My dear and wonderful son woke up at 2:40am wide awake, ready to play, chatting about cars. Not EXACTLY what I had in mind when I wanted a good night's sleep before our Halong Bay day, Wilder…. At 5:00am, the final patrons are finishing up dinner and the plastic stools and tables are being put away the only remnants of the stand-up restaurants being the litter. Some stalls are beginning to open and prepare vegetables for the breakfast and lunch crowds. Large...

The entire clan was up at 5am after all of us hit the pillows the night before by 6pm. Wilder was awake between 9:30p and 12:30a, which was NOT my favorite. But today he's taken his naps on schedule. He's actually done much better with transition than I was prepared for. We had a delicious breakfast at the hotel consisting of Vietnamese sticky rice, spring rolls, seafood fried rice, a mango pancake, and they also made Wilder a side of scrambled eggs. The stick...

After a quick 3 hour nap, the Choley family all got up and headed to the airport for our 2:10am flight out of town. This is the flight that people cringed about (including me) when I mentioned we were travelling with all three kids. The flight that brought more people than just us anxiety. Fortunately for us, this flight came with the wall attached bassinet row, so for the long 11.5 hour portion of our travel, we had a separate place for Wilder to sleep that w...