Curtis and Monica Gallivanting Abroad

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 go back to San Juan Del Sur for New Years Eve. The four days spent there were great. We did lots more surfing and hanging out at great beaches. For New Years Eve they had ... read more

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 finally able to post pictures so take a look on our last 3 blogs posted. THe last week and half have been very good, mainly because we spent 5 days with Curtis´family! Curtis´sisters wedding was ... read more

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 of us found a great place to stay. The next day we all got up very early(5am), found a tuk tuk driver willing to take us all day around Angkor for a cheap price and ... read more

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 trip was amazing. It started off very if-y as we were told many bad things about the boat trip from the Laos boat organizer. This was all an attempt to get many people to take ... read more

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 pool exercises. It was hard not to be on the beach but it is good to learn new skills. We even had homework at night. Which sucked. But we met some really nice people in ... read more

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 zoo but (we think one stop to soon) the bus driver started kicking everyone of the bus. After walking for a bit we found a information both that told us where to go. So we ... read more