Week 29 ( Jul 16- Jul 22 )

The highlight of the week was Eid-ul-Fitr☪ also known as "Choti Eid". This is one of two Eids we celebrate and comes after fasting for a whole month and therefore highly anticipated. We look forward to eating lots of delicious foods especially desserts. This year Eid fell on a working day so we didn't get to celebrate in the traditional way on the actual day of the Eid. However, we had decided to take a weekend getaway with a group of friends to just relax and enjoy.

We went to the White Mountains in New Hampshire and enjoyed a great time at a family resort. There were lots of activities at the resort and surrounding areas, so the time passed by quickly and we had a memorable time. The White Mountains area is very picturesque and I feel like each season it has something different to offer. I now look forward to the fall season when we will try to go there again and look at the colorful leaves.

The rest of the week went by pretty quickly with our usual activities. There was playgroup, park playdates and a trip to the mall for the day that was too hot. I can't believe after the winter we have had, we are already complaining of the heat.

Here are my photos from the week:

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Eid Mubarak!

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Yummy homemade veggie pancakes

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Flume Gorge hike in New Hampshire

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Feeding the ducks at a lake in New Hampshire

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Being a monkey at the play place with his friend

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The runaway kid at the park

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Artwork during his play group at the school

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Go outside and enjoy the summer activities because it will be over before you know it. Keep reading my blog and thank you for stopping by☺︎

Week 28

This week was all about getting back into the groove, after coming back from our Euro tour. Summer is here in full swing and there is nothing better than that. The days are long and there are so many activities to do. We try to do one fun activity everyday to keep ourselves entertained. 

My birthday also happened to fall during week 28. Once you are older you really don't want to count how old you are, but rather just spend a good time with the people you love the most. I was too tired from our vacation so I decided to have a low key cosy dinner with my loves and be happy.

Here are my photos from the week:

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I love this place, so serene

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Birthday dinner at this French Bistro was like deja vu of our trip a week earlier

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Zain at his best bud's birthday party, enjoying a juice box together

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Somebody stop him!

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Random street art

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Steering clear of trouble is he?

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Coloring fun at home

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my post. Have a great day☉

Week 27

Our Europe vacation continues this week, with a road trip through picturesque Switzerland countryside and southern Germany. From the valleys, to the tops of Alps, the natural beauty is breath taking. I had imagined and seen photos of the places we were planning to visit during my research but I was not prepared for how incredibly beautiful it was in real. A must see area for people who like to travel the world. Here are my photos from this amazing week 27 of the year.

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The beautiful Interlaken region in Switzerland full of incredible mountains and lakes.

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Take a view of Top of Europe from the summit of Birg in Switzerland

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Cruising Lake Lucerne in Switzerland

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The Neuschwanstein Castle in Hohenschwangau, south Germany was the inspiration for Walt Disney's Cinderalla Castle. 

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A day in Zurich, Switzerland

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Back home catching up with friends at a park playdate

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The fun never ends!

We came back from our vacation this week. In some ways it seems too short but in others it seemed too land during which we had seen so many places. We had a great trip over all and for those of you still afraid to travel with your toddlers, I would say ditch the fear and take the leap. I promise, it is worth the trouble ☺︎

Thanks for checking my blog. I will be posting more frequently till I catch up with my weeks. Happy Tuesday!

Week 26

This was hands down the best week of the year for me and my little family. We went on our first international vacation with our toddler and boy did we have fun! 

I have been lucky to have visited a lot of places. When I was younger we lived in Paris for two years but I was only 4 years old and I have very very vague memories of our time there. So although this was my second trip to Paris, I really experienced it as a first. I have a lot of photos from when we lived there and love to look at them. I wanted to make sure we got tons of photos of my son, Zain who is only 19 months, so later when he grows up he will have these photos to relive his first Euro trip with us. We had quite a few stops in our mini Euro vacation. Paris was the starting point. From there we took a train to Brussels, Belgium. Then we took a train from there to Amsterdam, Netherlands. From there we flew to Zurich, Switzerland and then drove to Luzerne. This was all done in this week 26 and it was fantastic. I am going to write about our vacation in detail if I get some time. Right now I am just trying to catch up on my 365 project so here are my photos from Week 26. 

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Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, built eight centuries ago, still stands in all its glory

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Arc de Triomphe in Paris was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 as a tribute to the French army. I tried getting some light trails.

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The Arc de Carrousel is the arch in between the Louvre and the Jardin de Tuileries.

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La Grand Place or De Grote Markt, is an iconic square in Brussels, Belgium

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The night view of typical beautiful Amsterdam buildings along a canal.

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I Amsterdam slogan at the back of Rijksmuseum is also a self portrait. Can you spot me?

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The lovely medieval Kapellbrucke or Chapel Bridge, in Lucerne, Switzerland, is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe

Hope you enjoyed these highlights of our trip. These don't even begin to show the beauty of Europe and how much it has to offer. You must visit yourself and experience the culture to really understand it fully. Keep reading my blog and come back soon for the photos of Week 27. I will be posting them soon.

Week 25

Time to play catch up! I have been MIA for too long but that is only because I was having too much fun. Here are my week 25 photos, before we set out on our amazing Euro tour 2015.

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Just a regular day at the park outside

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Fun times with his best bud at our local farm

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Morning building sessions

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Father's Day started with this

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This is how my days go by; in a blurrrr!

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Some of the things we are packing for Zain to take on the trip

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We love climbing these stairs to go get the mail

Please don't mind my disappearance. I am back for good so keep an eye out for my posts. Hope you enjoyed the photos!

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