April 24, 2015 - Picture Fest (Phuket Holiday, Charlotte's Birthday, ILCM Dinner, Berimbau Workshop)

So I am working a job these days and life is super busy - I woke up at 5:15 this morning to exercise and this blog is kind of taking the hit.  So this will be a photo fest with limited commentary as I have committed 45 minutes to this activity this week.  Yikes, I am so geeky.

We went to Phuket and I realized I really don't need to bring my SLR on vacations like this - unless I decide to take up flora photography.  The Canon S95 is just FINE for this.

Here is our room at the Marriott Vacation Club.  We just bought in too:

The girls love buggy rides:

The JW Marriott Phuket - our first Asian resort love:

Typical Matt phone multi-tasking:

Who doesn't love popsicles?

Char takes our photo:

I love this picture:

Braids in progress:

Not sure Sophia was fully on board with the results - but they were cute nonetheless:

Beach!

Polarized:

Nothing makes our girls happier than manicures!

We spent our last night at Holiday Inn - not bad.  Their kids club was great!

Chatterbox Sophia tells us something important by the beach:

Cool idea - but more bugs than you can imagine:

Sophia scores a ride:

These cubbies are awesome!

Tuesday Apr 14 was Charlotte's birthday - we made a cookie cake the night before.  Char and I wrote out her name which was awesome:

Opening gifts:

At school with her class:

Mom and Grandma:

Ms. Wong and Miss Josephina:

Birthday dinner at the Hard Rock:

Sophia is sad she does not get presents for Charlotte's birthday!

But she gets over it:

Random sunset photo -reminded me of the Endor moon:

Post braid - they took hours to take out!

Char is convinced her hair is longer as a result:

Prepping for the birthday party.  Cookie cake #2 for the week:

Food spread.  I asked everyone to bring fruit since Char claimed to start eating it at 5:

Takeaway swag:

Toilet paper was a surprisingly tasteful touch:

Pass the present to music.  I gave Matt the stink eye for wrapping the gift ONCE.  So we started later so he could wrap them a few more times:

Char loved her bouncy castle cake!

Thanks to Oliver for cutting this for us.  And of course thanks to Veronica for making such a masterpiece!

Char loves this jewelry / nails sticker book:

And that night we went to the Ladies Club ball:

And visited Shrek the next day:

And finally - we did a Berimbau workshop for Capoeira on Sunday.  Many thanks to my morning training buddy Titan for helping me along in this class:

So proud of Justin - first kid out there!