Blogs from United States, North America - page 6860

Well... this is my last night here in the states. I just wanted to say "see ya later" to everyone. And also I wanted to thank all my friends and family for giving me such nice send-offs... I really will miss you guys. The hommies in LA took me out for sushi... wonderful. My dad and the family had a nice bbq at the house sat. night before I left for NY the next morning. And C.Tan took me to get some soul food in Harlem... Let me say that you guys don't make it easy to leave home for 7 months. Anyways... wish me luck, stay in touch, and we'll catch up when I return in March. Sincerely, Serkan enjoy the pics.... ... read more

Hi there, I'm writing you now from my new appartment. Finally we moved in and we were all happy about it. Although we had a lot of fun with the guys in our hostel, but it's still something different to have its own appartment. In the 10 days while we were staying at the polynesian beach club hostel (which I can strongly recommend for cheap and nice habitation) we did a lot of activities like BBQ, Trips on a boat and of course... party! YEAHHH!!! I know it may sound a little bit crazy, but now that I moved in the appartment, it feels like vacation is over and reality begins. The only thing is.... it's still reality in paradise. :-) So that's all I can tell you right now. University starts on Tuesday and I'm ... read more

Today was to be our Boston 'Free Day', which meant we would be dropped off in the morning, and then we'd be picked up towards the end of the afternoon, and therefore have lots of time to explore around Boston. To start off with though we were dropped off at the Boston Tea Party Ship, in the Seaport District. Unfortunately, the Boston Tea Party Ship was under renovation, and would not be open to the public until 2006, so that was a big shame as that was on my list of things to tick off. Anyway, we were dropped off, and immediately went on our Boston Old Town Trolley tour. This was already included in our tour, and is a hop on, hop off tour, where we could check out any of the sights along the ... read more

Well today started off quite emotionally, with a sad goodbye "gathering" in one of the rooms where we presented Priska, the greatest tour leader ever with a framed photograph of the group and the crazy Japs read us out a message thanking us for being kind and including them in everything even though they couldn't speak much english. Apparently the 30 second speech took them about 2 hours to translate into perfect english! We were quite a close group. Fortunately for me, 4 girls were joining me on another week's tour starting later today. So then after breakfast we got in the car together as a group for the last time. We headed to the Golden Gate Bridge again, this time to walk over it. Then we drove to the 7 sisters - a group of ... read more

Praise God...we're back home! After 16 days, 15,000 miles, 7 flights, 4 hotel rooms, countless buses, taxis, subways, ferries and restaurants, the Homs have completed their Amazing Race for Sarah. No million dollar prize, but the reward of bringing home a priceless blessing - our baby Boo-Boo, Sarah-Barah, Chik-Fil-A, baby cakes, Princess Beautiful Sparkle, Lai Jing! God's been incredibly generous to us through this process. Formally, it started for us in mid-July of 2004, shortly after Sarah was born, and 13 1/2 months later, the process is complete. She's here! Whoo-hoo! As we mentioned after our flight to Beijing, we just can't sleep on an airplane. Can you imagine just sitting there, praying that your baby won't start throwing a tantrum, looking at your watch and counting down the hours? "OK, that's two hours down, only ... read more