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Las Vegas Baby!

We spent the last few days of 2017 in LV. It was our first road trip since we got to LA. We held back road trips for a while as Charlotte does not do well in cars. She is still not the best but I think she's getting better. Mummy was all prepared for our virgin road trip. I brought along an old school potty in the car which proved to be very very useful. *pat on my back* The trip there was supposed to be about a 4 hours drive. So we did a stop over in between at barstow outlet to do a bit of shopping. I was also totally prepared for the stop over. I brought fried rice and sandwich for our lunch! Charlotte was pleased with her lunch. She gave me a LIKE! hah Basically, Charlotte spent most of her time either eating or sleeping in the car. She was surprisingly good on the journey there. We even encountered a jam. Thus it took us a longer time to get to LV. But Charlotte still managed to arrive in style :) On the second day, we drove up to Grand Canyon. It was a day tour. The

Happy 2018!

Happy New Year! First came Christmas, then New Year Day just flew passed. I also finally passed my driving test here in LA. I never thought I could pass as Der was always saying how lousy I was. But I managed to! Well at least I am legal to drive now. So when the time comes, I could if I needed to. Christmas was spent with a group of Singaporeans. It felt good to know other fellow Singaporeans in a foreign country. Feels like I am back in Singapore again when I am surrounded by people who speak in the same accent as me.  Unlike Moscow, the Singaporean community here is not as closely knitted. There are just too many Singaporeans here and the place is too big. We all do not live very close by. Hopefully friendships will blossom and I will make new Singaporean friends like the friends I made in Moscow. New Year eve was not a very exciting day. We spent the last 3 days of 2017 in Las Vegas (it'll be a separate entry) and when we got back, the kiddo fell sick followed by the