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Well, I am very excited to report that I am writing from the Galapagos islands! It is sooo surreal being here, after studying about evolution and Sir Charles Darwin himself at university... We just finsihed an 8 day boat cruise aboard the Amigo, a cute boat that took us around various islands. It is hard to describe what we have seen because it has just been so amazing, but i will do my best..! We visited several islands (most of the names escape me at the moment so i wont try to list them!) but it was amazing to see how the vegetation and animals varied from island to island dependig on their geographic location. We saw, of course..looots of sealions (i think i have about 100 photos just of them..haha), sea turtles, galapagos penguins, lots ... read more

Hola! Its time I got back to blogging... last time I wrote we were in La Fortuna, with the possibilities of checking out the hot springs and volcanos. Well, we did both of those, which was very cool! We went for a hike through the rainforest (and it was, you guessed it, raining!) and managed to see toucans, white faced monkeys and howler monkeys..we then went to check out valcano Arenal, which was a bit sketchy...there are signs telling you to aim your car at the exit in case there is the need for a mad dash, and there was also a sign that said there was a maximum stay time of 6 minutes but it had been blacked out...apparantly if theh volcano decides to erupt (which it could at any moment!) you only have 9 ... read more

Hello from Hong Kong! Well, actually I lie when I say that as this post is long overdue and we are not actually in Hong Kong anymore...haha, oops. Our stay in Hong Kong was 5 days only (we were there on an extended layover on our way from Vietnam to Costa Rica (where i am now and just had the most insane day filled with white water rafting...but more on that in the next blog!) but we still mananged to do quite a lot, as Hong Kong itself is not that big. Unfortunatley, Kristen was not feeling too well when we first arrived so our first few days were a little quiter, but like I just said, we still managed to do quite a bit! Hong Kong is a series of islands, and we stayed on ... read more

Greetings from Thailand! I apologize for the lack of photos..they will follow soon, I hope! Thailand has been amazing! We arrived in Bangkok almost 2 weeks ago now (hard to believe..!). We spent our first few days in the city of Bangkok, exploring and taking in the culture! The food has been spicy spicy spicy and the shopping has been cheap cheap cheap! Its dangerous, actually...haha..We have "hit up" a few markets since being here...there are stalls by the thousands and it is easy to get lost! It is really funy bartering with the Thai merchants though, and they are really friendly and very funny...a favorite saying is something like..."you like? cheap cheap just for you! special discount!" haha... Kristen and I met up with my boyfriend Pete, who came from Australia, and we also hung ... read more