Its a small world

October 14, 2008 (early in the morning) With the end of a four flight we arrived in Hong Kong. It was interesting when we were walking through the airport, they had temperature checks. What this is, is pretty much SARS control. SARS broke out a few years ago and it all started in Asia due to something with chickens. The temperature check does what it's called, it checks your internal body temperature as you are walking by. We saw one girl whose body showed up red while ours showed up blue. Instantly, someone ran over to her and stuck something in her ear (maybe a thermometer?) and did some tests on her. Crazy. We saw one drunk baffoon yelling out loud, trying to make cheesy jokes. When the crowd stopped to stare, he would yell ... read more

August 19-20, 2008 Our last trip to the doctors before taking an overnight bus to Brindisi (nine hour ride). From here, we caught the Ferry to Corfu, Greece (eight hour ride). Long day but, we are getting use to these trips. The warm sea air washed over us, waking us, exciting us for new adventures. Of course, with no sleep from the night bus, we were soon catching some shut eye on the sunny top deck of the ferry. It was no problem that kids were screaming, that Italians were yelling at each other and that the intense heat of the sun beat down on our tired bodies. Nothing could have kept us from sleeping... When we arrived at the hostel, the owners showed us to a table where we were to eat a freeeeee ... read more

July 12, 2008 We have now entered into Scotland and arrived in the city of Edinburgh. This city is very different from its English neighbour. Many of the streets are still mostly cobblestone and instead of using mainly red brick like England, it uses a greyish stone to build their homes and buildings. Due to the type of stones they use, the stones tend to turn dark with age giving the city a dark gothic feel. One of the most famous features of the city is the Edinburgh castle which sits in the center of the city. Even though we wanted to go inside, we have already seen many castle and proabably would be seeing more during the trip. So, we decided to check out the other sites of the city and walk through the ... read more

June 14, 2008 This morning we were up early to make our way into France. We caught the bus and made the four journey into Beziers. The small town so far has a really good and mellow feel to it and that is another reason why we came here. After finding our new digs for thirty euro a night we made our way around town. The majority of people here look to be Arabic and a small percentage of Caucasians, not what we expected but, it never is. The park in the center of town was relly nice and even had a few weddings going on at the same time. THere is more to see here than we expected as well. We have run into the problem of communicating with people as not to many speak ... read more

May 19, 2008 After a 10 hour flight we have now arrived in Portugal. It was pretty cool as it was Henry's first time being in Europe, He thought about this as he walked down the stairs from the airplane and set foot on European soil. The first thoughts of Portugal are very positive, The city of Lisbon is very clean and beautiful with so many street side cafes, old Eurpoean architecture,and even a castle on the mountain top. We have also never seen so many Mercedes Benz, a lot of the taxi cabs are Mercedes as well. We did not do to much today as we are very tired from the flight and the time difference will take some getting used to. We are currently writing this at 4:30am (8:30pm back home). We were both ... read more