3 May 2012

The family participated in the Pinoy Families Day Excursion to Muscat, Oman – a 400-km travel RT travel with 5 other families and friends exploring different parts of the locality and spending some fun times playing bowling, billiards and ice skating on the side

8 – 9 March 2012

The family spent a weekend at The Chedi, Muscat in celebration of Mommy Alice’s birthday. With the longest infinity pool in the Arabian Gulf, a choice of four different pools, nice beach and superb resort landscape (and of course, sumptuous food), it was a fantastic outing indeed!

7 March 2012

The family is excited for tomorrow’s Chedi stay. This is in celebration of Mommy Alice’s birthday

21 January 2012

The family arrived from a week-long winter trip in Prague, Czech Republic. The return flight home took almost 24 hours, as we had to change planes three times (two layovers). The first leg of our trip was from Prague to Amsterdam, then Amsterdam to Bahrain, and finally from Bahrain to Muscat. We were finally able to reach home by 7:00am of 21st January.

16 January 2012

The family arrived in Prague after almost 10 hours of air travel. We went directly to Kutna Hora (a UNESCO Heritage site) and visited important sites there. Kutna Hora is about 60 miles away from Prague and is about 1 hour 30 minutes by car. We went back to Prague in the afternoon, checked in at our hotel very near the famous Charles Bridge, rested for a while watching the light snow falling from our hotel window which is also overlooking the Vltava River and Charles Bridge. Later in the evening, we had the popular Beef Ghoulash for dinner at the banks of the Vltava River.

First week of January 2012

We have finalized our next European Trip, a week-long trip to Prague, Czech Republic, to start on 15th January. The family is currently preparing its winter gear

First week of December 2011

Just last week, the family went on an off-road activity climbing the so-called Grand Canyon of Arabia in Jabal Shams area. we spent a short time at the summit (about an hour and a half) and enjoyed the nice weather there.

(For photos, go to http://lontokfamily.multiply.com/photos/album/37/The_Grand_Canyon_of_Arabia_Jebel_Shams)

1st – 2nd week of November 2011

Our recent international travel was in Munich, Germany. We stayed there for a week, making side trips to Fussen and Augsburg, as well as to Salzburg in Austria. It was the first week of autumn in Germany when we went there, and a week after the famous OktoberFest celebrations. The weather is starting to get cold, and thus, we had our first family experience of autumn in Europe.