal on the flights
and it it's also well known to you to be a lot of fun people speak English on a
large scale there I mean when you get into foreign countries frequently you'll
find you know pockets of other languages anyway that that you don't run into here
as much but but there English is I think everybody speaks English just about so it will be easy to get around
yeah and since we haven't... it's not that we're opposed to go into countries who
don't primarily speak English. Oh Right! but obviously we're a bigger hurdle involved
and because. this is our first time it. Yeah. so it's like well so let's ease our
feet in so it's not it's not the same as like going to England where obviously
everything's in English but it's it's a little bit different and I'm
anticipating that we're gonna be doing a lot more travel and honestly so we're
gonna be gone for eight days and that's because it's in the middle of the school
year so we can't pull Alexis out of school forever but ideally I would have
loved we both would have loved to be there for maybe two weeks so we could go
into Malaysia go to Kuala Lumpur like really get a good taste of Asia instead
of just going to Singapore but that's all we're doing this time around just
Singapore so things that we're gonna be covering in our upcoming videos so we're
gonna go over kind of how to plan a trip but logistics and all the different
things that you should that you could should think of when you're planning a
trip and in particular I would say international travel because certain
things are prob. . . are less necessary if you're just gonna be doing like a
road trip or a camping trip some kind of local travel versus a bigger trip where
you're leaving your state or even your country right and we're gonna talk about
how to budget for the travel because obviously you don't want to ever have to
borrow to do a vacation and so you want to know you want to know what you
have up front and plan stay within it speaking of which we're also gonna be
doing a video on traveling while you're in debt
Cause I know that someone's gonna say something about that like oh well you
should wait until you're completely out of debt before you travel we disagree we
believe in balance you guys you guys know this hopefully if
you're new here welcome but we believe in taking a balanced approach to
personal finance so you can work towards your financial goal goals paying down
debt saving for emergencies saving for your financial future while also
enjoying your life it is possible to do multiple things at once. It absolutely is. yes so some some
of the other things we're going to talk about the process to go through get our
passport what we had to do all the research to find the hotel things to do
places to eat all that fun stuff yeah things that that we need to take
with us because it Reeves is a toddler and so that's this whole list of things
just for him and then of course when we go on the trip we're going to be
vlogging and we want it to be as if you guys are right there with us
experiencing the best that Singapore has to offer
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