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  • The Adventure Begins

    5. mars 2023, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C

    With a Chicago dog 👍

    After a slow and steady weekend, we're all set to head out on our tropical vacation.

    Up first is a stop at the new Delta Sky Club in Chicago, only 4 months old and beautiful. It even comes with a Chicago hot dog bar!

    Only 2 flights separate us from the beaches of the Maldives. Igor seems most excited that I'll finally stop day dreaming of going to the Maldives and asking to plan it as "our next trip" every few months.

    Stay tuned for more sunshine and beachy views ☀️

    Update: we got upgraded to first class and loving it. Feeling extra lucky and super excited for this trip!
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  • Welcome to paradise

    7. mars 2023, Laccadive Sea ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    After many hours of travel, we've made it to the Maldives! It's even better than I imagined.

    Once we passed through customs, we were greeted by the St. Regis staff, who helped us get checked in for our sea plane ride and offered us refreshing towels and water.

    The resort is on one of the farther atolls and required a 45 minute flight. The plane was cute and the views were incredible, so the trip went by quick.

    On arrival we had some coconut water, champagne, and a few little treats awaiting us. Our first night is in a beach villa and the remaining nights we'll be over the water!

    Looking forward to unwinding and enjoying the sunshine.
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  • Spa Day

    8. mars 2023, Maldivene ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    We have had a lovely first few days at the resort. The weather is beautiful and the water is crystal clear!

    Top of the schedule today: relaxing. We started off the day with an amazing breakfast spread, complete with truffled poached eggs, dosa, local fish, and about every other breakfast food you could think of. Oh and of course some prosecco

    Our afternoon has so far consisted of reading on the beach, a quick snorkel for me while Igor napped, and a great visit to the spa. The spa here has a massive sea water jacuzzi which is where we started our massage session, before getting a relaxing full body treatment.

    Tonight we're enjoying our beautiful over water villa and grabbing a late dinner at Cargo, the middle eastern restaurant at the island!
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  • A tiny little tree trying to growFlapping with the birdsStorms a brewing

    Sandbar Excursion

    9. mars 2023, Maldivene ⋅ 🌧 28 °C

    After traveling half way across the world, to one of the most remote places, why stop there?

    Today we boated out to our own private sandbar, equipped with a tuna sandwich (cut into triangles 😍) picnic. After the boat dropped us and the snacks off they gave us an emergency 90s-esque phone, said have fun, and headed back to the resort ~10 minutes away. We were to have the whole sandbar to ourselves for the next 4 hours.

    No worries, we didn't need the burner phone.. my phone got 5G!

    We spent the next few hours marveling at the crystal clear water, meeting the local crabs and birds, snorkeling, reading, and enjoying a nice bottle of Sancerre.

    It was absolutely stunning, you could walk out far in the sand and the water was perfectly refreshing in the warm sun.

    As we wrapped up our 3rd hour and the remaining wine, we noticed a storm quickly approaching our little spec of sand in the middle of the open and very empty sea. Soon enough we were being whipped by sand and desperately tying down the umbrella and protecting the last remaining french fries from an onslaught of rain. All why crying from laughter at the ridiculousness of our situation. As we held things down and onto our rain drenched hats, I sent a quick text to our butler asking for a ride due to the storm. "Would you like a ride now?" our Butler asks! Why yes that'd be lovely, but you know take your time.

    All in all the boat came through just as the storm was wrapping up, right around our normal scheduled departure time. Nice thing is storms here last only a handful of minutes. Igor and I agreed, it truly enhanced the experience and made for an extra memorable experience.
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  • Our little bungalow & bikes
    Pretty close likeness to my snorkeling friendLooking for fish even on landView for our Teppanyaki dinnerEven better view 😍Last breakfast 😢

    Farewell Maldives

    12. mars 2023, Maldivene ⋅ 🌬 27 °C

    What an amazing trip. We had a great time enjoying the sun and ocean these last couple days.

    For our second to last dinner, we enjoyed a Teppanyaki set menu dinner looking out over the sea. Our chef was incredible, and cooked us Wagyu beef, the best fried rice, and seared prawns. Served with delicious aged sake and cocktails, we were quite stuffed by the end of our meal.

    To continue chronicling our food, we enjoyed many free breakfasts during our stay including lobster and crab omelettes, dosa, congee, dumplings, poached eggs, and endless meats, cheeses, and fruit! Oh and free flowing prosecco. 🥂

    We didn't only eat of course, we read, explored the island, spa'd, and I partook in many snorkel trips from our bungalow. On my last snorkel excursion, I spotted a sea turtle and manta ray! A major highlight for me! The turtle hung out in the coral right in front of our villa and let me follow him around for a while. It was incredible! I will miss the daily ocean exploring and swimming with all the colorful fish.

    We wrapped up the trip watching the sunset with some grilled octopus, cooked cod, and lobster (sorry snorkeling buddies 😢). Followed by some star gazing and cocktails.

    As I write this, we are at the airport, waiting for our flight to Singapore. While I'm quite sad to be leaving this dream vacation, I'm glad the travels continue and work is still a few weeks off. And I'm working on daydreaming up my next remote island vacation much to Igors excitement.

    Stay tuned for many tasty food pics!
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  • Back home in Singapore

    12. mars 2023, Singapore ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    Landed at Changi airport around 915 PM - 30 minutes later than expected due to weather and general inefficiencies at the Male airport. However, we managed to get to the Duxton hotel, get checked in and settled, find an ATM (forgot to hit up a ForEx), get dinner at Maxwell hawker centre (wanton mee, oyster bok choy, and dumpling vegetable soup - with a Tiger beer, naturally), and get back to our hotel by 1115. I missed this place so much! Glad to be here with my favorite travel buddy (Danielle, for those not following along). Tomorrow, light breakfast at Amoy St, followed by lunch and dinner/drinks with old friends we haven't seen in a decade. Majulah Singapura!Les mer

  • All the snacks

    15. mars 2023, Singapore ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    We've greatly enjoyed being back in Singapore! And we've taken every possible opportunity to eat and drink delicious things. Which luckily has been paired with a lot more walking than our little island at the start of vacation.

    Top food eats so far:
    Xiao Long Bao - soup dumplings!
    Odette - one of the best restaurants in the world 😍
    Hawker centers - endless snacks
    Lunch at the National Gallery with friends ❤️
    & cocktails at Native with friends ❤️

    Today we've been pretty lazy, mostly reading and hanging out at the hotel, enjoying the included lounge. We rest up for the zoo tomorrow!
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  • See ya Singapore

    17. mars 2023, Singapore

    We had a fantastic last couple of nights in Singapore eating way more than we needed to 😅 but loving every minute.

    Yesterday we got to go to one of my favorite Singapore places - the zoo! We saw all the highlights, including visiting the giraffes multiple times and seeing many animals that reminded us of our pup - so many big ears and big tails to be seen!

    Last night we enjoyed a very tasty dinner at Labyrinth (the first Singaporean food focused restaurant to get a Michelin Star). We in true Sadovyi fashion, ate way too much (with of course the wine pairings) and even after a nights rest we were struggling this morning at the airport. Neither of us were hungry but that didn't stop us from sneaking in one last snack at the airport. Some dumplings :)

    We're en route now to Hanoi, Vietnam for our last leg of our trip. We'll be in the city for one night before going to Ha Long Bay for an overnight excursion, then back to Hanoi proper for a few more nights!
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  • Pho in the making, doesn't look the most appetizing but it was delicious

    First taste of Hanoi

    18. mars 2023, Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    After a quick flight from Singapore (3 hours) we made it to our first stop in Vietnam - the Sofitel Legend Metropole. A really cool, old French hotel, set in Hanoi's old quarter.

    We sprung for the lounge level and we're welcomed with some champagne and a bouquet of roses 🌹

    A pretty chill day followed with a Bahn Mi sandwich and some back alley pho, A+ all around. We'll be back to the city to explore more after our trip to Ha Long Bay!
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