Hello Everyone! First off, Happy New Year! I know we are late but we have been moving around quite a bit. We hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve and that the New Year is starting off great. After we left Granada we took a very wavy ferry ride to Ometepe Island. An island formed by two volcanoes. We stayed there for 3 days. It was a pretty area with the volcanoes in the background. We did some hiking and relaxing by the lake. The largest lake in Central America. We left there on the 29th becuase we decided to [View Full Entry]

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FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!!!! We want to wish our family and friends a very Merry Christmas!!! We hope that all of you had a great few days and wish that all of you were able to get some days off of work so that the days were spent with family. You were all greatly missed on these days when family and friends are charished most. We have enjoyed our time here at Christmas but it is still not the same. with snow and all...... hehe! But we do sincerely hope that all of you have had a great christmas!!!!!!!! Side note: we were [View Full Entry]

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Hola Everyone! We headed north to the rain forest area in Costa Rica. Where it is very cold and rainy but beautiful. We stayed four days in La Fortuna. A little town beside the Arenal volcano. It is a neat little town where there are lots of adrenaline activities one can participate in. Our adventures began with a volcano hike, in the pursuit to see lava. We had a bit of walk through the forest to get to the viewpoint on the volcano to see lava. Our guide was awesome and could really spot the wildlife. Our first picture in Costa [View Full Entry]

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If I can drive home one point in this blog it would be that getting stuck in the middle of political riots is NOT FUN. In the very least it has been an interesting week or so. First off though, Cambodia was GREAT! We loved the country. It had such an amazing feel to it. After Phnom Penh we headed off to Siem Reap. This was a cool smaller town that mostly consisted of markets, lots of restuarants and guest houses becuase the only reason people come here is to see Angkor Wat. We met another two people and the 4 [View Full Entry]

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Three days ago Curtis and I arrived in Cambodia!! The last week in Vietnam was very exciting and we saw some pretty cool sites. After we got some tailor made clothes for us in HoiAn we ventured off to Na Trang. We climbed aboard another sleeper bus for a semi-sleepless night to the next major city. Although thankfully the sleeper buses have 3 rows of bunk beds so you actually get to lay down. Na Trang is a beach town in Vietnam. We arrived at 6 am, found a hostel and took off to the beach. But the beach was pretty [View Full Entry]

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Hello, and sorry for the long gap between our last blogs. It is hard to find the time and the place to do a blog when the computers are sooooo slow and crash frequently. We cannot believe it has been two weeks since the last blog!! I suppose we just had so much fun in Laos that we could not find time to write although Mom's know we were safe as we both called from Laos. Our last one left off as we were heading into Laos on the slow boat to Luang Prabang. Day one of two of the boat [View Full Entry]

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Today we are leaving to head to the Laos border so we thought we should write about our last week and a half in Thailand. After Koh Phangan we headed to the other island Koh Samui. We rented a scooter for one day and drove around the island, checking out the two famous waterfalls. This was a ton of fun but kinda scary because you have to get used to driving on the other side of the road. One night we actually got to see some Mauy Tai, Thailand kick boxing. It is really popular here. We got to sit two [View Full Entry]

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This past week has had many, many adventures, both good and painful. We safely recieved are passports back Oct 9 and that evening we took the overnight bus to Chumpon where we arrived there at 6 am and then took a boat to Koh Tao. Our first island!!!! It was soooooo cool arriving at the coast. It is absolutely beautiful here! Koh Tao is the diving island. So we shopped around to different resorts and picked one out. That day we started the PADI certification for diving. The next couple days were learning about diving in the classroom and then doing [View Full Entry]

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Hello from the land of heat and humidity! Well after a realativily short plane ride we arrived in Bangkok! The Sri Lanken Airline was actually very good, really yummy food. We heard about the taxi scams in Bangkok and low and behold as soon as we came off the plane there was many people trying to corall us into some sort of taxi ride. But we were smart and lined up for the public transport line. These last few days have been very fun with hiring a Tuk Tuk driver to drive us around for the last two days for not [View Full Entry]

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The last two days here in China has been very exciting with one day venturing out to the Summer Palace and yesturday was our Great Wall day trip. To get to the Summer Palace we decided to take the city bus. Which the girls working at the hostel said it was easy. Ya, it's easy when you can read which stop you are suppose to get off. Getting there was slightly confusing but being only lost once in Beijing for the week is not to bad. We were suppose to take our first bus to the terminal stop close to the [View Full Entry]

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